{"id":243336,"date":"2026-09-05T08:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-statement-on-the-detention-of-opposition-figures-including-bishop-trevor-mwamba-in-zambia\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T08:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:50:14","slug":"zambia-statement-on-the-detention-of-opposition-figures-including-bishop-trevor-mwamba-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-statement-on-the-detention-of-opposition-figures-including-bishop-trevor-mwamba-in-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Statement On the Detention of Opposition Figures, Including Bishop Trevor Mwamba, in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Anglican Church of Southern Africa is calling for prayers for Zambia and her people in the wake of the country&#8217;s disputed election, and particularly for healing, reconciliation and unity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">We are deeply disturbed at the detention of a number of opposition figures, including Bishop Trevor Mwamba, the retired Anglican Bishop of Botswana and a Zambian national who now leads Zambia&#8217;s United National Independence Party (UNIP).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">We add our voices to that of the UN Human Rights chief Volker T\u00fcrk, who&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609020118.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church of Southern Africa is calling for prayers for Zambia and her people in the wake of the country&#8217;s disputed election, and particularly for healing, reconciliation and unity. We are deeply disturbed at the detention of a number of opposition figures, including Bishop Trevor Mwamba, the retired Anglican Bishop of Botswana and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":243337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690286:f7c426969fac9b3de760d5982d366708:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,8125,6978,10244,10381,18451,257,5675,254,6065,55351,4709,881],"class_list":["post-243336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bishop","tag-detention","tag-figures","tag-including","tag-mwamba","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statement","tag-trevor","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690286:f7c426969fac9b3de760d5982d366708:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}