{"id":243449,"date":"2026-09-06T08:52:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T06:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/malawi-chaponda-atupele-celebrate-zambia-ties-as-hichilema-begins-second-term\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:52:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T06:52:47","slug":"malawi-chaponda-atupele-celebrate-zambia-ties-as-hichilema-begins-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/malawi-chaponda-atupele-celebrate-zambia-ties-as-hichilema-begins-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi: Chaponda, Atupele Celebrate Zambia Ties As Hichilema Begins Second Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation George Chaponda says Malawi and Zambia need to preserve and build on their long-standing bilateral relations, as he represented President Peter Mutharika at the inauguration of Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\">Speaking at the ceremony, Chaponda point<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">ed to the deep historical roots of the relationship between the two countries, insisting there was a clear need for continued cooperation moving forward. &#8220;It is important that both&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609020111.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>Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation George Chaponda says Malawi and Zambia need to preserve and build on their long-standing bilateral relations, as he represented President Peter Mutharika at the inauguration of Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema. Speaking at the ceremony, Chaponda point ed to the deep historical roots of the relationship between the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":243450,"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":[258,256,55361,8082,8824,55360,6976,5028,257,254,7557,7051,4709,881],"class_list":["post-243449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atupele","tag-begins","tag-celebrate","tag-chaponda","tag-hichilema","tag-malawi","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term","tag-ties","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\/243449","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=243449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}