{"id":247285,"date":"2026-10-16T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-charge-cokers-remarks-at-the-peace-corps-zambia-documentary-launch\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T04:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:00:24","slug":"zambia-charge-cokers-remarks-at-the-peace-corps-zambia-documentary-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-charge-cokers-remarks-at-the-peace-corps-zambia-documentary-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Charg\u00e9 Coker&#8217;s Remarks At the Peace Corps Zambia Documentary Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>U.S. Embassy Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires, a.i., Mich Coker&#8217;s Remarks<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><em>U.S. Peace Corps Zambia Documentary Launch<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><em>Chief of Mission Residence Lusaka, Zambia<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><em>(As prepared for delivery)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\">Good evening, and welcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">It is an honor to open our doors tonight for a film that belongs, in the truest sense, to two peoples: the people of Zambia and the people of the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">When Peace Corps Volunteers first arrived in Zambia in 1994, they entered&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610150329.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>U.S. Embassy Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires, a.i., Mich Coker&#8217;s Remarks U.S. Peace Corps Zambia Documentary Launch Chief of Mission Residence Lusaka, Zambia (As prepared for delivery) Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines Good evening, and welcome. It is an honor to open our doors tonight for a film that belongs, in the truest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":247286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,5211,55651,13450,9785,5741,257,6157,9469,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-247285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-charge","tag-cokers","tag-corps","tag-documentary","tag-launch","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-remarks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247285","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=247285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}