{"id":247774,"date":"2026-10-22T01:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-zambias-poisoned-children-have-waited-long-enough-africa-needs-to-act\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T01:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:30:26","slug":"africa-zambias-poisoned-children-have-waited-long-enough-africa-needs-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-zambias-poisoned-children-have-waited-long-enough-africa-needs-to-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Zambia&#8217;s Poisoned Children Have Waited Long Enough. Africa Needs to Act."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em>African Union child rights body considers landmark complaint against Zambia<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">For generations, children in Kabwe, Zambia, have grown up in the shadow of a toxic legacy. They have played on contaminated soil, breathed dangerous dust, and faced threats to their health and development from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2025\/03\/05\/poisonous-profit\/lead-waste-mining-and-childrens-right-healthy-environment-kabwe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">one of the world&#8217;s most lead-polluted places<\/a>. Their suffering is the consequence of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/sites\/default\/files\/report_pdf\/zambia0819_web_0.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">decades of inadequate environmental protection<\/a>, insufficient corporate accountability, and government failure to address a public&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610210560.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>African Union child rights body considers landmark complaint against Zambia For generations, children in Kabwe, Zambia, have grown up in the shadow of a toxic legacy. They have played on contaminated soil, breathed dangerous dust, and faced threats to their health and development from one of the world&#8217;s most lead-polluted places. Their suffering is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":247775,"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":[6991,258,256,7371,9190,257,19362,254,55684,881,8982],"class_list":["post-247774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-act","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-children","tag-long","tag-news","tag-poisoned","tag-south-africa-today","tag-waited","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambias"],"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\/247774","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=247774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}