{"id":3245,"date":"2014-06-27T11:44:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T04:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2014-06-27T11:44:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T04:44:32","slug":"zambias-president-in-israel-for-medical-treatments-israeli-officials-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambias-president-in-israel-for-medical-treatments-israeli-officials-confirm\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia&#8217;s president in Israel for medical treatments, Israeli officials confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president of Zambia is in Israel for medical treatment, Israeli officials confirm, in contrast to statements by the government in Lusaka that Michael Sata is on a &#8220;working visit&#8221; at the invitation of Israeli President Shimon Peres.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors have been circulating Lusaka for some time that Sata is ill, possibly suffering from cancer. Yesterday the website Zambian Watchdog reported that far from his visit to Israel being a &#8220;working&#8221; meeting between the presidents, he was hallucinating the day before his flight to Tel Aviv and may even have reached the state of Israel last Friday unconscious&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zambia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/diplomacy-defense\/1.601372\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 president of Zambia is in Israel for medical treatment, Israeli officials confirm, in contrast to statements by the government in Lusaka that Michael Sata is on a &#8220;working visit&#8221; at the invitation of Israeli President Shimon Peres. Rumors have been circulating Lusaka for some time that Sata is ill, possibly suffering from cancer. Yesterday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,1743,987,1744,994,257,1742,254,4693,4709,881],"class_list":["post-3245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-hallucinating","tag-lusaka","tag-medical-treatments","tag-michael-sata","tag-news","tag-president-of-zambia-is-in-israel-for-medical-treatment","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}