{"id":5407,"date":"2014-10-29T20:01:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T13:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5407"},"modified":"2014-10-29T20:01:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T13:01:22","slug":"zambian-president-michael-sata-dies-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambian-president-michael-sata-dies-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambian President Michael Sata dies in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zambian President Michael Sata has died in London, where he had been receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness, the government said.<\/p>\n

Roland Msiska, secretary to the Zambian cabinet, said in a statement on Wednesday that Sata died late on Tuesday in London, where he was being treated.<\/p>\n

“As you are aware the president was receiving medical attention in London,” Msiska told state television.<\/p>\n

“The head of state passed on October 28. President Sata’s demise is deeply regretted. The nation will be kept informed on burial arrangements.”<\/p>\n

Msiska said Sata’s wife, Christine Kaseba, and other family members were with the 77-year-old president when he died.<\/p>\n

An official told Al Jazeera that the death had been announced to the cabinet on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

Sata had left Zambia for medical treatment on October 19 accompanied by his wife and family members, according to a brief government statement that gave no further details…<\/p>\n

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Zambian President Michael Sata has died in London, where he had been receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness, the government said. Roland Msiska, secretary to the Zambian cabinet, said in a statement on Wednesday that Sata died late on Tuesday in London, where he was being treated. “As you are aware the president was receiving […]<\/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":[258,256,4237,994,257,993,4235,254,4693,4709,881,4236],"class_list":["post-5407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-christine-kaseba","tag-michael-sata","tag-news","tag-president-michael-sata","tag-sata-has-died-in-london","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambian-cabinet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407","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=5407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/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=5407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}