{"id":5685,"date":"2015-07-03T03:46:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T20:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5685"},"modified":"2015-07-03T03:46:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T20:46:08","slug":"obama-will-not-be-meeting-mugabe-on-his-last-official-visit-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/obama-will-not-be-meeting-mugabe-on-his-last-official-visit-to-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama will not be meeting Mugabe on his last official visit to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

United States President Barack Obama will not be meeting President Robert Mugabe on his last official visit to Africa this month despite his itinerary including a visit to the African Union (AU) headquarters.<\/p>\n

Mugabe is the AU chairman and has made it a point to attend every high-level event involving the continental body since he landed the post in January. He also chairs SADC.<\/p>\n

Mugabe has made over 15 trips since his return from annual leave in January. Last Thursday he travelled to Mozambique for that country\u2019s 40th independence celebrations.<\/p>\n

Obama is scheduled to visit Kenya and Ethiopia later this month, where he will tour the AU headquarters and meet the secretariat.<\/p>\n

But Foreign Affairs secretary Joey Bimha told NewsDay yesterday that the government had not \u201creceived any indication\u201d from Obama that he would want to meet Mugabe during his visit…<\/p>\n

Read More – NewsDay<\/a><\/p>\n

South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

United States President Barack Obama will not be meeting President Robert Mugabe on his last official visit to Africa this month despite his itinerary including a visit to the African Union (AU) headquarters. Mugabe is the AU chairman and has made it a point to attend every high-level event involving the continental body since he […]<\/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":[248],"tags":[258,256,580,714,427,257,4564,254,4693,4686,421],"class_list":["post-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-union","tag-au","tag-mugabe","tag-news","tag-obama","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685","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=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/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=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}