{"id":25761,"date":"2021-08-12T10:07:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T07:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=25761"},"modified":"2021-08-12T10:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T07:15:54","slug":"zambians-vote-in-high-stakes-general-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/12\/zambians-vote-in-high-stakes-general-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambians Vote In High-Stakes General Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Millions of Zambians are voting on Thursday in presidential and presidential elections, held against a backdrop of deteriorating economic conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police and troops have been deployed across the country to monitor polling stations and a record number of international observers will be monitoring the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Edgar Lungu is seeking a second term but faces a strong challenge from Hakainde Hichilema, the candidate for Zambia&#8217;s main opposition party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vote is seen as a high-stakes election, with Zambia&#8217;s predominantly young electorate demanding improvements to the economic situation and better job opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Electoral Commission of Zambia has promised a transparent and credible process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Zambians are voting on Thursday in presidential and presidential elections, held against a backdrop of deteriorating economic conditions. Police and troops have been deployed across the country to monitor polling stations and a record number of international observers will be monitoring the process. President Edgar Lungu is seeking a second term but faces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":25763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[31,6634,762],"class_list":["post-25761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-featured","tag-president-edgar-lungu","tag-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25764,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25761\/revisions\/25764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}