{"id":20957,"date":"2018-12-07T08:38:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T08:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=20957"},"modified":"2018-12-08T08:40:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T08:40:56","slug":"some-parts-of-malawi-declared-to-belong-to-zambia-minister-urges-people-not-to-change-nationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/some-parts-of-malawi-declared-to-belong-to-zambia-minister-urges-people-not-to-change-nationality\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Parts of Malawi Declared to Belong to Zambia: Minister Urges People not to Change Nationality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite class=\"byline\">By Wanga Gwede<\/cite><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Parts of Mchinji, Mzimba, Kasungu and Rumphi districts have been declared to belong to Zambia during the border re-demarcation exercise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Jean Kalilani told Parliament in a ministerial statement that the physical demarcation of border lines started on a pilot basis in 1993 and boundary inspections have been carried since then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Kalilani advised Malawians residing in the affected areas against changing their nationalities from Malawi to Zambia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Minister said the government of Zambia and Malawi had agreed that until a new border treaty come into effect, local people should remain where they were before the demarcation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Read further:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201812070597.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201812070597.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Wanga Gwede Parts of Mchinji, Mzimba, Kasungu and Rumphi districts have been declared to belong to Zambia during the border re-demarcation exercise. Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Jean Kalilani told Parliament in a ministerial statement that the physical demarcation of border lines started on a pilot basis in 1993 and boundary inspections [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-malawi","region-zambia","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-border-changes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20958,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20957\/revisions\/20958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}