{"id":494,"date":"2011-08-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/zambias-president-rupiah-banda-in-parentage-row\/"},"modified":"2016-07-01T12:03:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T12:03:21","slug":"zambias-president-rupiah-banda-in-parentage-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/zambias-president-rupiah-banda-in-parentage-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia\u2019s President Rupiah Banda in parentage row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Zambia&#8217;s opposition has taken court action to declare the president ineligible for office because his father was allegedly a foreigner.<\/p>\n<p>Zambia&#8217;s constitution says both parents of a presidential candidate must be citizens by birth or descent.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriotic Front (PF) party alleges that President Banda&#8217;s father was born in neighbouring Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Banda&#8217;s allies say he is a true Zambian and will contest upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p>Read on BBC website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-14423538\">Zambia\u2019s President Rupiah Banda in parentage row<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zambia&#8217;s opposition has taken court action to declare the president ineligible for office because his father was allegedly a foreigner. Zambia&#8217;s constitution says both parents of a presidential candidate must be citizens by birth or descent. The Patriotic Front (PF) party alleges that President Banda&#8217;s father was born in neighbouring Malawi. Mr Banda&#8217;s allies say [&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-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-southern-africa","region-zambia","type-news-articles","item-year-489","item-theme-nationality-and-elections","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3331,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/3331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}