{"id":58598,"date":"2026-08-13T13:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/zambians-voting-as-president-bids-for-second-term\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:26:14","slug":"zambians-voting-as-president-bids-for-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/zambians-voting-as-president-bids-for-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambians voting as president bids for second term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mwiche Nalupumbwe, 26, was among hundreds who braved the morning chill to queue at polling stations well before they opened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Zambians are frustrated and this election is a 50-50, that is why we are all here early to make the change,&#8221; he told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I voted for HH because he cares about us,&#8221; James Phiri, a 29-year-old student at the University of Zambia, told the Reuters news agency, using a common nickname for the president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Things are better after he re-introduced meal allowances,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5yr8r04edvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mwiche Nalupumbwe, 26, was among hundreds who braved the morning chill to queue at polling stations well before they opened. &#8220;Zambians are frustrated and this election is a 50-50, that is why we are all here early to make the change,&#8221; he told the AFP news agency. &#8220;I voted for HH because he cares about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58600,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58598\/revisions\/58600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}