{"id":15082,"date":"2025-11-12T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/mediation-team-withdraw-from-assisting-both-zambian-government-lungu-family\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:26","slug":"mediation-team-withdraw-from-assisting-both-zambian-government-lungu-family","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/mediation-team-withdraw-from-assisting-both-zambian-government-lungu-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediation team withdraw from assisting both Zambian government, Lungu family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The former President of Malawi Dr Bakili Muluzi who was leading a team that was trying to mediate between the Zambian government and Edgar Lungu&#8217;s family, which would have led to Lungu&#8217;s body being repatriated to Lusaka has announced that the mediation team will not continue.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Muluzi has thanked all stakeholders in the matter including religious leaders and the South African government for supporting efforts to get an agreement on the reparation of Lungu&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p>The mediation team has withdrawn from the mediation process due to the inability to reach a conclusive pathway forward.<\/p>\n<p>Muluzi says the mediation is formally returning the matter to the family, Zambian people, Zambian government and other stakeholders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15083,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-15082","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Zambian mediation team will not continue assisting","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19472,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15082\/revisions\/19472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}