{"id":23721,"date":"2026-02-13T09:32:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/un-secretary-general-calls-on-african-leader-to-push-for-transformation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:29","slug":"un-secretary-general-calls-on-african-leader-to-push-for-transformation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/un-secretary-general-calls-on-african-leader-to-push-for-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Secretary General calls on African leader to push for transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called on African leaders to push for the transformation of the multilateral system.<\/div>\n<div>\nSpeaking exclusively to South African Broadcasting Corporation News in Addis Ababa.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Guterres\u00a0whose term ends at the end of 2026, says Africa must have a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Guterres will deliver his final address at the African Union Heads of State Summit in the Ethiopian capital on Saturday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12546,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-23721","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":"Guterres calls on African leaders to push for the transformation of the multilateral system","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23721","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\/23721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26606,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23721\/revisions\/26606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}