{"id":31280,"date":"2026-04-10T10:10:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31280"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:10:58","slug":"chakwera-in-tanzania-for-commonwealth-diplomatic-mission","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/chakwera-in-tanzania-for-commonwealth-diplomatic-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Chakwera in Tanzania for Commonwealth diplomatic mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-hidden=\"true\"><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);\">Former Malawi President, Dr Lazarus Chakwera, is in Tanzania on a Commonwealth diplomatic mission.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">He arrived on Thursday to begin talks with various stakeholders including government and opposition political party leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">Chakwerawas appointed by the Commonwealth to spearhead peace mediation in Tanzania, following anti-government deadly protests that claimed hundreds of lives, in November of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">The mission comes at a pivotal moment for Tanzania, as disputes following the October 2025 general elections fuel tensions and raise international concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31288,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-31280","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Dr Lazarus Chakwera, is in Tanzania on a Commonwealth mission","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31280","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\/31280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31289,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31280\/revisions\/31289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}