{"id":35026,"date":"2026-05-21T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35026"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:11:11","slug":"sadc-electoral-council-begins-pre-election-mission-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sadc-electoral-council-begins-pre-election-mission-in-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"SADC electoral council begins pre-election mission in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern African Development Community&#8217;s (SADC) Electoral Advisory Council (SEAC) is in Zambia to conduct pre-election consultations with key stakeholders ahead of the country&#8217;s general election scheduled for August 13, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The goodwill mission is led by Ambassador Joseph Nourrice of Seychelles and Dr Leonard Sesa of Botswana, with support from officials from the SADC Secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, the delegation will engage with government representatives, political parties, civil society organisations and election experts to assess the country&#8217;s preparedness for the polls and gather views on the electoral environment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mission forms part of SADC&#8217;s standard election observation process and is conducted in line with the revised SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections. Under these guidelines, SEAC is mandated to undertake a pre-election assessment goodwill mission in member states preparing to hold general elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13672,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35026","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"SADC Electoral Advisory Council is in Zambia to conduct pre-election consultations","published_date":"2026-05-21 11:06:30","news_description":"SADC Electoral Advisory Council is in Zambia to conduct pre-election consultations","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35026","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\/35026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35027,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35026\/revisions\/35027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}