{"id":38578,"date":"2026-07-02T10:45:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38578"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:45:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:45:38","slug":"zambia-poll-campaign-marred-by-violence","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zambia-poll-campaign-marred-by-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia poll campaign marred by violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The campaigns intensifying ahead of Zambia&#8217;s general election on August 13, concerns are growing over a surge in political violence.<\/p>\n<div id=\"x_aboveBlackLine\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Two people have been killed in separate incidents that police have classified as politically motivated murders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The violence has prompted warnings from both the police and President Hakainde Hichilema, who have called for calm and urged political parties to campaign peacefully.<\/p>\n<p>With August 13, poll campaigns heating up, violence is equally taking centre stage across the country.<\/p>\n<p>On June 29, 2026, two people were killed in different parts of Zambia in what police have confirmed to be electoral violence murder cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13882,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-38578","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Campaigns intensifying ahead of Zambia's general election","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38578","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\/38578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38588,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38578\/revisions\/38588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}