{"id":41109,"date":"2026-07-30T13:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41109"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:06:16","slug":"zambia-receives-election-ballot-papers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zambia-receives-election-ballot-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia receives election ballot papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Zambia has started receiving ballot papers for the August General Election from the United Arab Emirates&#8217; city of Dubai, where the Southern African nation has been printing from.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Meanwhile preparations for the election on the ground is going but with a number of concerns ranging from withdrawal of validly nominated candidates, claims of unfair electoral practice to continued scenes of violence countrywide<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\n<p>About 8.7 million registered voters are expected to exercise their rights this August, 202 of the total 387 pallets have arrived in Lusaka while the rest will come on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Stakeholders, led by the Electoral Commission of Zambia Chairperson, Mwangala Zaloumis, have been at hand receiving the election instruments and Zaloumis expresses optimistic the country will hold a credible election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This process has not been short of incidences such as accusation, concerns and complaints among them suspicious withdrawals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The country has seen a number of validly nominated candidates, including a Presidential candidate, Xavier Chungu, who has been incarcerated before Campaigns began, withdraw and pull out of the race despite them appearing the ballot paper, a matter Gideon Musonda of Advocates for Democratic Governance Foundation says may cause invalid votes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13882,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-41109","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Zambia has started receiving ballot papers","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41109","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41114,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41109\/revisions\/41114"}],"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=41109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}