{"id":26212,"date":"2022-07-08T22:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T22:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/activist-cleopas-phiri-dies"},"modified":"2022-07-08T22:32:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T22:32:27","slug":"activist-cleopas-phiri-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/activist-cleopas-phiri-dies","title":{"rendered":"Activist Cleopas Phiri dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Political and Good Governance Activist Cleopas Phiri has died. He died Monday night after he collapsed at his home in Lusaka. His death was confirmed by the Leadership Conferences Foundation(LCF) where he served as Director.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Foundation National Coordinator Gautama Tayana Nyerere said he has learnt with deep sorrow of the untimely passing of Mr. Phiri. \u201cMr. Phiri was instrumental in the activities of the Foundation established to promote national dialogue and leadership matters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish to extend our deepest condolences to his spouse Mrs. Lumbiwe Njobvu Phiri and to his entire family over this sad and sudden loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. Political and Good Governance Activist Cleopas Phiri has died. He died Monday night after he collapsed at his home in Lusaka. His death was confirmed by the Leadership Conferences Foundation(LCF) where he served as Director. In a statement, Foundation National Coordinator Gautama Tayana Nyerere said he has learnt with deep sorrow of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":26211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,25,8,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-26212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-featured","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Activist Cleopas Phiri dies - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Political and Good Governance Activist Cleopas Phiri has died. 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