{"id":29210,"date":"2022-08-18T20:42:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T20:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilema-set-to-officially-open-parliament"},"modified":"2022-08-18T21:03:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T21:03:25","slug":"president-hichilema-set-to-officially-open-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilema-set-to-officially-open-parliament","title":{"rendered":"President Hichilema set to officially open parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>President Hakainde Hichilema is on Friday, September 9th, 2022 set to officially open the second session of the Thirteenth Parliament. This is according to a press statement made available to the media in yesterday by acting Clerk of the National Assembly, Roy Ngulube.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Clerk of the National Assembly wishes to inform the public that the President of the Republic of Zambia, His Excellency Mr Hakainde Hichilema will officially open the Second Session of the Thirteenth National Assembly on Friday 9t September 2022,\u201d read the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Ngulube stated that only a modest number of officials and dignitaries will be invited while the majority of stakeholders and diplomats will follow the proceedings remotely. He explained that the restriction on invited guests have been necessitated by the Covid-19 which has not been completely abated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn view of the Corona Virus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic which has not completely abated, invitations to the Official Opening have been restricted to comply with the Ministry of Health Guidelines aimed at safeguarding the health and wellbeing of the Zambian public,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this regard, only a modest number of officials and dignitaries will be invited while the majority of stakeholders and diplomats who are usually invited to attend the Ceremonial opening of Parliament will observe the proceedings remotely,\u201d said the acting Clerk of National Assembly.<\/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. President Hakainde Hichilema is on Friday, September 9th, 2022 set to officially open the second session of the Thirteenth Parliament. This is according to a press statement made available to the media in yesterday by acting Clerk of the National Assembly, Roy Ngulube. \u201cThe Clerk of the National Assembly wishes to inform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":29209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-29210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","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>President Hichilema set to officially open parliament - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Hakainde Hichilema is on Friday, September 9th, 2022 set to officially open the second session of the Thirteen ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilema-set-to-officially-open-parliament\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President Hichilema set to officially open parliament\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Hakainde Hichilema is on Friday, September 9th, 2022 set to officially open the second session of the Thirteen ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilema-set-to-officially-open-parliament\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-18T20:42:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-18T21:03:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_1-62fea8d157ea8.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1004\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilema-set-to-officially-open-parliament#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilema-set-to-officially-open-parliament\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"President Hichilema set to officially open parliament\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-18T20:42:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-18T21:03:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilema-set-to-officially-open-parliament\"},\"wordCount\":235,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilema-set-to-officially-open-parliament#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_1-62fea8d157ea8.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilema-set-to-officially-open-parliament#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilema-set-to-officially-open-parliament\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilema-set-to-officially-open-parliament\",\"name\":\"President Hichilema set to officially open parliament - 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