{"id":46524,"date":"2023-08-06T19:26:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T19:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/best-performing-president-yet-zambians-grapple-with-hunger-high-prices-of-electricity-fuel-food-sishuwa-sishuwa"},"modified":"2023-08-06T19:33:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T19:33:19","slug":"best-performing-president-yet-zambians-grapple-with-hunger-high-prices-of-electricity-fuel-food-sishuwa-sishuwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/best-performing-president-yet-zambians-grapple-with-hunger-high-prices-of-electricity-fuel-food-sishuwa-sishuwa","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBest performing president, yet Zambians grapple with hunger, high prices of electricity, fuel, food\u201d- Sishuwa Sishuwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Best performing president, yet Zambians grapple with hunger, high prices of electricity, fuel, food, writes Sishuwa Sishuwa<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBest performing president\u201d (according to Washington) with a \u201cbest performing government\u201d (according to Situmbeko Musokotwane) and a \u201cprize wining finance minister\u201d (according to London) while ordinary Zambians grapple with hunger, high prices of electricity, fuel, rent and food, and as their government continues to create excellent conditions for the foreign extraction of minerals and foreign debt repayment.<\/p>\n<p>It is apparent that Hichilema can do no wrong in the eyes of his overseas supporters and some foreign representatives in Zambia. Anything can be blamed on the legacy of the PF and Lungu!<\/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. Best performing president, yet Zambians grapple with hunger, high prices of electricity, fuel, food, writes Sishuwa Sishuwa \u201cBest performing president\u201d (according to Washington) with a \u201cbest performing government\u201d (according to Situmbeko Musokotwane) and a \u201cprize wining finance minister\u201d (according to London) while ordinary Zambians grapple with hunger, high prices of electricity, fuel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-46524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","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>\u201cBest performing president, yet Zambians grapple with hunger, high prices of electricity, fuel, food\u201d- Sishuwa Sishuwa - 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