{"id":7830,"date":"2012-03-15T08:15:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T08:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=7830"},"modified":"2012-03-15T08:15:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T08:15:32","slug":"un-looking-forward-to-peaceful-2014-malawi-general-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/15\/un-looking-forward-to-peaceful-2014-malawi-general-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"UN looking forward to peaceful 2014 Malawi general elections."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2014-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7833\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRepresentatives of the United Nations say they are jointly working with other organisations and institutions, including Parliament, to ensure that Malawi holds free and peaceful election in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>UN\u2019s Resident Representative Richard Dictus said at a workshop on dialogue and problem solving in Mangochi on Monday that the 20th July violence had cast a shadow over the road to the 2014 presidential, parliamentary and local government polls.<\/p>\n<p>He described the violence as clear expression of political and social discontent and that if there was no change, the election in 2014 could be marred by violence.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi, according to Dictus, was at a crossroads and require collaborative efforts to promote peace and development to move the country to 2014 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The two day workshop is being attended by representatives of political parties, the media, business, Civil society and Malawi Elector Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives of the United Nations say they are jointly working with other organisations and institutions, including Parliament, to ensure that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[1827,1161,258,470],"class_list":["post-7830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-1827","tag-elections","tag-malawi","tag-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}