{"id":8538,"date":"2012-04-07T14:20:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=8538"},"modified":"2012-04-07T14:20:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T14:20:43","slug":"vice-president-joyce-banda-to-be-sworn-in-shortly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/07\/vice-president-joyce-banda-to-be-sworn-in-shortly\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice-President Joyce Banda to Be Sworn in Shortly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Red-Carpet-Parliament.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Red-Carpet-Parliament.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Red Carpet Parliament\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8541\" \/><\/a>Malawi&#8217;s capital city, Lilongwe, is awash with anticipation. Malawi is about to have a new Head of State and Government. The Chief Justice, Redson Munro, will in less than one hour swear Vice-President Joyce Banda as the country&#8217;s President at the New Parliament Building in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>The function was scheduled to start at 2 pm, but their have been some delays including the the Chief justice&#8217;s Robe that was forgetten in Blantyre. However, Banda gets sworn in in less than one hour time. She will become Malawi&#8217;s first female president, and Africa&#8217;s second. The only other country with a female president is Liberia.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi\u2019s Vice-President Joyce Banda made a bid to take control of the country on Saturday, announcing the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika and calling a Cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi media reported that the Office of the President and Cabinet issued a statement officially confirming Mutharika\u2019s death, declaring 10 days\u2019 mourning and saying the constitution would be strictly complied with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi&#8217;s capital city, Lilongwe, is awash with anticipation. Malawi is about to have a new Head of State and Government. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[525,2003,2004,258],"class_list":["post-8538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peoples-party-2","tag-bingu","tag-joyce-banda-says-she-is-in-charge","tag-malawi-presidential-death-and-sucession","tag-malawi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538","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=8538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/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=8538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}