{"id":8639,"date":"2012-04-10T21:21:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T21:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=8639"},"modified":"2012-04-10T21:21:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T21:21:06","slug":"the-first-female-president-in-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/10\/the-first-female-president-in-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"The first female president in Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/joyce_banda_com.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/joyce_banda_com-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"joyce_banda_com\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8641\" \/><\/a>Joyce Banda, women\u2019s rights activist and Malawi\u2019s vice president, became the first female president Saturday when she was sworn in following the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika in the nation\u2019s capital, Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi was given the news of the president\u2019s death several days after he died, according to the article. Banda had fallen out with Mutharika in 2010, which raised questions about her succession among some. After being expelled from her party, the Democratic Progressive Party, for refusing to support Mutharika\u2019s decision to prepare his brother for succession, Banda formed her own party, the People\u2019s Party, while she remained vice president, according to BBC News.<\/p>\n<p>Banda has been a longtime women\u2019s rights activist, organizing around women\u2019s empowerment in Malawi. In January, she marked with Malawian women, calling for the end to street violence on women. She also founded the Young Women Leaders Network and the Joyce Banda Foundation, an organization that supports young girls, many of whom are HIV positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce Banda, women\u2019s rights activist and Malawi\u2019s vice president, became the first female president Saturday when she was sworn in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[2022,466,953,526,886],"class_list":["post-8639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peoples-party-2","tag-first-female-president","tag-joyce-banda","tag-pp","tag-president","tag-president-banda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8639","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=8639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8639\/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=8639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}