{"id":9462,"date":"2012-04-23T09:48:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T09:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=9462"},"modified":"2012-04-23T09:48:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T09:48:14","slug":"kibaki-arrives-in-malawi-for-bingu-wa-mutharikas%c2%b7burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/23\/kibaki-arrives-in-malawi-for-bingu-wa-mutharikas%c2%b7burial\/","title":{"rendered":"Kibaki Arrives in Malawi for Bingu wa Mutharika&#8217;s\u00b7Burial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> President Mwai Kibaki arrived in Malawi this evening for the burial of former President of Malawi the late Ngwazi  Prof. Bingu wa Mutharika which will take place tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The plane carrying President Kibaki and his entourage touched down at Chileka International Airport at 3.30pm local time.<div id=\"attachment_9465\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/president-mwai-kibaki.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9465\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/president-mwai-kibaki.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"president-mwai-kibaki\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9465\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Malawi<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>President Kibaki will be among other Heads of State and government who will pay their last respect to the fallen leader in a ceremony that will also be attended by the late President`s successor, President Joyce Banda.<\/p>\n<p>The late Bingu wa Mutharika suffered a cardiac arrest at State House Lilongwe on April 5, 2012 and was confirmed dead the same day.<\/p>\n<p>The late Mutharika will be laid to rest at Mpumulo wa Bata Mausoleum in his Ndata farm in Thyolo district about 30km from Blantyre.<\/p>\n<p>The President was received by senior Government officials of Malawi and Kenya`s High Commissioner to Zambia and Malawi Ambassador Dr. Kipyego Cheluget. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Mwai Kibaki arrived in Malawi this evening for the burial of former President of Malawi the late Ngwazi Prof. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2194],"tags":[300,2198,466,2199,258],"class_list":["post-9462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state-funeral","tag-bingu-wa-mutharika","tag-chileka-international-airport","tag-joyce-banda","tag-mwai-kibaki","tag-malawi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462","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=9462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462\/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=9462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}