{"id":1328,"date":"2025-08-06T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.grz.gov.zm\/zanis\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2025-08-06T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:05:52","slug":"mansa-sugar-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"Mansa sugar catches fire&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An inferno has swept through Mansa sugar plantation in Fikombo area in Chembe district resulting in the destruction of 32\u00a0hectares of the plantation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Luapula Province Police Commanding Officer, Mwaka Yuyi has confirmed the incident to ZANIS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Yuyi disclosed that the incident occurred between August 1st around 14:00 hours and August 2nd around 06:00 hours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He added that the bush fire was started by unknown people in the nearby bush in the Fikombo area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe fire became wild and later migrated into the sugar plantation and efforts to try and quench the fire proved futile as it\u00a0was too rampant to be contained. As a result, 32 hectares of the sugar\u00a0farm was destroyed,\u201d Mr Yuyi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inferno has swept through Mansa sugar plantation in Fikombo area in Chembe district resulting in the destruction of 32\u00a0hectares of the plantation. &nbsp; Luapula Province Police Commanding Officer, Mwaka Yuyi has confirmed the incident to ZANIS. &nbsp; Mr Yuyi disclosed that the incident occurred between August 1st around 14:00 hours and August 2nd around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local","category-onlyzanis","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}