{"id":4391,"date":"2026-06-01T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4391"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:26:50","slug":"aspiring-kanchibiya-councillor-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4391","title":{"rendered":"Aspiring Kanchibiya Councillor dies&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">KANCHIBIYA District has been plunged into mourning following the death of the United Party for National Development (UPND) aspiring candidate for Lubaleshi Ward, Evans Chileshe, who died in a road traffic accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Mr Chileshe is reported to have died after the motorbike he was riding was involved in a collision with a vehicle near the Danger Hill area in Mpika district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And UPND aspiring Member of Parliament for Lwitikila Constituency, Joan Kambe, in expressing her condolences, has described the death as a devastating blow to the party and the local community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;We have just concluded the nomination process and we never expected such a tragic turn of events. Mr Chileshe was a man with a heart for the people and had a deep-seated desire to serve his ward,&#8221; Ms Kambe said.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANCHIBIYA District has been plunged into mourning following the death of the United Party for National Development (UPND) aspiring candidate for Lubaleshi Ward, Evans Chileshe, who died in a road traffic accident. Mr Chileshe is reported to have died after the motorbike he was riding was involved in a collision with a vehicle near the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4393,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions\/4393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}