{"id":70455,"date":"2018-10-17T10:54:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T08:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=70455"},"modified":"2018-10-17T10:54:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T08:54:41","slug":"joyce-banda-special-guest-speaker-at-elite-continental-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/10\/17\/joyce-banda-special-guest-speaker-at-elite-continental-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce Banda special guest speaker at elite continental forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mabvuto Banda: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Joyce-Banda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17504\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Joyce-Banda-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Joyce-Banda-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Joyce-Banda-610x332.jpg 610w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Joyce-Banda.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Former president Joyce Banda is in Liberia, where she is a special guest-of-honour speaker among the continent\u2019s elite at the International <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheroesforum.com\/home.cfm\">Sheroes<\/a> Forum.<\/p>\n<p>The forum is a knowledge-sharing and networking event that brings together female leaders who have registered achievements<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheroesforum.com\/events\/?CFID=9281517&amp;CFTOKEN=6789872e56be5036-0B836894-5056-A839-9B46F4EED61A3201\"> forum meeting<\/a>, to be held under the theme \u2018Advancing Women\u2019s Participation in Leadership\u2019, was formed to ensure action and spark innovative ideas to help drive gender equality in society.<\/p>\n<p>President of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, Liberian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-liberia-election\/ex-soccer-star-king-george-weah-wins-liberias-presidency-idUSKBN1EM1NR\">George Weah<\/a> and former president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as well as former Zimbabwe vice president Joyce Mujuru are among those who will speak.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian president is, like Banda, also a special guest of honour while Weah will make a keynote speech.<\/p>\n<p>Sheroes partnered the Joyce Banda Foundation three years ago to push for gender equality among other causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Banda: Former president Joyce Banda is in Liberia, where she is a special guest-of-honour speaker among the continent\u2019s elite at the International Sheroes Forum. The forum is a knowledge-sharing and networking event that brings together female leaders who have registered achievements The forum meeting, to be held under the theme \u2018Advancing Women\u2019s Participation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70460,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70455\/revisions\/70460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}