They were not told of any issues until 8 days before the event, this week, after talking to government officials since 2024.
What would your “fallback” be, eight days out? Very curious.
Change the physical conference into a virtual one, this way it respects the speakers, allow people to mingle and ideas to flourish.
It's no replacement for an in-person conference, but this approach is better than straight up cancelling everything.
Fallback would be doing
> What the government wanted from us in order to lift the postponement
They weren’t told of any issues because there weren’t any issues until the Chinese government started applying pressure to Zambia.