Zambia
Zambia new president sworn in on pledge to repair economy, rights
Zambia's newly elected president Hakainde Hichilema also vowed to restore respect for human rights and liberties eroded under his predecessor.
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Zambian opposition leader takes office in boost for democracy
Hakainde Hichilema, 59, will take the oath of office before a crowd that will notably include opposition politicians from regional countries as well as current and former African leaders.
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Zambia's new president vows 'better' democracy after landslide win
After a campaign dominated by the country's economic woes and marred by sporadic violence, Hichilema garnered 2,810,757 votes against 1,814,201 for the incumbent Lungu in Thursday's election, according to nearly final results.
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Zambia's Lungu concedes defeat to challenger Hichilema
The 64-year-old, who came to power in 2015, said that when he had to serve out the term of his predecessor Michael Sata who died in office, that victory had been "unexpected" and he "accepted it with humility and gratitude".
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Zambia's opposition leader Hichilema wins presidential vote
The 59-year-old veteran opposition politician beat his long-time rival Lungu following a bruising race held against the backdrop of deteriorating standards of living.
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Zambia's Lungu urged to concede as opposition leads in crunch vote
Results from around 40 of the constituencies that have so far reported place the veteran 59-year-old opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema, ahead of Lungu, who is 64.
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Zambia counts votes from close election as army reinforced
Thursday's vote presented a test of democracy in the usually peaceful southern African nation country of more than 17 million people, where rising living costs appear to have diminished support for Lungu, who is accused of growing increasingly iron-fisted since taking office in 2015.
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Debt-ridden Zambia votes in closely contested polls
Sixteen presidential candidates are vying for the top job, but the frontrunners are incumbent Edgar Lungu, 64, and his long-time nemesis Hakainde Hichilema, a business tycoon, who are facing off at the polls for the third time.
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Zambia election campaign focuses on township woes
The UPND, the main rival to the ruling Patriotic Front (PF), is eager to tap into mounting disillusionment in the city's poorest neighbourhoods, where dissent has grown since the last 2016 poll.
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Tension in Zambia ahead of tightly-fought vote
The August 12 ballot is essentially a two-horse race between longstanding adversaries -- President Edgar Lungu, 64, and Hakainde Hichilema, 59, who is making his sixth bid for the top job.
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Zambia president deploys army to quell violence ahead of vote
In several parts of the country, supporters of the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) and the United Party for National Development (UPND) opposition have clashed using machetes, axes, slashers, catapults and other objects. Violence has been reported in the Zambian capital Lusaka as well as Northern, Southern and Muchinga provinces.
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Pandor highlights Kenneth Kaunda's role as educator and public health activist
International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor delivered a tribute during a virtual memorial service on Thursday.
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Kaunda laid to rest at presidential burial site, but family to contest in court
Kenneth Kaunda’s son, Kaweche, said his father’s last wish was to be buried next to his wife Betty but the government said that he could be exhumed later to be reburied there.
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WATCH LIVE: Former Zambian leader Kenneth Kaunda laid to rest
Former Zambian leader Kenneth Kaunda is being laid to rest following his passing last month.
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Zambians give handkerchief salute to fallen statesman Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda always carried a white handkerchief - an item that he said symbolised love and peace, and which he started carrying while incarcerated during the struggle for independence.
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Ramaphosa thanks Kenneth Kaunda for leaving behind a strong Africa
President Cyril Ramaphosa said the standard of leadership that the late former Zambian President left and his ideals would continue to live on.
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‘He was a man of extraordinary empathy’- Ramaphosa lauds Kenneth Kaunda
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa paid tribute to former president of Zambia, Dr Kenneth Kaunda, at his funeral on 2 July 2021. Ramaphosa thanked the late statesman for assisting South Africa during the fight against the apartheid government. Kaunda passed away on 17 June 2021 at the age of 97.
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‘Kenneth Kaunda was crucial in reshaping the Commonwealth’
Tributes were paid to the late Zambian president at his funeral service on Friday.
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MUBANGA LUMPA: Celebrating Kenneth Kaunda, a humanist of Africa
Like all of the continent's greats, Kenneth Kaunda will be remembered as a humanist in Africa who fought for the dignity, justice and equality for the African people, writes Mubanga Lumpa.
