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President-elect Hakainde Hichilema (C) waves at supporters after a press briefing at his residence in Lusaka, on 16 August 2021. Zambian business tycoon and veteran opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema scored a landslide victory in bitterly-contested presidential elections. Picture: Patrick Meinhardt/AFP

Zambia

Zambia's Hichilema urged to walk the talk after 'slow' start

By AFP

While in his first 100 days in office Hichilema had reassured investors, he has been seen to drag his feet on promises to fight corruption and reduce poverty,...

  • FILE: Eskom's group executive for transmission Segomoco Scheppers was part of a media conference to explain the recent outages on Tuesday. Picture: Pexels

    Eskom: Recent outages caused by network tripping between Zim, Zambia

    Earlier this week, the utility confirmed that a major incident occurred in Zambia affecting the entire Southern African network as power is imported from Cahora Bassa.

    199 days ago
  • FILE: Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema. Picture: Twitter.

    New Zambian leader reappoints central bank chief axed by predecessor

    President Hakainde Hichilema handed Denny Kalyalya his old job, a year after the former World Bank executive director was removed with no reason given.

    241 days ago
  • President-elect Hakainde Hichilema (C) waves at supporters after a press briefing at his residence in Lusaka, on 16 August 2021. Zambian business tycoon and veteran opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema scored a landslide victory in bitterly-contested presidential elections. Picture: Patrick Meinhardt/AFP

    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.

    276 days ago
  • President-elect Hakainde Hichilema (C) waves at supporters after a press briefing at his residence in Lusaka, on 16 August 2021. Zambian business tycoon and veteran opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema scored a landslide victory in bitterly-contested presidential elections. Picture: Patrick Meinhardt/AFP

    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.

    276 days ago
  • President-elect Hakainde Hichilema (C) waves at supporters after a press briefing at his residence in Lusaka, on 16 August 2021. Zambian business tycoon and veteran opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema scored a landslide victory in bitterly-contested presidential elections. Picture: Patrick Meinhardt/AFP

    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.

    283 days ago
  • FILE: Zambian President Edgar Chagwa Lungu. Picture: AFP

    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".

    284 days ago
  • FILE: Hakainde Hichilema. Picture: AFP

    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.

    285 days ago
  • FILE: Zambian President Edgar Lungu. Picture: United Nations Photo.

    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.

    285 days ago
  • A polling station official empties a box full of ballots at the end of the vote at the Matero Secondary School in Lusaka, on 12 August 2021. After 12 hours of voting, polling stations started closing at 6 pm (1600 GMT) with several hundred still in queues waiting to cast ballots. The closely fought presidential election is seen as a test of the country's democratic credentials after a campaign dominated by economic woes and a debt crisis. Picture: AFP

    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.

    287 days ago
  • A woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Lusaka on 12 August 2021 as Zambians elect their next president after a tense campaign dominated by economic woes in Africa's first coronavirus-era sovereign defaulting country. Picture: Patrick Meinhardt/AFP

    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.

    288 days ago
  • Supporters of the ruling Patriotic Front of the incumbent President Edgar Lungu wave a flag showing a portrait of Lungu during a campaign parade in Lusaka, on 10 August 2021. Zambians will decide on 12 August 2021, whether to re-elect President Edgar Lungu after the country's worst economic performance in decades and a crackdown on dissent that has raised fears of unrest in the southern African country. Picture: Patrick Meinhardt/AFP

    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.

    289 days ago
  • FILE: Zambian President Edgar Lungu. Picture: United Nations Photo.

    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.

    296 days ago
  • FILE: Zambian President Edgar Lungu. Picture: United Nations Photo.

    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.

    298 days ago
  • In this file photo taken on August 17, 2010 Former and first Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda delivers a speech during the closing ceremony of the 30th Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Windhoek, Namibia. Picture: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP

    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.

    323 days ago
  • The funeral cortage carrying the body of the late Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda arrives at the state memorial service for him in Lusaka on 2 July 2021. Picture: AFP.

    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.

    324 days ago
  • In this file photo taken on August 17, 2010 Former and first Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda delivers a speech during the closing ceremony of the 30th Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Windhoek, Namibia. Picture: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP

    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.

    324 days ago
  • The funeral cortage carrying the body of the late Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda arrives at the state memorial service for him in Lusaka on 2 July 2021. Picture: AFP.

    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.

    329 days ago
  • FILE: President Cyril Ramaphosa paid tribute to late former Zambia President Kenneth Kaunda. Picture: GCIS

    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.

    329 days ago
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