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  • President Hakainde Hichilema visiting the IMF in New York in September 2022. Credit: IMF Photo/Kim Haughton.
    PoliticsTop storyZambia
    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    December 16, 2022
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    Why Zambia’s president is adored abroad but a disappointment at home

    Since coming to power in 2021, Hichilema has enthusiastically courted the approval of the West, often at Zambia’s expense. Despite his lack of significant domestic achievements ...
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  • President Hakainde Hichilema giving a speech at the European Parliament in June 2022. Credit: European Parliament.
    Editor's PicksPoliticsZambia
    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    August 24, 2022
    388
    2

    An assessment of President Hichilema’s first year in Zambia

    The new president came to power promising widespread change. A year on, his supporters see him as a saviour, his critics as an abject failure. Nothing ...
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  • President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia meeting supporters. Credit: Hakainde Hichilema/Facebook.
    Editor's PicksPoliticsZambia
    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    March 22, 2022
    757
    4

    Zambia’s democracy is still under attack

    But now by President Hichilema, the man who vowed to rescue it. When Hakainde Hichilema won Zambia’s August 2021 election, many hoped the assault on democracy ...
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  • President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia at COP26. Credit: Doug Peters/ UK Government.
    PoliticsTop storyZambia
    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    December 2, 2021
    1742
    0

    The good, the bad and the alarming: Hichilema’s first 100 days in Zambia

    The new president’s first 100 days have seen a combination of promising steps and worrying tendencies. Today marks exactly 100 days since Hakainde Hichilema was inaugurated ...
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  • President Hakainde Hichilema won last month's elections in a landslide against incumbent Edgar Lungu. Credit: UPND/facebook.
    PoliticsTop storyZambia
    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    September 17, 2021
    1457
    0

    Should Zambia’s new president fire all his predecessor’s appointees?

    Many are clamouring for President Hichilema to remove senior officials appointed by Lungu. These demands are understandable but misguided.  The last few days have seen mounting ...
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  • Zambia election observer meeting
    PoliticsTop storyZambia
    By Robert Macdonald
    September 7, 2021
    1594
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    How election observers facilitated Zambia’s smooth change of power

    Thousands of monitors, a PVT and behind-the-scenes diplomacy played a key role, yet questions about the future of observation remain. Zambian voters went to the polls ...
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  • President Hichilema (left) of Zambia with his newly-appointed Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane. Credit: Hakainde Hichilema.
    PoliticsZambia
    By Neo Simutanyi
    September 2, 2021
    1355
    0

    Zambia: The three key challenges facing the hopeful new president

    President Hichilema came to power on a raft of big promises. None will be straightforward to fulfil.  Hakainde Hichilema’s recent landslide victory in Zambia confounded expectations ...
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  • Outgoing President Edgar Lungu with president-elect Hichilema days after the election in Zambia.
    PoliticsZambia
    By Sishuwa Sishuwa & Nic Cheeseman
    August 22, 2021
    2071
    9

    Three lessons for Africa from Zambia’s landslide opposition victory

    How did voters, the opposition and civil society manage to defeat an entrenched and repressive regime? Zambia has done it again. On 17 August, President Edgar ...
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  • Main opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema on the campaign trail ahead of Zambia's elections on 12 August. Credit: UPND.
    PoliticsZambia
    By Neo Simutanyi
    August 9, 2021
    1720
    7

    Zambia’s 2021 elections: unfree, unfair, unpredictable

    Much about the upcoming election is reminiscent of the 2016 race. Will the result be too? On 12 August 2021, Zambians go to the polls to ...
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  • Zambia elections President Edgar Lungu of Zambia giving a speech in 2016. Credit: Paul Kagame.
    PoliticsZambia
    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    August 8, 2021
    3494
    26

    Zambia: In a fair election, Lungu can’t win. In an unfair one, he can’t lose

    The incumbent is deeply unpopular, but he has a range of strategies up his sleeve that he is hoping will allow him to hang on to ...
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