Sishuwa Sishuwa, Author at African Arguments

President Edgar Lungu (centre, in light blue) has been in office since 2015. Credit: WorldFish.

Zambia: The plan to remove President Lungu, from within his own party

Some in the ruling Patriotic Front have rallied behind the president. Others have developed a four-point plan to get rid of him. On 8 November, President ...

Zambia 2021: President Edgar Lungu (centre). Credit: GCIS.

Step by inevitable step: Lungu’s strategic march to 2021 and beyond

If President Lungu is deemed eligible to run for a third term, he will have removed one more hurdle to extending his rule. He has plans ...

Zambia's President Edgar Lungu has been in power since 2015. Credit: GCIS.

Politics Top story Zambia

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April 3, 2018

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Zambia’s opposition knows impeachment will fail. So what’s its game?

The opposition’s new strategy to keep questions over President Lungu’s legitimacy in the spotlight just might work. On 23 March, Zambia’s main opposition party filed a ...

President Edgar Lungu has warned the Constitutional Court of its impending decision on his eligibility to run in 2021. Credit: Edgar Chagwa Lungu.

Politics Top story Zambia

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November 7, 2017

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Zambia: Lungu’s state capture is so complete he barely needs to pretend

Why President Lungu’s threats to the judiciary mark a new phase in Zambia’s slide to authoritarianism. When Kenya’s Supreme Court judges annulled the results of the ...

The real reasons Zambia’s opposition leader was released from jail

The Commonwealth’s intervention did not rescue Hichilema from detention. It rescued President Lungu from political embarrassment. On 16 August, Zambia’s main opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema, walked ...

Zambia President Edgar Lungu. Credit: GCIS.

Politics Zambia

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August 10, 2017

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Zambia: Lungu attacks law body but dictatorship remains out of reach

The well-respected Law Association of Zambia is the latest target of President Lungu’s increasing authoritarianism. Where is this heading? On 5 July, Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu ...

President Edgar Lungu (left) with the expelled Chishimba Kambwili (right).

Politics Zambia

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July 26, 2017

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Zambia: Lungu’s authoritarianism now turns to opponents within

The ruling Patriotic Front’s expulsion of one of its founding members paves the way for President Lungu to be its presidential candidate. But they’d be wrong ...

Politics Zambia

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Zambia’s 2016 elections: is a disputed outcome now inevitable?

A flurry of questionable decisions by the electoral body, media exposés of irregularities, and controversial interventions by the government and military suggests yes Zambia’s enviable record of 25 ...