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Author: Sishuwa Sishuwa

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Sishuwa Sishuwa

Sishuwa Sishuwa is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa at the University of Cape Town and a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Zambia.

  • 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
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    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
    751
    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
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    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
    1453
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    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 elections President Edgar Lungu of Zambia giving a speech in 2016. Credit: Paul Kagame.
    PoliticsZambia
    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    August 8, 2021
    3484
    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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  • President Edgar Lungu (centre, in light blue) has been in office since 2015. Credit: WorldFish.
    PoliticsZambia
    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    November 19, 2019
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    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 ...
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  • Zambia 2021: President Edgar Lungu (centre). Credit: GCIS.
    PoliticsZambia
    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    December 4, 2018
    5022
    5

    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 ...
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  • Zambia's President Edgar Lungu has been in power since 2015. Credit: GCIS.
    PoliticsZambia
    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    April 3, 2018
    5948
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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 ...
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  • President Edgar Lungu has warned the Constitutional Court of its impending decision on his eligibility to run in 2021. Credit: Edgar Chagwa Lungu.
    PoliticsZambia
    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    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 ...
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