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Zambia

  • President Edgar Lungu (centre, in light blue) has been in office since 2015. Credit: WorldFish.
    Editor's PicksPoliticsZambia

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

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    November 19, 2019
    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 ...
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    Insiders Insight: Huawei accused of helping governments spy

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    August 20, 2019
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  • Zambia 2021: President Edgar Lungu (centre). Credit: GCIS.
    Editor's PicksPoliticsZambia

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

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    December 4, 2018
    If President Lungu is deemed eligible to run for a third term, he will have removed one more hurdle to extending his rule. He ...
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  • A Chinese teacher giving a lesson to young Tanzanian students. Credit: Claire van den Heever.
    SocietyTanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe

    “It started as hype”: Chinese spreads fast in Africa as language of success

    By Claire van den Heever
    June 25, 2018
    Meet some of the growing group of Africans lining up to learn Chinese. Soon after being named Entrepreneur of the Year in Zimbabwe’s equivalent ...
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  • Zambia's President Edgar Lungu has been in power since 2015. Credit: GCIS.
    PoliticsTop storyZambia

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

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    April 3, 2018
    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 ...
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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.
    PoliticsTop storyZambia

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

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    November 7, 2017
    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 ...
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  • President Edgar Lungu at the UN in September 2017. Credit: UN Photo/Ariana Lindquist.
    PoliticsZambia

    Zambia eroding: Four ongoing trends to be worried about

    By Love Calissendorff, Johan Brosché & Kristine Höglund
    October 19, 2017
    Many of Zambia’s structures and norms are being gradually undermined. The release of Zambia’s main opposition leader in August was greeted by some observers ...
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  • Zambia's President Edgar Lungu.
    Editor's PicksPoliticsZambia

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

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    September 19, 2017
    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 ...
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  • Zambia President Edgar Lungu. Credit: GCIS.
    PoliticsZambia

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

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    August 10, 2017
    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 ...
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  • President Edgar Lungu (left) with the expelled Chishimba Kambwili (right).
    PoliticsZambia

    Zambia: Lungu’s authoritarianism now turns to opponents within

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    July 26, 2017
    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 ...
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