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Zambia

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  • President Hakainde Hichilema visiting the IMF in New York in September 2022. Credit: IMF Photo/Kim Haughton.
    PoliticsTop storyZambia

    Why Zambia’s president is adored abroad but a disappointment at home

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    December 16, 2022
    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 ...
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  • Mary Phiri prepares a maize porridge, known locally as nshima, at her home in Rufunsa, Zambia, on July 18, 2022. It is her only meal of the day before she takes her antiretroviral medication for HIV. Credit: Prudence Phiri/GPJ.
    GPJSocietyZambia

    Medicine helps their HIV. Hunger makes it hard to take

    By Prudence Phiri
    September 27, 2022
    Poor harvests and pandemic-related hardships mean many Zambians living with HIV aren’t getting proper nutrition, putting them at even greater risk. Mary Phiri walks ...
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  • President Hakainde Hichilema giving a speech at the European Parliament in June 2022. Credit: European Parliament.
    Editor's PicksPoliticsZambia

    An assessment of President Hichilema’s first year in Zambia

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    August 24, 2022
    The new president came to power promising widespread change. A year on, his supporters see him as a saviour, his critics as an abject ...
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  • President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia meeting supporters. Credit: Hakainde Hichilema/Facebook.
    Editor's PicksPoliticsZambia

    Zambia’s democracy is still under attack

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    March 22, 2022
    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 ...
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  • President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia at COP26. Credit: Doug Peters/ UK Government.
    PoliticsTop storyZambia

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

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    December 2, 2021
    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 ...
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  • President Hakainde Hichilema won last month's elections in a landslide against incumbent Edgar Lungu. Credit: UPND/facebook.
    PoliticsTop storyZambia

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

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    September 17, 2021
    Many are clamouring for President Hichilema to remove senior officials appointed by Lungu. These demands are understandable but misguided.  The last few days have ...
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  • Zambia election observer meeting
    PoliticsTop storyZambia

    How election observers facilitated Zambia’s smooth change of power

    By Robert Macdonald
    September 7, 2021
    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 ...
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  • President Hichilema (left) of Zambia with his newly-appointed Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane. Credit: Hakainde Hichilema.
    PoliticsZambia

    Zambia: The three key challenges facing the hopeful new president

    By Neo Simutanyi
    September 2, 2021
    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 ...
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  • Outgoing President Edgar Lungu with president-elect Hichilema days after the election in Zambia.
    PoliticsZambia

    Three lessons for Africa from Zambia’s landslide opposition victory

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa & Nic Cheeseman
    August 22, 2021
    How did voters, the opposition and civil society manage to defeat an entrenched and repressive regime? Zambia has done it again. On 17 August, ...
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  • Main opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema on the campaign trail ahead of Zambia's elections on 12 August. Credit: UPND.
    PoliticsZambia

    Zambia’s 2021 elections: unfree, unfair, unpredictable

    By Neo Simutanyi
    August 9, 2021
    Much about the upcoming election is reminiscent of the 2016 race. Will the result be too? On 12 August 2021, Zambians go to the ...
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