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Zambia

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

    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.
    PoliticsZambia

    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.
    PoliticsZambia

    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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  • President Edgar Lungu is accused of embarking on a campaign against opposition voices across society. Credit: GCIS.
    PoliticsZambia

    Zambia’s authoritarianism deepens, emboldened by IMF support

    By Nic Cheeseman
    June 19, 2017
    An opposition leader in jail. 48 MPs suspended. A $1.2 billion IMF package on the way. The speaker of Zambia’s National Assembly, Patrick Matibini, ...
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  • PoliticsZambia

    How Zambia’s once insuperable MMD returned to power by disappearing

    By Zenobia Ismail
    February 14, 2017
    Despite dominating Zambian politics for 20 years, the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy was all but wiped out in last year’s legislative elections. But it’s former leaders ...
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  • PoliticsZambia

    Zambia’s disputed elections: on claims of binned ballots and “systematic bias”

    By John Mukela
    August 17, 2016
    Official results say Edgar Lungu scraped the presidential election, but the opposition claims that, through manipulation and fraud, the ruling party “effected a coup on ...
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  • PoliticsZambia

    Humble, mother-loving and God-fearing? How Edgar Lungu won Zambia’s presidential election

    By Phillan Zamchiya
    August 16, 2016
    In over-emphasising economics, analysts may have missed the importance of personality politics. Despite overseeing clear economic decline since taking over as president in January 2015, ...
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