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Zambia: The three key challenges facing the hopeful new president
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 confounded expectations ... -
Three lessons for Africa from Zambia’s landslide opposition victory
How did voters, the opposition and civil society manage to defeat an entrenched and repressive regime? Zambia has done it again. On 17 August, President Edgar ... -
Zambia’s 2021 elections: unfree, unfair, unpredictable
Much about the upcoming election is reminiscent of the 2016 race. Will the result be too? On 12 August 2021, Zambians go to the polls to ... -
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 ... -
HH: “Zambians want change…We don’t count how many times we run”
An interview with Zambia’s opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema on why Zambians should vote for him at a sixth time of asking. When Zambians go to the ... -
Irony and panic as Zambia’s authoritarianism turns to intellectuals
When an academic warned of eroding democracy, the state tried to prove him wrong. It now seems happy to prove him right if it can shut ... -
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’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 ... -
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 ... -
Zambia eroding: Four ongoing trends to be worried about
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 as a ...