ZANU PF has dismissed reports indicating it was working against Zambia’s newly elected president, Hakainde Hichilema. This comes after Hichilema’s United Party for National Development (UPND) party last week accused Zanu PF of launching cyber-attacks against its leadership, which it says could sour relations between the two neighbours. However, in a statement Sunday, Zanu PF […]
Lusaka, Zambia — Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema will make his first trip outside the country since winning last month’s elections by attending the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, his office said Saturday. The Zambian leader will attend the UN General Assembly to be held in New York, the United States, from Sept. 20 to 25, […]
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 the polls on 12 August to vote in presidential, parliamentary, and local government elections. By the time the final results were announced in the early hours of 16 August, it was […]
THE level of financial illegality which allegedly went on during the immediate past government administration seems to have been unprecedented. It seems any basic investigations into any field would reveal huge scandals or anomalies which have also seemingly continued. It is high time entities like the Anti-Corruption Commission, the Drug Enforcement Commission and the like […]
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 that ruling parties will always be able to successfully manipulate elections. The opposition leader didn’t just defeat the incumbent but won with 59% to Edgar Lungu’s 38.7%. It is […]
Newly-elected Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema announced he would be making major changes to the police and military authorities, fulfilling one of his major campaign promises just one week after taking office. “I am relieving all commissioners of police with immediate effect,” he said in a televised address to the nation on Sunday. He also posted […]
Cape Town — Newly elected President Hakainde Hichilema fired Zambia Police Service Inspector General Kakoma Kanganja and all service chiefs and their deputies barely a week after his inauguration. Yesterday Hichilema announced the appointment of new army and airforce chiefs, as well as a new head of the southern African country’s defence wing. “I am relieving […]
ENHANCING cooperation on the Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) and Tanzania Zambia Crude Oil Pipeline (TAZAMA) topped the discussion between President Samia Suluhu Hassan and newly-elected Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema. The two leaders met in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka on Tuesday shortly after President Hichilema took oath of office, following his landslide victory in the recent […]
President Hage Geingob has hailed Zambia’s democracy, saying the people gave the newly elected leadership a strong mandate to steer the country to greater heights. Geingob yesterday attended the swearing-in of Zambia’s newly elected president Hakainde Hichilema. Hichilema was inaugurated in Lusaka at a ceremony that was also attended by the leader of the official […]
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba threw all decorum and etiquette expected of him out the window hours before new Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema was inaugurated Tuesday, calling him a sellout. At the time President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Charamba were in Zambia Monday and Tuesday for Hichilema’s inauguration. Charamba’s onslaught was in response to a Twitter post […]
Lusaka — New Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema took office on Tuesday, 12 days after defeating incumbent Edgar Lungu in a general election. VOA’s Peter Clottey sat down with Hichilema before Tuesday’s inauguration to discuss goals for his five-year term. Hichilema covered a wide range of topics and promised to improve a poor economy, defend human […]
The election victory of Zambia’s newly inaugurated President Hakainde Hichilema is a boon for democracy in southern Africa. But he faces the monumental task of rebuilding confidence in Zambia’s democracy and economy. Hakainde Hichilema ran for president five times before winning this year. Popularly known as “HH” or “Bally”, a slang term for for “father,” […]
Zambia’s newly-elected president, Hakainde Hichilema, is sworn into office Tuesday, after defeating the incumbent Edgar Lungu by almost a million votes in a election marked by restricted campaigning and suspected vote rigging. Hichilema will take the oath of office before a crowd of current and former African leaders, along with opposition politicians from countries in […]
Opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says the recently held elections in neighbouring Zambia have shown that Africa as a continent is capable of running credible elections. He was speaking in an interview with the South African Broadcasting Corporation Monday ahead of the inauguration this Tuesday of Zambia’s new president, Hakainde Hichilema. “It has reminded us […]
Kudakwashe Mugari — President Mnangagwa leaves Zimbabwe today to join other Heads of State at the inauguration of new Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema in Lusaka tomorrow. President-elect Hichilema won the recent Zambian presidential election, beating former President Edgar Lungu by almost one million votes. He garnered 2 810 757 votes, while Mr Lungu trailed with […]
A female breast cancer survival has urged both men and women to regularly go for cancer screening. The cancer survivor also appealed to Government to ensure that cancer drugs are in constant supply in the health facilities. Breast cancer patient Nyemba Mwalukanga of Lusaka urged both men and women to take advantage of the hospitals […]
Hakainde Hichilema’s election victory is the third time an opposition leader has unseated an incumbent president in Zambia since 1991. The victory bequeaths on the new president and his party, the United Party for National Development (UPND), the immense task of restoring the rule of law, fixing the ailing economy and uniting a divided nation. […]
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 Lungu conceded defeat and congratulated Hakainde Hichilema on a remarkable victory. In the election five days earlier, the long-time opposition leader had won in a landslide, defeating the incumbent […]