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Zambia: President Lungu, Hichilema Meet After Opposition Leader’s Victory

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 11:00:48 +0000

Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu and President-elect Hakainde Hichilema met on Monday, hours after the opposition leader won the presidential election. Once the Electoral Commission Chairman, Esau Chulu declared Hichilema winner, supporters across the nation went into a frenzy. The forthcoming inauguration would be the third time power has shifted from a ruling party to an [...]

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Zambia Election: Opposition Leader Hichilema Defeats President Lungu

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 21:00:54 +0000

Zambia opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema has won the presidential election by a landslide. The Electoral Commission released the results on Monday at the capital Lusaka. Hichilema got 2,810,777 votes against President Edgar Lungu 1,814,201, with all but one of the 156 constituencies counted. “I, therefore, declare Hichilema to be President of Zambia”, Esau Chulu, the [...]

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Zambia’s Presidential Election Set To Hold In August 2016

Kunle Atiba — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 11:32:03 +0000

Zambia will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on August 11 under a new constitution, a government spokesman has said. President Edgar Lungu’s is expected to assent to the constitutional amendments on Tuesday, ratifying the election date, his spokesman Amos Chanda said on Monday. “The new constitution has a fixed election date and that will take [...]

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Zambia’s President seeks God’s help as Currency Freefalls

AMA — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:25:42 +0000

Zambia leader Edgar Lungu has turned to God in a bid to stop the freefall of his country’s ailing currency, with bars shut and football matches cancelled on a national day of prayer to end a record slump. Lungu ordered the prayer session last month after the kwacha fell 45 percent against the dollar since [...]

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