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Zambia
Population: 13.2 mn.
GDP: 16.2 bn.
Debt: 1.1 bn.
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President Michael Sata will use his anti-corruption drive to silence the MMD, now in opposition. He will battle to honour his commitment to higher pay, especially in the copper mines. The MMD will replace leader and former president Rupiah Banda.

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  • Vol 52 No 23
  •  18th November 2011

Doubts about Sata’s zeal arise

Two dubious appointments raise questions about whether the new President will be as hard on corruption as he promised

  • Vol 52 No 21
  •  21st October 2011

The President starts purging

After his presidential victory, long-time oppositionist Michael Sata is sacking his predecessor’s key officials in the name of clean government

  • Vol 52 No 21
  •  21st October 2011

A Scott in office

Most onlookers perceive Michael Sata as the Patriotic Front and the PF as Sata. Most also acknowledge the pivotal role Guy Scott has played in Sata’s rise to power. He is the intellectual force behind the new President and, before his promotion to the par...

  • Vol 52 No 21
  •  21st October 2011

How Banda got bounced

A party insider told us how the President’s team fouled up his expected election victory

  • Vol 52 No 20
  •  7th October 2011

Troubled exit for Banda

Sata owes victory to the fear of a return to rampant corruption; he must also thank those who persuaded Banda not to rig the election

  • Vol 52 No 19
  •  23rd September 2011

Too little, too late

The President’s promise to fight corruption after the elections seems to have convinced neither diplomats nor voters

  • Vol 52 No 16
  •  5th August 2011

A vote about money

Largesse from the copper boom rather than good policies boosts the President’s chances in next month’s polls

  • Vol 52 No 16
  •  5th August 2011

Some Banda backers exit

In the last two months, some high-profile Movement for Multiparty Democracy personalities, including close friends of President Rupiah Banda’s, have crossed over to Michael Sata’s Patriotic Front (PF).

  • Vol 52 No 12
  •  10th June 2011

Banda brothers on the attack

President Banda remains favourite to win the elections but the ructions caused by his sons’ activism are chipping away at that margin of victory

  • Vol 52 No 12
  •  10th June 2011

Sata rises in the west

The electoral fortunes of Michael Sata are improving, in what has become a two-horse presidential race. The conventional wisdom had been that Sata could not defeat President Rupiah Banda unless he was the joint nominee of his Patriotic Front (PF) and the ...

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