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Zambia

Population: 11.9 million
GNI: $7500 million
Debt: $4900 million
Overview: Efforts to restructure the constitution will fall behind schedule and the trial of ex-President Frederick Chiluba will probably falter, but the economy will grow strongly, buoyed by increasing copper production.

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  • Vol 45 No 21
  • 22/10/2004

Proof of the PUDDing

A brand new party is proof of political moves by President and ex-President alike

  • Vol 45 No 20
  • 08/10/2004

Undiplomatic row

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa sacked Vice-President Nevers Mumba on 4 October for igniting a serious diplomatic row. Mumba had accused individuals in Congo-Kinshasa of funding the Zambian opposition.

  • Vol 45 No 17
  • 27/08/2004

Success unseen

Zambia grows richer but people feel poorer and they blame the President

  • Vol 45 No 10
  • 14/05/2004

Presidential prosecutions

Busy days for judges as the President struggles to lock up his predecessor

  • Vol 45 No 3
  • 04/02/2004

Jail to the chief

Personal and political rivalries are helping ex-President Frederick Chiluba's defence

  • Vol 44 No 24
  • 05/12/2003

Chilling out Chiluba

Ex-President Frederick Chiluba faces two trials this month, after his lawyers failed to block the charges against him as 'vindictive and unfair' (AC Vol 44 No 19); they now insist that some of the 165 accusations duplicate one another. In the first case,...

  • Vol 44 No 19
  • 26/09/2003

Watching Big Brother

As politicians fall like ninepins to the Anti-Corruption Task Force, the President turns to TV

  • Vol 44 No 19
  • 26/09/2003

Zamtrop and the politicians

The courts are crowded with politicians and public servants who served under the previous President. Frederick Chiluba himself was arrested on 5 August to face 96 counts of theft by a public servant, allegedly involving over US$40 million. He laughed as t...

  • Vol 44 No 14
  • 11/07/2003

The Fund's no fun

President Levy Mwanawasa's government agreed a budget for 2003 with the International Monetary Fund and overspent it by 612 billion kwacha; the IMF's man in Lusaka, Mark Ellyne, says it therefore will not release the US$100 million conditionally pledged t...

  • Vol 44 No 12
  • 13/06/2003

Sacking the veep

Frayed tempers and shoddy deals lie behind President Mwanawasa's political cull

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