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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 42 No 13
  • 29/06/2001

Too many defects

Having failed to secure an unconstitutional third term (AC Vol 42 No 10), President Frederick Chiluba lacks a successor since he sacked the former front-runners from his ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy.

  • Vol 42 No 10
  • 18/05/2001

Disbelief

President Frederick Chiluba has sworn that he will not after all seek the unconstitutional third term that he worked so hard to win. On 8 May he reaffirmed: 'I am not going to stand. I want to make it clear, clear and clear... that there is no third term....

  • Vol 42 No 8
  • 20/04/2001

The cock crows

Opposition to President Chiluba's term is growing by the day

  • Vol 42 No 8
  • 20/04/2001

The two-is-enough group

Fifteen senior members of the governing MMD's National Executive Committee publicly oppose Chiluba's bid for a third term...

  • Vol 42 No 6
  • 23/03/2001

Third time unlucky

The President's plan to stand again divides the nation and his party

  • Vol 41 No 24
  • 08/12/2000

A longer presidency

Chiluba says he prefers prophecy to presidency but not everyone believes it

  • Vol 41 No 20
  • 13/10/2000

Laying off hands

Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, healer and exorcist in Rome for 18 years, has been silently sacked as Vatican Special Delegate to the Pontifical Commission for Migration and Tourism.

  • Vol 41 No 17
  • 01/09/2000

Copper politics

Long-delayed and undersold, the bungled mines privitisation will have consequences

  • Vol 41 No 16
  • 04/08/2000

Copper quarrels

Government and business still argue despite the long awaited copper sell-off

  • Vol 41 No 15
  • 21/07/2000

Cash yes, reform?

Promises of dollops of money at the Consultative Group meeting in Lusaka on 16-18 July (AC Vol 41 No 14) dispelled fears that Finance Minister Katele Kalumba was about to be axed. The cash could also strengthen Zambia's few reformers.

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