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Zambia
Population:	13.2 mn.
GDP:	16.2 bn.
Debt:	1.1 bn.
Overview:	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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Found 102 articles.

Vol 42 No 18
14th September 2001

Puppet or prince?

The ruling MMD's new flagbearer seems too close to Chiluba and too far from the voters

Vol 42 No 15
27th July 2001

Post-summit blues

Everything is going wrong for President Chiluba's renewed bid for a third term

Vol 42 No 14
13th July 2001

Anglo accused

Activists are challenging Anglo American's role in the messy copper privatisation

Vol 42 No 13
29th June 2001

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
18th May 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
20th April 2001

The cock crows

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

Vol 42 No 8
20th April 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
23rd March 2001

Third time unlucky

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

Vol 41 No 24
8th December 2000

A longer presidency

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

Vol 41 No 20
13th October 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.

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