Insiders say he hopes to win over senior commanders by giving them luxury homes some of which are being built as part of a US$275 million contract with the Chinese firm AVIC international for 2 350 houses – a project begun under his predecessor Michael Sata but now scaled up...
Lungu came to power in January 2015 in the by-election which followed the death of President Michael Sata and won re-election in a controversial August 2016 poll...
Vol 58 No 25 |
- SECESSIONISM
While in opposition Michael Sata the late populist leader of the Patriotic Front promised to respond to Lozi concerns if he received the community's votes in the 2011 general election...
Fuelled by a hearty Chinese appetite for project finance in Africa an infrastructure development strategy begun under the late Michael Sata has turned into an extravagant spending spree under President Edgar Lungu...
Allies of former President Michael Sata who formed the PF as a breakaway from the Movement for Multi-party Democracy say that under Lungu the change has been so radical it is no longer the same party...
Kambwili trades on the idea that he is a PF loyalist and that others such as Lungu have usurped the party he helped to form with the late President Michael Sata...
A cousin of the late President Michael Sata and one of the Patriotic Front's early backers Kasolo is a mining geologist and a radical nationalist who is said to be determined to fight on...
Kambwili a Bemba speaker who still holds his seat for the Roan constituency on the Copperbelt is an effective grassroots mobiliser who was one of late President Michael Sata's key loyalists and a founding member of the party...
Before President Michael Sata flew abroad for medical treatment he made Lungu then Defence Minister acting President...
Lungu defeated Hichilema by only 27 000 votes in the January 2015 presidential bye-election that followed the death of President Michael Sata...
Campaigning in Mpika homeland of the late President Michael Sata Lungu said he did not care about the international election observers and vowed to 'sort out' opposition supporters if they dispute the election results...
