Vol 45 No 10 | ZAMBIA Presidential prosecutions 14th May 2004 Busy days for judges as the President struggles to lock up his predecessor The two main suspects in President Levy Mwanawasa's anti-corruption campaign have gone missing. Former intelligence chief Xavier Chungu and former Ambassador Attan Shansonga have left the country, frustrating...
Vol 45 No 3 | ZAMBIA Jail to the chief 4th February 2004 Personal and political rivalries are helping ex-President Frederick Chiluba's defence Zambia's constitution provides that the Director of Public Prosecutions cannot be sacked or removed from office until his conduct has been investigated by a tribunal of judges. So...
Vol 44 No 24 | ZAMBIA Chilling out Chiluba 5th December 2003 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...
Vol 44 No 19 | ZAMBIA Watching Big Brother 26th September 2003 As politicians fall like ninepins to the Anti-Corruption Task Force, the President turns to TV When Cherise Makubale beat eleven contestants this month in Big Brother Africa, an international 'reality television' show avidly followed in Zambia, President Levy Mwanawasa immediately appointed her a...
Vol 44 No 19 | ZAMBIA Zamtrop and the politicians 26th September 2003 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...
Vol 44 No 14 | ZAMBIA The Fund's no fun 11th July 2003 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,...
Vol 44 No 12 | ZAMBIA Sacking the veep 13th June 2003 Frayed tempers and shoddy deals lie behind President Mwanawasa's political cull In an unexpected reshuffle on 28 May, President Levy Mwanawasa sacked Vice-President Enock Kavindele, long-time friend and Finance Minister Emmanuel Kasonde and Information Minister Newstead Zimba. Two main...
Vol 44 No 5 | ZAMBIA Poison and bankruptcy 7th March 2003 Arresting the former President sets a precedent and splits the ruling party The arrest of former President Frederick Chiluba on 24 February, to face 66 charges of corruption, will make a lot of African leaders even keener to hold on...
Vol 43 No 22 | ZAMBIA Undoing the rigging 8th November 2002 Was the election rigged? Must there be a fresh election? Later this month, the Supreme Court will resume hearing a petition on those questions.
Vol 43 No 19 | ZAMBIA Corruption club 27th September 2002 Mwanawasa's anti-corruption claims are in doubt as evidence of election-rigging emerges 'I will gladly step down if the court rules that I was elected fraudulently,' announced President Levy Mwanawasa on 19 September. Anderson Mazoka, the runner-up in last December's...