Zambia

Frederick Chiluba seems to want to keep his job, although the constitution says a president may serve only two five-year terms. His ambition could be frustrated if his lieutenants,...

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 T...

Zambians' belief in the brand new Republican Party faces its first test on 26 September. By contesting seven by-elections, the party hopes to give a voice to the discontents of vot...

Zambia's ruling politicians had hoped that selling off the government's ailing copper-mines would bring benefits in time for next year's elections (AC Vol 41 No 14). The slow and p...

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 knives are out as the ruling Movement for Multi-party Democracy, bereft of a natural successor to President Frederick Chiluba, begins its pre-election finagling. Chiluba could ...

Lusaka is buzzing with preparations for a crucial meeting of the Consultative Group of donors in the city on 16-19 July. The government is hoping for US$605 million for next year; ...

So strong was the personality cult around the Independence leader and Father of the Nation, former President Kenneth Kaunda, that his United National Independence Party has been th...

President Frederick Chiluba has had a surprisingly good six months. He brokered a seemingly impossible peace deal for the Democratic Republic of Congo, signed in July and now under...

Four unknown gunmen at the gate of his house fired four shots and then disappeared. After a few hours in intensive care at the government hospital, he was pronounced dead. Major We...