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Zambia

Zambia

Population: 19.47m
GDP: $22.15bn
Debt: 119.1% of GDP (2021)

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Budget stress

The MMD is clamping down politically but can't afford to make tough economic changes

Having sauntered back into State House after bitter and flawed elections (AC Vol 37 No 24), President Frederick Chiluba must now live with his unenviable inheritance: a tottering p...


In suspense

Foreign and local businesses are stepping up pressure on Western donors to resume aid to Frederick Chiluba' s government after the disputed 18 November elections. They say Chiluba'...


No confidence

A dubious win, summary arrests, an empty treasury – Chiluba's second term begins

As soon as the elections were over, police went into the offices of Zambia's own election monitors, the leaders of the party that came second went into hiding and the President pla...


No vote for UNIP

The elections have been set for 18 November, despite ex-President Kenneth Kaunda's insistence that the United National Independence Party and five other parties will boycott them. ...


Chilling Chiluba

The ruling MMD's refusal to talk to the opposition may push politics out of control

From 31 October, President Frederick Chiluba's government is into extra time. A head-on political confrontation looms. Supporters of Chiluba's Movement for Multi-party Democracy ma...


A return match 

President Chiluba faces opposition of two kinds: from Western donors and from his predecessor 

Zambians are the clear losers in the three-cornered fight between President Frederick Chiluba, his predecessor Kenneth Kaunda and Western donors ahead of October's elections. Donor...


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