Edgar Chagwa Lungu

But this is not enough to signify potential poll fraud since President Edgar Lungu only beat Hichilema by 50...

We hear that President Edgar Lungu wants to postpone the presidential poll because of illness (See Box That date with destiny isn't good for me)...

That date with destiny isn't good for me Lusaka is awash with rumours that President Edgar Lungu is so worried about his health that he wants to postpone the general election date of 12 August...

In a letter to President Edgar Lungu of 23 June the family wrote that they had considered the proposal but 'our gallant first president needs to rest in peace at his final resting place… to be buried next to his dear wife at his residence'...

The Zanaco loan is to fund a two-year $131m FISP contract signed last year with Zambian company Neria's Investments Ltd an inputs supplier whose owners are close to President Edgar Lungu...

This may improve President Edgar Lungu's re-election prospects if the IMF moves quickly to disburse funds...

Ramaphosa's public putdown of Mboweni for tweeting against Zambia's President Edgar Lungu's decision to sack central bank governor Denny Kalyalya in August gave many ANC leaders licence to attack him (AC Vol 61 No 17 The governor and the guv'nor)...

Yet sources in Lusaka and Washington alike call it a cosmetic exercise a programme designed only to buy the government time while all the efforts of the ruling Patriotic Front and government ministers direct themselves to re-electing President Edgar Lungu and increasing their majority in parliament...

President Edgar Lungu requested a Fund programme on 8 December but observers think this was for show...

There is little sign that President Edgar Lungu's government will produce a credible debt-restructuring plan acceptable to both Western and Chinese lenders...

Giving no reason President Edgar Lungu sacked the respected governor of the central bank the Bank of Zambia Denny Kalyalya replacing him with Christopher Mvunga formerly Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet...

Once one of President Edgar Lungu's closest allies and considered by many his most likely successor – or at least his running mate in next year's general election – Chitalu Chilufya is suddenly yesterday's man having been arrested on corruption charges (AC Vol 60 No 23 Intrigue at State House & Vol 59 No 8 As the debts balloon Lungu avoids the spotlight)...