Edgar Chagwa Lungu

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)...

As so often in Zambia's elections the Copperbelt will be decisive in next year's general elections and President Edgar Lungu's Patriotic Front (PF) is facing an uphill battle there...

On 14 April an open letter from a group of distinguished Zambian economists – including President Edgar Lungu's former Finance Minister Felix Mutati – pleaded with the government to work with the IMF because 'the economy is on the verge of collapse' saying the budget is 'in disarray' and that the 'government needs to act now'...

A million face-masks financed by the Presidential Empowerment Initiative Fund are stamped with the PF logo and banners on campaign lorries proclaim 'We can fight Covid-19 together with ECL [Edgar Chagwa Lungu] 2021'...

Commentators have remarked that President Edgar Lungu is being distracted by pointless quarrels such as his spat with United States ambassador Daniel Foote over the latter's publicly expressed dismay with the sentencing by the courts of two gay men to 15 years in prison...

Lusaka's aircraft buying spree also included the Gulfstream G650 business jet used by President Edgar Lungu and an order for five Sukhoi airliners which was reduced to one $50m VIP version...

Tussles for supremacy among President Edgar Lungu's key advisors have claimed scalps in his ever-smaller inner circle...

President Edgar Lungu's government has racked up much bigger debts to Chinese companies than it has previously admitted...

She had been in the job for 18 months although most saw her as merely rubber-stamping economic policies decided in President Edgar Lungu's State House...

President Edgar Lungu's government has proposed sweeping changes to the Zambian constitution that critics say are aimed at reducing scrutiny and improving his chances of retaining power at the elections in 2021...

President Edgar Lungu will be hoping for the same...

There has been widespread controversy over the appointment of a PF official Milimo Lungu as liquidator and some local media accuse President Edgar Lungu of 'sending in his boys to take possession of the company's assets'...

Cynics are suggesting that President Edgar Lungu may throw her to the wolves as a scapegoat for the country's economic ills in part because of her very public battle with alcohol...