At the present rate of progress President Hakainde Hichilema and his United Party for National Development (UPND) – elected in a landslide by voters fed up with six years of sleaze and chaos under President Edgar Lungu – risks reaching the half-way mark of their five-year term having fulfilled few of their campaign promises...

The government of Hichilema's predecessor Edgar Lungu ran up huge debts while spending on corrupt schemes and vote-winning gambits...

All the major commercial creditors are expected to join the restructuring although questions remain over some commercial loans and guarantees contracted by President Edgar Lungu's officials immediately before he lost the election last August...

For them it diverts attention from his programme especially attempts to counter the conduct of appointees of his predecessor President Edgar Lungu such as Director of Public Prosecutions Lilian Siyuni Shawa and the liquidator of Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) lawyer Milingo Lungu (see Box State House crosses swords with law officers)...

In a complex move suspected as corrupt and designed to generate cash for the then-ruling Patriotic Front President Edgar Lungu ordered the liquidation of KCM the local subsidiary of India's Vedanta Resources and a provisional liquidator Milingo Lungu (no relation) was appointed in May 2019 (AC Vol 62 No 17 Reconciliation and a reckoning)...

Last year Zambians overwhelmingly voted out Edgar Lungu's Patriotic Front government primarily because of economic mismanagement and galloping corruption...

Local media have criticised the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lilian Shawa appointed by former President Edgar Lungu in October 2016 for her lack of zeal in pursuing corruption cases...

Zambia's parliament threw out President Edgar Lungu's 'Bill 10' which it was said would turn the country into a 'constitutional dictatorship'...

Some of the more controversial public officials of the previous regime such as Treasury Secretary Fredson Yamba and a host of other unpopular permanent secretaries are gone while respected professionals dismissed by President Edgar Lungu such as former Central Bank Governor Denny Kalyalya have been reinstated (AC Vol 61 No 17 Reconciliation and a reckoning)...

President Hakainde Hichilema's inauguration on 24 August ended the tense period that followed polling day on 12 August when it looked as though his predecessor Edgar Lungu might refuse to accept defeat...

The presence of Biti and Chamisa from Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change must have been particularly galling for President Emmerson Mnangagwa who studied law in Zambia and was close to Edgar Lungu...

Sinohydro co-operated with ex-President Edgar Lungu's commissioning of one of the turbines in July...