President Hakainde Hichilema is under fire for his laggardly response to ex-President Edgar Lungu's death following claims by the opposition that he prevented his predecessor from travelling abroad for cancer treatment...
Although he beat ex-President Edgar Lungu by a landslide in the 2021 election President Hakainde Hichilema believes his old enemy is an obstacle to his hopes of re-election in the polls set for August 2026 and he is moving mountains to remove him from the political scene using first threats and now inducements...
During his election campaign President Hakainde Hichilema said the first law he would repeal would be the Cyber Security and the Cyber Crimes Act which President Edgar Lungu had introduced in the run-up to the 2021 election and which Hichilema had condemned as an attack on civil liberties...
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The company regained control of the KCM last year after Hichilema quietly ended a five-year dispute started by his predecessor Edgar Lungu's Patriotic Front government...
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Hichilema's landslide victory in 2021 was partly due to years of corruption under the former President Edgar Lungu's Patriotic Front (PF) government (Dispatches 4/6/24 A Lungu family crackdown)...
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Days earlier former President Edgar Lungu told the BBC that he is 'virtually under house arrest' because of the attentions overzealous he says of his security detail...
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Despite surging into government on a wave of popular relief at the departure of President Edgar Lungu's haphazard venal government in August 2021 Zambians still await with dwindling patience the fulfilment of the election promises of President Hakainde Hichilema and his United Party for National Development (UPND)...
Two former heads of state Mozambique's Joachim Chissano and Zambia's Edgar Lungu turned up on the following day...
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...