Edgar Chagwa Lungu

Extraordinary sights greeted viewers of the Prime TV News television channel on 8 April as President Edgar Lungu and United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema took their motorcades to the annual Kuomboka celebration of the Lozi people in Western Province...

Zambian President Edgar Lungu became the latest African leader to be welcomed in Jerusalem in February...

President Edgar Lungu had barely begun his second term of office this year when he declared himself ready for another...

Concern about the actions of State House advisers has grown so much that President Edgar Lungu felt obliged to persuade civil servants not to be intimidated...

After a year dominated by the election that controversially returned President Edgar Lungu and the Patriotic Front to power the main political battles in 2017 look set to be factional struggles within the ruling party and inside the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND)...

It was always the aim sources close to State House told Africa Confidential for President Edgar Lungu to use the public purse freely for measures that would help his presidential election campaign...

The latest public body to feel President Edgar Lungu's enmity is the judiciary which has been granting petitions to nullify some constituencies' results in the 16 August polls...

President Edgar Lungu sacked the Information Minister and Chief Government Spokesperson Chishimba Kambwili a founding member of the Patriotic Front on 8 November...

This means that a PVT is likely to be of little use in a case like Zambia where the gap between the two candidates was just three points and President Edgar Lungu secured a first round victory by just 0...

There is now no obstacle to Edgar Lungu being sworn in as President of Zambia on 13 September...