Michael Charles Chilufya Sata (King Cobra)

President Michael Sata's office announced on 22 June that he had flown to Israel for a 'working holiday' including meetings with President Shimon Peres...

Up to now President Michael Sata's government has been able to resist populist calls to live up to its resource-nationalist credentials but the pressure is increasing...

Not only did his late brother expel the British High Commissioner Fergus Cochrane-Dyet he picked a pointless quarrel with Zambia whose President Michael Sata he had expelled in humiliating fashion in 2007 (AC Vol 52 No 21 Brothers-in-arms)...

President Michael Sata was flown to Johannesburg on 26 May after a sudden deterioration in his health Africa Confidential has heard...

The Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) warned President Michael Sata that if the government did not listen to organised labour it would plunge the country into an industrial crisis...

Age and ill health will restrict President Michael Chilufya Sata's public appearances this year fuelling speculation that he will not be fit enough to contest the 2016 general elections...

In opposition President Michael Sata attacked major mining investors whom he accused of being in bed with the previous Movement for Multiparty Democracy government (AAC Vol 1 No 1 Investment and jobs)...

President Michael Sata laid the first stone for the expansion and upgrading of Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka on 7 November...

Beijing may have sighed with relief in 2011 when Zambia's newly-elected President Michael Sata invited Chinese Ambassador Zhou Yuxiao for tea...

In opposition President Michael Sata attacked major mining investors whom he accused of being in bed with the previous Movement for Multiparty Democracy government (AAC Vol 1 No 1 Investment and jobs)...