Rupiah Bwezani Banda

Zambia’s new President Rupiah Banda is unlikely to get tough with Mugabe; he is an old friend of Mnangagwa who grew up in Zambia...

Yet windfall taxes imposed by Mwanawasa have now been overturned by President Rupiah Banda in order to make the companies which stayed happier and to try to attract as much new investment as possible...

More agreeably in Zambia Chen and President Rupiah Banda signed off on new infrastructure projects including a stadium and government offices and opened a Lusaka export processing zone for Chinese companies...

Zambia's new President Rupiah Bwezani Banda 71 will rule for only three years...

Once the promoter of Lottie Mwale Zambia's Commonwealth boxing champion (1974-83) President Rupiah Bwezani Banda rolls with the punches in Southern Africa's difficult politics...

The winner is expected to be the acting President Rupiah Bwezani Banda for the ruling MMD...

The 71-year-old acting President Rupiah Bwezani Banda is the front-runner for the top job followed by Magande...

Rupiah Bwezani Banda 71 Acting President Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD); a political veteran who joined the youth wing of the United National Independence Party in 1960 and has been Ambassador to Egypt the United States and the United Nations; his long history with UNIP makes him unpopular with old-guard MMD supporters who still regard him as an outsider; nevertheless it was thanks to him that the MMD won the east in the 2006 elections...

Vice-President Rupiah Bwezani Banda takes charge until an election which must be held within 90 days of the President's death...

Inside his Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) the succession battle is heating up and luck seems to favour Vice-President Rupiah Bwezani Banda the only one who has stayed out of the succession campaigns...