Tag Archive: Hakainde Hichilema

Politics of Hunger in Zambia

A recent report by Global Hunger Index has ranked Zambia the fifth hungriest country in the world. This coincidentally comes at a time when the country...

Article | October 30, 2019
Commonwealth Steps Out of Zambia’s Political Dialogue Process

Commonwealth has stepped out of Zambia’s political dialogue process aimed at addressing the country’s political impasse between the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) and the...

Article | March 19, 2018
Is the End of Zambia’s Political Crisis in Sight?

Zambia’s leading opposition figure, Hakainde Hichilema and his co-accused walked to freedom on Wednesday 16th August, 2017 after the state entered a nolle prosequi [the...

Article | August 21, 2017
Zambia’s Disturbing Political Crisis

Zambia’s main opposition party, United Party for National Development (UPND) has continued to receive a bashing from the Patriotic Front (PF) government with the...

Article | June 21, 2017
Pressure Mounts on Zambian Gov’t to Address Deteriorating Political Environment

On 10th April, 2017, Zambia Police invaded the house of leading opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichilema. The Police switched...

Article | April 26, 2017
Zambia Re-Elects Lungu in Disputed Polls

Zambians beat their own record on Thursday 11th August, 2016 when they turned up in large numbers and braved the scorching sun in long...

Article | August 18, 2016
presidential election zambia Zambia Election and the Promise of Free Education

A heated debate on the feasibility of free education has ensued on the Zambian political scene ahead of the 11th August general elections. Education...

Article | June 21, 2016
Zambia’s Main Parties Launch Their Election Campaigns On Saturday

Dubbed a Saturday by those so passionate about this year’s campaigns, 21st May is a day when the ‘Big Boys’ get to the people,...

Article | May 24, 2016
Zambians Divided Over Constitutional Amendments Ahead of 2016 polls

On January 5, 2016 Zambia’s sixth President Edgar Chagwa Lungu appended his signature to the most comprehensive and far reaching amendments of the country’s...

Article | January 11, 2016