Rupiah Bwezani Banda

Sata a fiery populist who senses a strong campaign issue against incumbent President Rupiah Banda claims the government is putting Chinese investors above the law...

Michael Sata responded to the news of the Zambian deal with typical bluster saying Beijing’s ‘imaginary’ investments would not win President Rupiah Banda any new votes ahead of next year’s polls...

President Rupiah Banda went on a 10-day official visit to China in late February and came back with a raft of promises of new investments even in agriculture just when the political class is focused on floods and food shortages...

The battle for the presidency is between incumbent President Rupiah Banda and the main opposition leader Michael Sata who heads the Patriotic Front...

With copper revenue rising poverty falling and farms thriving the fortunes of President Rupiah Banda’s Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) government should be on the up with hopes of a comfortable win in the 2011 general elections...

The opposition celebrates Banda’s declining popularity: ‘President Rupiah Banda is certainly leaving in 2011 whether he likes it or not ’ said Edith Nawakwi President of the Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD)...

With Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Zambian President Rupiah Banda at their head the regional leaders who attended Mutharika's 22 May re-inauguration ceremony in Blantyre pronounced themselves intensely satisfied with the result...

Presidents Rupiah Banda of Zambia Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe have in their different ways criticised European (they mean British) interference in their countries' politics...

MDC dissidents argue that within the Southern African Development Community Botswana's Ian Khama Tanzania's Jakaya Kikwete and Zambia's Rupiah Banda pressed for more concessions...

Falling state revenue will make governing even tougher for President Rupiah Banda who won October's election by just over 25 000 votes and presides over the fractious Movement for Multiparty Democracy...

ZAMBIA: Caution's the watchword Caution characterises the political style of new President Rupiah Banda...