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...
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There is now no obstacle to Edgar Lungu being sworn in as President of Zambia on 13 September...
Together with fellow State House aide Kaizar Zulu he had played a crucial role in securing President Edgar Lungu's controversial electoral victory earlier in the month overseeing the militant Patriotic Front (PF) youths who were accused of intimidating election officers and voters in polling stations in Lusaka and elsewhere (AC Vol 57 No 17 Lungu's victory under fire)...
Most pundits think that the opposition petition submitted to the Constitutional Court challenging President Edgar Lungu's much criticised election victory has only a slim chance of success...
The electoral return match on 11 August between President Edgar Lungu of the governing Patriotic Front (PF) and Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND) shows every sign of being another cliff-hanger...
Lungu's liberties with democracy President Edgar Lungu's strategy for holding on to power is attracting criticism from many key donors...