Zambia

Having failed to secure an unconstitutional third term (AC Vol 42 No 10), President Frederick Chiluba lacks a successor since he sacked the former front-runners from his ruling Mov...

President Frederick Chiluba has sworn that he will not after all seek the unconstitutional third term that he worked so hard to win. On 8 May he reaffirmed: 'I am not going to stan...

Born-again Christian President Frederick Chiluba arrived back in Lusaka for Easter to denounce the 'ministerial treachery' against him in biblical terms. He compared those minister...

Fifteen senior members of the governing MMD's National Executive Committee publicly oppose Chiluba's bid for a third term...

President Frederick Chiluba's bid for a third term is in trouble, with three quarrelling factions in the ruling Movement for Multi-party Democracy (AC Vol 41 No 24). The ultra-loya...

Frederick Chiluba seems to want to keep his job, although the constitution says a president may serve only two five-year terms. His ambition could be frustrated if his lieutenants,...

Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, healer and exorcist in Rome for 18 years, has been silently sacked as Vatican Special Delegate to the Pontifical Commission for Migration and T...

Zambians' belief in the brand new Republican Party faces its first test on 26 September. By contesting seven by-elections, the party hopes to give a voice to the discontents of vot...

Zambia's ruling politicians had hoped that selling off the government's ailing copper-mines would bring benefits in time for next year's elections (AC Vol 41 No 14). The slow and p...

Promises of dollops of money at the Consultative Group meeting in Lusaka on 16-18 July (AC Vol 41 No 14) dispelled fears that Finance Minister Katele Kalumba was about to be axed. ...