While publicly condemning corruption President Rupiah Bwezani Banda gave United States diplomats various explanations of why he could do little about it according to US State Department cables that WikiLeaks released this month – just before Zambia’s legislative and presidential elections on 20 September...
’ Local industry sources as well as opposition politicians claim President Rupiah Banda favoured LAPGN’s bid because of his links with Gadaffi...
The main challenger to President Rupiah Bwezani Banda in the elections he has called for 20 September is his arch-rival Michael Chilufya Sata: both agree that money will prove critical to the results...
In the last two months some high-profile Movement for Multiparty Democracy personalities including close friends of President Rupiah Banda’s have crossed over to Michael Sata’s Patriotic Front (PF)...
President Rupiah Banda’s dismissal of his friend and campaign manager Vernon Johnson Mwaanga at the urging of his sons James and Henry demonstrates their growing political weight in Lusaka (AC Vol 50 No 25)...
The conventional wisdom had been that Sata could not defeat President Rupiah Banda unless he was the joint nominee of his Patriotic Front (PF) and the United Party for National Development...
President Bingu wa Mutharika hosted the opening ceremony and attracted regional leaders such as President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Zambia’s Rupiah Banda...
Facing growing dissatisfaction President Rupiah Bwezani Banda and the governing Movement for Multiparty Democracy have a fight on their hands to win this year’s national elections...
President Rupiah Banda is facing an increasingly strong challenge in the upcoming elections since Michael Sata’s Patriotic Front (PF) made common cause with the United Party for National Development (UPND) of Hakainde Hichilema...
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Sata’s government also plans to resurrect the development agreements that were torn up after former President Rupiah Banda imposed a mining windfall tax in 2008...