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Hakainde Hichilema (HH)

Date of Birth: 4/06/1962
Place of Birth: Monze


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Hichilema hails 'mission impossible' deal

3 billion of Zambia's foreign debt gives President Hakainde Hichilema much of what he was looking for – a resolution after almost two years of tortuous negotiations and a sharp cut in debt service obligations worth an estimated $5...

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Hichilema faces critical delivery test

At the present rate of progress President Hakainde Hichilema and his United Party for National Development (UPND) – elected in a landslide by voters fed up with six years of sleaze and chaos under President Edgar Lungu – risks reaching the half-way mark of their five-year term having fulfilled few of their campaign promises...


Loans before haircuts

They have indicated that significant debt restructuring or haircuts will need to be agreed with private and bilateral creditors even if President Hakainde Hichilema manages to successfully push through the spending cuts demanded by the IMF (AC Vol 63 No 19 Fears of pain in prospect)...


Fears of pain in prospect

3 billion IMF rescue package agreed at the beginning of the month amid concern that President Hakainde Hichilema may not have the political capital to see it through without heavy social unrest (AC Vol 63 No 18 Debt deal boosts kwacha)...


Debt deal boosts kwacha

President Hakainde Hichilema hopes that the agreement which the IMF says will see the country receive an immediate payment of $185 million one of a series over the next 38 months is only the start...


Hichilema accused of 'losing focus’

President Hakainde Hichilema gave a long and emotional press conference on 25 April further cataloguing his persecution by the previous government – which many critics believe irrelevant to the current political situation – while making vague promises about his government's programme...


Chasing the mining millions

One of President Hakainde Hichilema's toughest challenges is the raft of complex and costly legal battles over mining assets bequeathed by the Patriotic Front (PF) government which was defeated by a landslide in the 12 August general election (AC Vol 62 No 17 Reconciliation and a reckoning)...

PRESSURE on TO PICK UP THE PACE The new government of President Hakainde Hichilema has passed its first hundred days amid impatience for quicker action to tackle the legacy of incompetence and corruption of the previous Patriotic Front government...


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