Hakainde Hichilema (HH)

Having lost faith in his own party the Movement for Multiparty Democracy former President Rupiah Banda has secretly begun financing the United Party for National Development led by Hakainde Hichilema say political sources in Lusaka...

Collum Coal Mine which employs more than 800 people and is situated in a stronghold of opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema's United Party for National Development remains a flashpoint for acrimony in China-Zambia relations...

Hakainde Hichilema’s United Party for National Development polled 16%...

Also in the presidential race will be Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND) who is matching Zimbabwean President Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s homophobic rhetoric in the hope of winning votes...

13% and the UPND’s Hakainde Hichilema 19...

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...

Sata’s failed electoral alliance with Hakainde Hichilema’s United Party for National Development means that the UPND’s 28 votes are unlikely to fall on Sata’s side...

Two leaders of much larger opposition parties Michael Sata of the Patriotic Front (PF) and Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND) have formed an electoral alliance which will compete fiercely against the MMD next year...

The main threat to the MMD comes from the alliance between Michael Sata and Hakainde Hichilema...

Although Sata has lost three times the aged oppositionist remains a strong contender and he is using populist rhetoric along with an electoral pact with Hakainde Hichilema and the United Party for National Development to bolster his support...

In October 2008 Banda beat his closest rival Michael Sata of the Patriotic Front by just 35 000 votes; Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development came third...