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Former president Edgar Lungu’s body is still in South Africa because of a row between Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema and the Lunga family over where he should be buried. Photo: File

Drama over former Zambian president’s body as court orders its return

The family of former Zambian president Edgar Lungu has launched an urgent high court application in Pretoria after his body was allegedly removed without permission from a…

Boom: It’s not only international tourists travelling in Zambia, locals are exploring too. Photo: Zambia Tourism Agency

Zambia tourism taking off

In the past three years, Zambia has recorded a nearly 300% increase in international tourist arrivals, following the removal of visa fees

Danger: People with albinism march through Jinja, Uganda, against attacks on them. Photo: Fredrik Lerneryd/AFP

No justice in Zambia for survivors of attacks against people with albinism

Human rights activists are concerned that the economic depression from Covid-19 and the growing cost-of-living crisis has led to an increased willingness to engage in such attacks

President Hakainde Hichilema’s government faces serious economic challenges despite the fact that Zambia has one of the richest resources of raw materials in the world. Photo: Salim Dawood/AFP

Is the US establishing a military base in Zambia?

Dr Fred M’membe, president of the Socialist Party in Zambia, says such a facility will be established ‘over our dead bodies’

Red is led: Hichilema supporters celebrate in Lusaka.  (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

Zambia 2021: The voice of the people triumphs once more

Lungu’s defeat in the Zambian elections will be a constant reminder to the new government that the Zambian people have the power to vote for change

Hakainde Hichilema (C), leader of the Zambia opposition party United Party for National Development. (EPA-EFE/NIC BOTHMA)

Zambians go to elections amid turmoil. What’s at stake

What is worrisome is that even if Zambians desire political change, research indicates that fear of facing electoral violence lowers support for democracy

What’s in a name?
Thandiwe Newton
came to acting more by
accident than by design,
having studied dancing.
Photo: Leigh Groenemeyer

Thandiwe Newton on reclaiming her identity

The Hollywood star speaks about misspelling her name, Zimbabwe’s political crisis and her love of sadza

Kenneth Kaunda, president of Zambia, during his official visit to Sweden in September 1971. (Photo by Stringer/ Pressens Bild/AFP)

Kenneth Kaunda: The man behind the statesman

Zambia’s founding father left a lasting legacy

Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s “founding father” and first president, has died in a military hospital in Lusaka where he was being treated for pneumonia. (Photo by Vladimir Akimov / Sputnik / Sputnik via AFP)

Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda was the last of Africa’s ‘philosopher kings’

The liberation legend died on Thursday at a military hospital in Lusaka, aged 97

New ideas: Young Zambian activists livestreamed their protest from the bush outside Lusaka. (Photo: Supplied)

Audacious Zambian protesters outsmart the police

Tired of being arrested and beaten up at protests, young activists tried something different and it worked

The Zambian government promotes large-scale agricultural investments to diversify its economy and reduce rural poverty.

After seven years, displaced Zambian villagers might get land

A high court ruling in Zambia could mean redistributed land and compensation for communities who were evicted for commercial farming

I was born into this situation of this mixture of people suddenly under assault by apartheid laws.

Slice of life: ‘I sought my own slave saint’

‘People always ask how can I look like a white person, but not be white’

Riots broke out in parts of Zambia’s capital Lusaka over the curfew and ban on gatherings which was introduced to contain the latest cholera outbreak

Cholera in a time of neoliberalism

Cholera epidemics are preventable in modern times. So why do we continue to see deadly outbreaks?

Among the new friends found on Ilhabela

Going home from home

A traveller returns home to warm familiarities seen through the eyes of universality

If I become a dictator for once bear with me.

Lungu’s power grab: Complete

Speaking to local press outlets upon his arrival in Lusaka, Lungu announced his intention to “up the game” of policing operations.

The wall of Kariba hydroelectric dam, on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia. Mark Boulton/Biosphoto

​A meander through SADC’s sweetest spot

Zambia has the friendliest of people, but doesn’t manage to harness tourism income.

In addition to being a tourist attraction

Warm, friendly Zambia should be on foreign tourism radar

A meander through "the sweetest country" leads to all kinds of finds: local musician JK, the Lusaka National Museum and Zamtel telecom outlets.

Zambian residents stand among their household belongings in the Chinika township oin Lusaka. Hundreds of Zambians faced a night on the streets

Hundreds homeless in Lusaka as big business moves in

Highlighting Zambia’s struggle to balance economic growth with rights for the poor, a hundred homes in Lusaka have been cleared making way for a mill.

Zambia editor on trial for ‘obscene’ photos

The trial of a leading Zambian journalist charged with circulating obscene material was due to get under way in Lusaka on Wednesday.

The love that whispers

Being gay in Lusaka is not difficult if you don’t cross people’s paths”