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Zambia: I'm Just Trying to Bring Sanity to Our Country - Lungu
News24Wire, 7 July 2017
Zambian President Edgar Lungu has defended his decision to invoke a state of emergency in the southern African nation, saying he was "ringing sanity to the country". Read more »
What's Next For Uncertain Zambians?
With the leader of the main opposition party Hakainde Hichilema and his co-accused still in prison on treason charges, a suspension of 48 MPs from Hichilema's United Party for National Development for boycotting an address by President Edgar Lungu and now a state of emergency, one would wonder what could be next.
President Edgar Lungu, opposition politician Hakainde Hichilema and Zambian police (file photo).
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