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Chilufya Tayali is a Zambian politician and President of Economic and Equity Party, an opposition political party in Zambia. Previously, he was leader of civil society before joining active politics when he contested to be Mayor of Lusaka , the capital of Zambia.
Mwebantu is a national news agency headquartered in Lusaka and is one of the leading online news website and social media platform in Zambia. [1] Mwebantu.com is their flagship website which is an online based news publication catering for local Zambians and those in the diaspora.
The President is elected via the two-round system. [5] Of the 167 members of the National Assembly, 156 are elected by the first-past-the-post system in single-member constituencies, with a further eight appointed by the President and three others being ex-officio members: the Vice President, the Speaker and a deputy speaker elected from outside the National Assembly (a second deputy speaker ...
Zambia has provided troops to UN peacekeeping initiatives in Mozambique, Rwanda, Angola, and Sierra Leone. Zambia was the first African state to cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda into the Rwandan genocide in 1994. In 1998, Zambia took the lead in efforts to establish a cease-fire in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Zambian Watchdog is an investigative online media platform that focuses on corruption and other major crimes such as drug trafficking in Zambia. It also contains breaking news on politics and major events in Zambia. The Zambian Watchdog was founded as a newspaper with an online edition, but was forced into exile in 2009 and subsequently ...
Between 1972 and 1990, Zambia was a one-party state with the United National Independence Party (UNIP) as the sole legal party. [ 1 ] The current National Assembly, formed following elections held in 2021, has a total of 166 members. 156 members are directly elected in single-member constituencies using the simple plurality (or first-past-the ...
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The Patriotic Front (PF) is a political party in Zambia, founded in 2001 by Michael Sata. It emerged as a breakaway party from the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) after Sata was not selected as the MMD's presidential candidate for the 2001 elections. The PF is primarily supported by the youth and the urban poor, and it gained ...