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Might the 2021 Zambian elections usher in another period of economic growth? Salim Dawood/AFP via Getty Images

August 9, 2021

Four priorities for Zambia after the 2021 elections

Danielle Resnick, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Whoever wins the elections will face two key challenges: reviving the country’s democratic credentials and stimulating the economy.

Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu is tightening his grip on power even further. EPA/Abir Sultan

July 6, 2017

Lungu tries to have his cake and eat it: a state of emergency in all but name

Nic Cheeseman, University of Birmingham

Zambia’s president is securing powers to consolidate his political control while generating ‘plausible deniability’ to whether or not he has fatally undermined democracy.

Edgar Lungu supporters at a pre-election rally. The level of polarisation before Zambia’s polls was unprecedented. Reuters/Stella Mapenzausw

August 22, 2016

Zambia post elections: President Lungu has his work cut out for him

Chris Changwe Nshimbi, University of Pretoria

Zambia’s Edgar Lungu shouldn’t consider his presidential victory to mean business as usual in the management of the economy; nor an opportunity to waste and plunder.

A Zambian opposition protester is arrested during a past election: Instances of serious violence have increased dramatically this time around. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

August 7, 2016

Zambia’s 2016 elections: democracy hovering on the precipice

Danielle Resnick, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

As Zambia prepares to go to the polls again the entire party system is in flux, electoral violence has been worryingly frequent and the country’s democratic credentials are increasingly in doubt

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