EDITORIAL: Under Hakainde Hichilema, Zambia has chance to step back from brink

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Hichilema inherits a country ravaged by economic turmoil and on the edge of human rights crisis

For the third time since independence from Britain in the 1960s, Zambia has marked a peaceful handover of power.

It was the year Kenneth Kaunda, who died earlier in 2021, accepted with grace and dignity his defeat in the first multiparty elections that gave Zambia only its second president — trade unionist Fredrick Chiluba — since independence from Britain in the 1960s. Lungu’s Patriotic Front party went on a spending frenzy when it took over in 2011, building thousands of kilometres of new roads, airports, clinics and hospitals. In the process, it racked up $13bn of foreign debt — whose servicing costs eat into much of the country’s budget and leave little for the country to spend on other services, such as electricity. This left Zambians facing blackouts lasting up to 17 hours a day.

 

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