Social media helped contribute to the UPND’s impressive victory in the 2021 Zambia elections, new analysis shows. The party’s online messaging resonated more with users compared to their rivals, ...

In 2021, 171 million netizens were affected by network outages in Sub-Saharan Africa. Civil society has been off the grid for 15,963 hours. This resulted in gigantic economic losses, amounting to a ...

United Party for National Development (UPND) Presidential candidate Hakainde Hichilema looks on during a rally in Lusaka on January 18, 2015. [Reuters] Opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has ...

Polling began at more than 12,000 polling stations, including in prisons. Zambians are voting in a tense election that the president and his main rival have said is a test of the southern African ...

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema came into office in 2021 after pulling off a surprise election victory against the incumbent Edgar Lungu, despite Lungu’s many undemocratic efforts to cling to ...

Although elections won't be held in Zambia for another 10 months, the battle lines already being drawn over the country's debt woes could make them the issue to topple the longtime incumbent.

Lungu came into power in 2015 to complete president Michael Sata's five-year tenure after Sata had died in October 2014. Zambia's President Edgar Lungu's decision to contest the 2021 election sparked ...