by admin_ijhub | Aug 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
In the run-up to Zambia’s 13 August general elections, democracy was exercised not only at rallies, campaign meetings and polling stations, but also on the screens of ordinary citizens’ phones and computers. In this two-part series, Blessing Vava reports. A young...
by admin_ijhub | Aug 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
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by admin_ijhub | Aug 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
Peter Yuda, who lost the Kasama mayoral by-election in January 2026, has returned to the ballot box and won the mayoral seat — this time on the National Reconciliation Party for Unity and Progress (NRPUP) ticket. In January, Yuda contested under the Forum for...
by admin_ijhub | Aug 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
Stanley Sakala was killed at an independent parliamentary candidate’s campaign base weeks before Zambia voted. The election has since been held, winners declared and campaigns packed away. But nearly two months after his throat was cut, police have made no arrests and...
by admin_ijhub | Aug 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Governance and rights expert Blessing Vava spent the month before Zambia’s election moving through a country preparing for one of its most consequential votes. He was struck by how quickly a complicated contest was reduced to competing absolutes: clean or stolen,...
by admin_ijhub | Aug 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Eswatini is chasing two million visitors by 2027. In Mpaka, a trading hub on the corridor to its game parks and the Mozambican border, the garbage goes uncollected, the law goes unenforced — and the tourism authority will not answer questions. Vuyisile Hlatshwayo...
