Zambia’s newly-elected President Edgar Lungu dropped vice president Guy Scott – who was briefly Africa’s only white leader – from his administration when he announced his cabinet on Monday. As interim president since the death in office of Michael Sata in October, Scott had been the first white leader on the continent since the end […]
Hundreds of people lined Lusaka’s Great East road on Saturday as the body of Zambian president Michael Sata, who died in London this week, arrived in the country to be burial next week. There were emotional scenes with several people breaking down as pall bearers carried Sata’s dark casket draped in the Zambian flag off […]
Zambia reverted to white rule on Wednesday when vice president Guy Scott of Scottish descent were elevated to the top job after the demise of President Michael Sata on Tuesday. The Cambridge-educated economist Scott, 70, became the first white leader of an African country since FW de Klerk stepped down as president of South Africa […]
As Malawians were last week celebrating the life of the country’s founding leader, Dr Hasting Kamuzu Banda, Zambia’s Second lady, Charlotte Scott, silently flew into the country to join in the revels and pay tribute to the fallen ruler. Madame Scott, who arrived in the country Monday this week through Kamuzu International Airport (KIA), remembered […]
Revelations have emerged that following a raging diplomatic row between Malawi and Zambia, which saw newly elected Zambian President Michael Chilufya Sata boycotting the 15th COMESA Heads of State Summit in Lilongwe over the weekend, his Vice Guy Scott was denied the opportunity to make a speech at the event. President Sata did not attend […]
Zambia’s vice president Guy Scott has warned of increasing strained diplomatic relations with Malawi, if the Bingu wa Mutharika administration will not apologise to Zambia Presisent Micheal Sata for declaring him prohibited immigrant four years ago. Scott told reporters in Lilongwe that he has come to represent Zambia during the Comesa summit as Malawi has […]
Zambia’s President Michael Sata on Saturday rejected an invitation by Malawian President Bingu Mutharika to attend the COMESA Heads of State summit in Lilongwe because his counterpart had failed to apologise for having him expelled five years ago. According to Zambia Watchdog, President Mutharika sent Malawi’s envoy in Zambia, David Bandawe to deliver the invitation […]