Zambian president headed for victory as opposition arrests cloud vote
© Gianluigi GUERCIA/AFP) Published on August 17, 2026 at 17:27 pm (GMT +1) Zambia President Hakainde Hichilema, 64, is seeking a final five-year term with the 13 August election seen as a high-stakes referendum on the management of the economy as copper production booms.
The party “rejects with absolute disdain the spurious and entirely false claims made by the Zambian Government that the NRPUP, its leadership or its members have been involved in insurgency, militia activity or any related conduct whatsoever,” it said.
Zambian incumbent President and United Party for National Development (UPND) presidential candidate Hakainde Hichilema casts his ballot in Lusaka on 13 August 2026.
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