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Zambia: Free Education Becomes Zambia’s Election Battleground

Zambia: Free Education Becomes Zambia’s Election Battleground

Although campaigns for Zambia’s August general election officially begin in May, education has already emerged as one of the race’s topical issues.

In 2022, President Hakainde Hichilema‘s United Party for National Development (UPND) rolled out free education from primary to secondary school, abolishing tuition and examination fees.

The move marked one of the most ambitious social policy shifts and has since become the government’s flagship achievement.


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