{"id":241577,"date":"2026-08-20T08:14:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-hichilemas-victory-challenged-as-doubts-grow-over-election\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:14:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:14:01","slug":"zambia-hichilemas-victory-challenged-as-doubts-grow-over-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-hichilemas-victory-challenged-as-doubts-grow-over-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Hichilema&#8217;s Victory Challenged As Doubts Grow Over Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Lusaka \u2014 Brian Mundubile, the main challenger to President Hakainde Hichilema in the 2026 presidential election, has rejected the Electoral Commission of Zambia&#8217;s declaration of Hichilema&#8217;s victory following the vote held on August 13 (see Fides, 13 and 18\/8\/2026).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">The candidate of the National Reconciliation Party for Unity and Prosperity (NRPUP) said yesterday, August 18, that his party had &#8220;documented irregularities relating to the security, transportation and handling of ballot papers, as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608190632.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lusaka \u2014 Brian Mundubile, the main challenger to President Hakainde Hichilema in the 2026 presidential election, has rejected the Electoral Commission of Zambia&#8217;s declaration of Hichilema&#8217;s victory following the vote held on August 13 (see Fides, 13 and 18\/8\/2026). The candidate of the National Reconciliation Party for Unity and Prosperity (NRPUP) said yesterday, August 18, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671421:c73f630e6e564be669cd6a070bba1d5d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,10306,13897,3119,11916,7379,257,254,10099,4709,881],"class_list":["post-241577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenged","tag-doubts","tag-grow","tag-hichilemas","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-victory","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671421:c73f630e6e564be669cd6a070bba1d5d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}