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Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema won a second 5-year term, giving investors policy continuity as the government seeks to build on its debt restructuring and increase copper production.<\/p>\n
Hichilema won about 61% of votes in the August 13 election, while his main challenger, Brian Mundubile, received 38%, according to the electoral commission.<\/p>\n
The result gave Hichilema more than the 50% required to avoid a runoff. The 64-year-old leader, an economist and businessman, took office in 2021 after 5…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema won a second 5-year term, giving investors policy continuity as the government seeks to build on its debt restructuring and increase copper production. Hichilema won about 61% of votes in the August 13 election, while his main challenger, Brian Mundubile, received 38%, according to the electoral commission. The result gave Hichilema […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,9381,6641,6976,5986,257,254,7153,7557,6552,881,8982],"class_list":["post-241733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-growth","tag-hichilema","tag-investors","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-term","tag-wins","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241733","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=241733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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