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24 June – Zambia reports the first suspected cases of monkeypox. [2] 15 December – Police in Zambia arrest a truck driver alleged to have transported 27 Ethiopian migrants found dead on the outskirts of Lusaka on Sunday. The bodies were dumped in a farm. [3] 23 December – Zambia officially abolishes capital punishment. [4]
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia 4 January – ZESCO, Zambia's largest power company, announces increased power cuts from six hours to twelve hours as a result of lower water levels at the Kariba Dam between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Hichilema took part, on 5 May 2023, in a Commonwealth Heads of State and Government pre-coronation summit where King Charles III, the new Commonwealth Head was present. On 6 May 2023, he attended the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla. [50] During the coronation event, Hichilema held bilateral meetings with various members of the community:
Botswana and Zambia; Initially a joint bid with Namibia, but on 19 April 2022, Namibia pulled out after the national government failed to approve on a budget. [2] After that, Botswana entered as a solo bid, [1] before joining up with Zambia just before the vote after Zambia withdrew from the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations bidding process.
The 2022 census of Zambia was a detailed enumeration of the Zambian population that became the sixth national census in the country since independence. It began on August 18, 2022 and concluded by September 14, 2022. [1] It became Zambia's first-ever digitally conducted population census. [2]
The 2022–23 Zambia Super League, known as the MTN Super League for sponsorship purposes, [1] is the 62nd season of the top-tier association football league in Zambia which began on 20 August 2022. Red Arrows are the defending champions.
The President is elected via the two-round system. [5] Of the 167 members of the National Assembly, 156 are elected by the first-past-the-post system in single-member constituencies, with a further eight appointed by the President and three others being ex-officio members: the Vice President, the Speaker and a deputy speaker elected from outside the National Assembly (a second deputy speaker ...
The teams played against each other in a home-and-away round-robin format between 9 June 2022 and 9 September 2023. [2] Zambia, the group winners, joined Ivory Coast, the group runners-up and tournament hosts, in qualifying for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.