Zambia Opposition Demands Election Results Re-verified

Zambia’s main opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) has called on the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to verify all the results of the presidential-by election citing evidence of voter irregularities it said undermines the credibility of the vote. Canisius Banda, deputy president of the UPND in charge of politics, said the verification has to be done in the presence of all the political parties, stakeholders and the independent election monitoring groups to ensure...

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