Word: kaunda
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...country's first multiparty election since 1968, voters emphatically rejected founding father Kenneth Kaunda in a landslide for the opposition. Kaunda, 67, had been President since Zambia gained independence from Britain in 1964 and led black Africa against apartheid. But his authoritarian rule and economic mismanagement led to riots and an aborted coup last year that forced him to legalize rival parties...
Where is Saddam Hussein hiding his wife Sajida and their several children? Conflicting reports have placed the dictator's clan in Switzerland, in Mauritania and in northern Zambia. Each location has some plausibility, the last because Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's President, visited Baghdad in early January and has accepted Iraqi financial help...
Prices were not the only issue. Critics of longtime President Kenneth Kaunda accused his government of corruption and poor management, which, combined with the 1974 collapse of copper prices, has made Zambia one of the world's poorest countries. Kaunda, 66, blamed the "power hungry" for the unrest, but he did seek to appease the mobs by scheduling a promised referendum on whether to restore multiparty democracy, abolished in 1972, on Oct. 17. Still, he said, there would be no relenting on the austerity measures, which are intended to impress the International Monetary Fund...
None of these developments are a panacea for Africa. Lip service to reform notwithstanding, it remains unclear just how committed these well-entrenched regimes really are to giving up the total control they have enjoyed. The need for foreign aid and the fear of social unrest drove President Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's leader for 25 years, to embrace the idea of pluralism, but he has yet to schedule a promised popular referendum. In the case of Mobutu and Houphouet-Boigny, their utterances have contained a hint of "Apres moi, le deluge." These old-timers may be calculating that they...