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How Zambia Defeated an Election Petition Without Ever Arguing the Case

Zambia Eye
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October 10, 2026, 12:18 pm
How Zambia Defeated an Election Petition Without Ever Arguing the Case

"By Oyugu Abednego Ochililo Zambia’s 13 August general election was already fraught before anyone tried to challenge its result, according to an account human rights lawyer Linda Kasonde has since published on her Substack. The army had been deployed to polling stations, she writes, a role outside its constitutional mandate. The Electoral Commission suspended vote […] The post How Zambia Defeate..."

By Oyugu Abednego Ochililo Zambia’s 13 August general election was already fraught before anyone tried to challenge its result, according to an account human rights lawyer Linda Kasonde has since published on her Substack. The army had been deployed to polling stations, she writes, a role outside its constitutional mandate. The Electoral Commission suspended vote […]

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