The casket of Zambia's first President Kenneth Kaunda arrives during a state funeral in Lusaka, Zambia, on July 2, 2021. Zambia on Friday held a grand funeral for the country's first President Kenneth ...

Zambia's former President Edgar Lungu, who died last week, left instructions that his successor Hakainde Hichilema "should not be anywhere near" his body, a family spokesman has said. This is the ...

Zambian netizens have received an appeal by their government to donate money towards an estimated US$1 million towards the funeral costs of the late former president Frederick Chiluba with incredulity ...

Nearly three months after his death in South Africa on 5 June 2025, Zambia’s former president, Edgar Lungu, remains in a Johannesburg morgue because of a legal row between his family and the Zambian ...

Fans of a deceased Zambian president have appropriated a song written for sad English soccer fans in their campaign to bring ...

Zambia boasts 72 culturally diverse tribes, each with its own unique customs and traditions. Diverse as they are, the different tribes share many of the same funeral rites. The rites are performed ...

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — The coffin of President Michael Sata, draped in Zambia’s flag, was placed on a red carpet at the center of a stadium holding more than 50,000 mourners and several African leaders ...

Zambia has held a state funeral for President Michael Sata, who died last month aged 77, after receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness in a UK hospital. Regional leaders were amongst those who ...