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 ...

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 ...

Arranging a funeral can be testing at the best of times - let alone for a former head of state. Amid that intense, initial stage of grief, loved ones must juggle cost, the wishes of the deceased and ...

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 ...

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’s second President, Frederick Chiluba is every bit as controversial in death as he was alive. Chiluba’s funeral wake, a tradition in Zambian where mourners gather from the day a person dies up ...