Timeline of Zambia: Difference between revisions

*'''2004 Sept''' - Many charges of corruption against former president [[Frederick Chiluba]] are dropped, but within hours he is re-arrested on six new charges.

*'''2004''' - White farmers from Zimbabwe moved to [[Zambia]] and leased some 150 farms.

*'''2005 Apr 8''' - In northern Zambia a truck packed with high school students skidded off a mountain road, killing at least 38 and seriously injuring 50.

*'''2005 Apr 21''' - At least 51 people were killed in a blast at a Chinese-owned mining-explosives factory in [[Chambishi]].

*'''2005 Aug 7''' - [[Zambia]] deported Haroon Rashid Aswat (31), a Briton who has been questioned in connection with the July 7 London transit bombings and is suspected of links to al-Qaida.

*'''2005 Oct 28''' - The UN food agency warned that at least 1.7 million Zambians need food, and the situation is deteriorating rapidly.

*'''2005''' - Zambia’s population stood at about 10.5 million.

*'''2006 Jun 17''' - Inflation was reported to have fallen under 10%. The [[Zambian Kwacha]] gained strength as the economy improved due to a lower debt burden and government moves toward a more market-oriented economy.

*'''2006 Jul 27''' - President [[Levy Mwanawasa]] called elections for Sept. 28 and dissolved parliament and Cabinet.

*'''2006 Oct 1''' - Rioting erupts in Lusaka after President [[Levy Mwanawasa]] surged ahead in presidential polls and his principal rival slipped into third place.

*'''2006 Oct 2''' - The [[Electoral Commission of Zambia]] (ECZ) said that President [[Levy Mwanawasa]] was re-elected to a second term, collecting 43% of the votes cast in last week's balloting.

*'''2006 Nov 17''' - The court rules that ailing former president [[Frederick Chiluba]] is currently unfit to stand trial for corruption and should be immediately sent to South Africa for treatment.

*'''2006 Dec 31''' - President [[Levy Mwanawasa]] rejects IMF directives to introduce more taxes in [[Zambia]] amid high levels of poverty.

*'''2006''' Employees at a Chinese owned copper mine in [[Chambishi]] were sprayed with gunfire while protesting working conditions.

*'''2007 Mar 1''' - Lands Minister [[Gladys Nyirongo]] acknowledges at a major conference on graft in Africa that "Corruption is everywhere, in the villages, wherever." Hours later she was sacked. President [[Levy Mwanawasa]] said: "She gave land to herself, her two daughters, her sons and her husband."

*'''2007 March''' Malawi arrests and deports Zambian opposition leader [[Michael Sata]] after he flew there on personal business and to meet former Malawi president Bakili Muluzi.

*'''2008 Nov 2''' - [[Elijah Mudenda]] dies at age 81 at [[Mina Medical Centre]] in [[Lusaka]].

*'''2009 Jul 20''' - Zambia's Catholic bishops and the International Press Institute condemned the arrest on obscenity charges of a newspaper editor who says she was trying to draw attention to the consequences of a health workers' strike. [[Chansa Kabwela]], editor of the independent [[The Post|Post], was arrested last week after e-mailing pictures of a woman giving birth in the streets to policy makers and aid groups.

*'''2009''' - [[Dambisa Moyo]], native of Zambia and former World Bank consultant, authored ''“Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way For Africa."''

*'''2009''' [[Zambian Airways]] is liquidated. The government refused to let foreign airlines use Lusaka as a hub in the unlikely event that the airline would one day fly again.

*'''2010 Oct 17''' - [[Zambia Police]] said managers at a Chinese-run coal mine who shot at workers protesting poor working conditions will be charged with attempted murder. 12 workers at [[Collum Coal Mine]] in the southern town of [[Sinazongwe]] were injured a day earlier when mainly Chinese managers fired randomly at the protesting workers.

==2011 - 2015==

*'''2011 Jun 18''' - Former president [[Frederick Chiluba]] (68) dies.

*'''2011 Aug 9''' - The [[High Court of Zambia]] dismissed a bid by the main opposition to block President Rupiah Banda from contesting polls next month over claims that he had lied about his parents' nationality.

*'''2012 Feb 3''' - Corruption investigators arrested a former minister on theft charges and recorded a statement from ex-president [[Rupiah Banda]]'s wife in another probe. Mines minister [[Maxwell Mwale]] was arrested and charged over the theft of 20 bicycles belonging to small-scale miners. The bicycles were worth K5,500 Kwacha (1,050 dollars, 800 euros) in total.

*'''2012 May 31''' - Investigators arrest [[Andrew Banda]], the oldest son of former president [[Rupiah Banda]], for corruption and possessing assets bought with "dirty money".

*'''2012 Aug 13''' - Opposition leader, [[Hakainde Hichilema]], is arrested and charged with publishing false information after he claimed on June 11 that ruling party youth were being trained by Sudanese militia.

*'''2013 Feb 7''' - A [[Zambia Postal Services]] bus carrying passengers toward its capital Lusaka, smashes into a semi-truck and another car killing at least 53 people in one of the worst traffic crashes in the nation in recent history.

*'''2013 Nov 1''' - Dozens of Zambian separatists appeared in court on charges of treason for trying to create a new state called [[Barotseland]] in the west of the country. A total of 84 defendants, mostly from the [[Lozi people|Lozi tribe]], were rounded up in a recent crackdown on those protesting for Barotseland.

*'''2013 Dec 23''' - Defense minister [[Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba]] resigns.

*'''2013 Dec 24''' - [[Edgar Lungu]] becomes  Minister of Defence after [[Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba]] resigned from his ministerial post.

*'''2014 Feb''': Nationwide strike after tax hike and public sector wage freeze prohibited salary increases and new hires.

*'''2014 Mar 21''' - Zambia scraps restrictions on the use of dollars and other foreign currencies as it tried to halt the slide in its currency, which has lost nearly a fifth of its value in recent months.

*'''2014 May 23''' - Ranger [[Dexter Chilunda]] is killed while investigating reports of gunshots in [[Liuwa Plain National Park]]. Two suspected poachers were arrested on June 1.

*'''2014 Oct 24''' - At least 26 people died, most of them children, when a ferry capsized on [[Lake Kariba]].

*'''2014 Nov 21''' - Ruling [[Patriotic Front]] said it has suspended President [[Guy Scott]] as acting head of the party for "unconstitutional conduct", in the latest twist of a bitter power struggle ahead of a January election.

*'''2015 Jan 20''' - Zambia holds [[Zambian presidential election, 2015|presidential elections]]. The winner of the election will serve out the remainder of late President [[Michael Sata]]’s term until elections next year. Patriotic Front candidate [[Edgar Lungu]] (58) received 48.3 percent of the vote, while [[Hakainde Hichilema]] (52) of the [[United Party for National Development]] came in second with 46.7 percent after votes were tallied from all [[List of Zambian parliamentary constituencies|150 constituencies]].

*'''2015 Jan 24''' - Opposition leader [[Hakainde Hichilema]] holds a briefing in which he described the Jan 20 election as a sham.

*'''2015 Jan 25''' - [[Edgar Lungu]] is [[President Edgar Lungu’s inauguration ceremony, 25 January 2015|inaugurated as the country’s new president]] after being declared the winner of [[Zambian presidential election, 2015|Zambia's Jan 20 presidential election]].

*'''2015 Apr 6''' - 17 people are killed when a light truck they were in hit a shop before turning over in [[Mazabuka]].

*'''2015 Apr 20''' - [[Zambia]] slashes by more than half a controversial mineral royalty tax after investors threatened to pull out of the copper-rich country.

==2016 - 2020==

==See also==

*[[History of Zambia]]