Zambia to repatriate Lungu’s remains from South Africa

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2025-06-16

$WINDHOEK, 20 March 2015 - President of Zambia Edgar Lungu pictured while attending Namibia\'s 25th Silver Jubilee celebration dinner at Safari Hotel. (Photo by: Joseph Nekaya) NAMPA$ WINDHOEK, 20 March 2015 - President of Zambia Edgar Lungu pictured while attending Namibia\'s 25th Silver Jubilee celebration dinner at Safari Hotel. (Photo by: Joseph Nekaya) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 16 JUN (NAMPA) – The Government of Zambia has confirmed that the remains of former President Edgar Chagwa Lungu will be repatriated from South Africa on Wednesday, following his death earlier this month.
Lungu, Zambia’s sixth President, died on 05 June 2025 at a hospital in South Africa.
In a statement issued to Nampa on Monday, Zambia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mulambo Haimbe expressed gratitude to the...

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