PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania arrives in Zambia today for a State visit during which he will hold talks with President Lungu, and is expected to return to his country tomorrow.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Harry Kalaba said on Monday that apart from Mr Kikwete, presidents Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique and Peter Mutharika of Malawi are also expected in Zambia over the next three days.
Mr Kikwete and Mr Lungu will also discuss the status of Tazara, which is co-owned by the two countries.
Presidents Nyusi and Mutharika will arrive in Zambia on Saturday to attend the Nc’wala ceremony at Mtenguleni in Chipata.
Mr Kalaba also said that Ghanaian President John Mahama will visit Zambia at the end of April.
uku manje ni ku oneselamo Sata,,, all these presidents coming to Zambia who never did when Sata was there,,, why now??
In international Relations these visits at a high level are used as measures of confidence level in a country’s stability, security, respect, and perceived value of leadership as well as democracy. As a nation state, we are on track on all benchmarks. President Lungu deserves our support.
@Senior Citizen
dont just jump around with praises,,, why was this not happening in Sata`s time??!!!,,,
#1.2, Presidential leadership is of different attributes. Some leaders are introverts and unilateralists. Others are extroverts or multilateralists who prefer to build bridges for constructive mutually benefiting relations than burning them. During campaigns we did bring out compelling leadership traits
identified in president Lungu whom we unflinchingly support in exeutive decisions so far are indisputably for the common good of the country. He is a natural consensus builder a trait well picked up by his colleagues in the international arena.
Has Kikwete also come to discuss how to revamp Tazara after the Euro bond meant to revamp it disappeared?
What really happened to the $750 million Eurobond mean’t to revamp the railways? I don’t think the works carried out, together with purchase of a second hand train from South Africa gobbled up all the money.
international etiquette and diplomacy
The President Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu is an intelligent man and he know that Zambia cannot develop by being an island. The President must be very careful with Minister of Finance Mr. Chikwanda because he still believes he can misled Mr. Lungu the way he did to Mr. Sata.
The Post know very well that Mr. Chiwanda was misleading Mr. Sata and if he left unchecked, we would also want to mislead the President on many important issues. Mr. Chikwanda, as Nawakwi has in the past pointed out thinks he knows everything but we all know the economy has not been doing very good as it should because of him. He intimidates everyone at his own Ministry and interferes with other Ministries where has vested interests. The President Mr. Lungu must be careful with Chikwanda, he eats with both hands.
Zambian politics will never be the same since Michael Sata. We have now adopted the West African kind of politics where leaders are purely in government to loot big time. There is no fear and care now. The standard is Sata who borrowed billions of dollars and used the funds without accountability. No one knows how many billions went to himself. Upon seeing what Sata could do, Rupiah Banda regretted limiting himself from totally plundering the national coffers and is now back to finish off Zambia. We are now in the 80s to 90s era of Nigeria. PF will still borrow big time even for repaying loans so that they can plunder much of the millions of dollars. There will never be true democracy anymore where a ruling party can be removed from power like what happened in 2011. Democracy has been…
Democracy has been destroyed too and the incumbent government will continue ruling by manipulating all systems including ECZ. It already started with the way Lungu was elected leader of PF by the raising of fists, pangas and stones in their hands. It is no wonder Edgar Lungu has aligned himself with Mugabe, Kagame and Dos Santos early in his rule. He wants absolute power and he’s learning from these masters of suppression of the masses. Simply writing articles in the papers to influence the masses against the government like what the Post Newspaper did to remove RB from power will no longer work in Zambia.
The Cobra’s death was a blessing in disguise. What a breather! We can now receive other neighbouring heads of state than the dreaded Robert Mugabe just within a month of the new govt. The Cobra’s carcass must be spinning in it’s grave!
This is a progressive development for our country as well as our brothers visiting us. The bilateral relations manifests a spirit of brotherhood, interdependence, mutual trust, and willingness to keep a political order of dialogue and shared regional intelligence at a high level. Congratulations to Presideny Lungu and the our people whose maturity gives our neighbours to gain confidence in visiting the Zambia.
@ Senior Citizen
Bottom line, can you explain WHY no body visited Zambia from 2011 to date?
Please, stop putting spin on obvious. Just admit that you are professional apologist.
Personalities of the person holding the presidency does matter. We never so such enthusiasm to visit Zambia from these African Presidents during the period Mr. Lungu’s predecessor was president.
Whilst your blog makes sense, it would have been even much more perfect if you used ”do” and not ”does” (syntax) and ”saw” and not ”so”(spelling). All the same i got the gist,thanks!
Let Sata rest in peace.Is Zambia going to be better-off under Lungu? We are in for a rule shock under this PF cadres.
Even while landlocked No one visited president Sata. Now all of a sudden presidents are visiting; even from as far as Ghana. Viva Nawakwi.
And what does that tell you? Read Senior Citizen’s blogs above, it’s all about either one is an introvert or the opposite. Simple, perception bwana and by the way may you please let Mr. Michael Chilufya Sata’s soul rest in eternal peace?
Indeed, this is very good. It is because the President respects his Ministers who he has delegated his authority to unlike the way it was in the past were Ministers were afraid to carry out their duties to support and help the President deliver.
What you should NOT forget is that these countries have missions in
Zambia and they brief their principals back home. So some Ministers like Chikwanda must realize that Mr. Lungu is the President of Zambia and he should respect his decisions and NOT interfere in other Ministries simply because he controls the treasury.
The PF has only 16 months left before elections and we need to be serious and work instead of undermining the President’s authority. When decisions are made, lets respect and support them.
sata was disliked by other African heads of state. you dont have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out.
They knew he was an ID!OT.
No point in talking to a F00L, you might look like one yourself.
Sata (mhsrip) to some extent was rude. He always diverted from the speech written for him. When he took his eyes off the written speech while addressing people, you had to hold your breath because you just never knew what out-of-this-world words would come out of his mouth and those words sometimes brought us trouble.
The only reason why these thieving African leaders disliked Sata is because he was pro-poor as evidenced by the much infrastructure development Zambia experienced which was not appealing to most African Presidents because they thot he was setting a bad precedent of delivering to the poor instead of stealing, not puppet to western powers hence his association with Mugabe, was very open to African issues and lastly he hated pretenders.
Sata hated corruption. So leaders on the continent who are corrupt cant visit him.
Hahahaha. Good joke!
Like Mugabe?
Face the fact. Sata was the biggest disaster Zambia has ever seen.
Stop talking about who visited who when and why before. Let us talk about what is happening now. Can’t we just be happy and proud for once that Zambia is showing prudent and amicable international relationship with our respected neighbours. This is how we would like our country to move forward and digging on the visits that never happened before is just negative view of your country. Lets support what’s good for Zambia and denounce what’s bad constructively. I have a feeling that some people are never content when things start looking good for the country just because of their political affiliation. Zambia has to be first – political parties come and go.
Who are you to tell anyone what they should talk about, ni chalo cha nyoko chino?
Edagar is a president for all Zambian,he’s a peace maker and a president who listens to people’s views.he wants to develop this country and that’s all these presidents are visiting
Nation now on right tract.
@wanzelu, ZRL and not Tazara got eurobond.
And he claims to be Wanzelu, shame!
Hey I thought it was meant for revamping all railway transport in Zambia.
What ever the case I can not see how it was spent exactly.
Attanga and his team must also go.
I loved Sata, M.H.S.R.I.P. Sata had some dictatorial kind of leadership. Edgar Lungu is a meek and accomodating leader. So here we have the PF with a Pro-social manifesto but different kind of leaders. EL is more modern style.
Karibu Zambia Kikwete.
Timulonjerani a Mtharika.
I do not know any Portuguese I should have welcomed the Mozambican President.
You can say (Bem-vindo ao sr Presidente da Zambia) that’s Portuguese.
This could be very good news or very bad news, the line is thin here..for me it just loooks like there is a party here and pie is being shared..lets be careful.. its like daddy dies, mommy re-marries. step dad starts bringing many friends over and going over for ‘discussions’…it could be dangerous
You chaps leave Sata alone. Do you have statistics on who visited Zambia in the previous governments?
Its because of people like Minister of Finance Chikwanda who were nominated as MPs and have held very critical Ministerial position since 2011. The man is tired and hopefully will let the new Bank of Governor and others work without his interference.
It is people like Mr. Chikwanda who President Lungu must be very careful with. Why wasn’t he collecting taxes from the Post newspaper since 2011 and only try to work now after the President warned non tax payers companies? Has he explained to the President why copper prices is falling? What is his plan B on diversification for instance?
The rating of Zambia by institutions is not as a result of some board or an individual being replaced but the performance of the entire economy. This man must not mislead the President.
so far Egar so good this is what we want, no country is an island we need each other. Haters can continue boiling in hate.other wise it Lung till 2021
leave sata to rest in peace, we have edgar now. let understand people are different and will always act differently. don’t be let your hatred for the man follow him up to the grave
As the bembas say, akachila kabushi kakutila ipokekele, which means a goats tail can only clean where its sitting, why go about repairing the international image when more than 60 percent of your people live on less than $1.00 per day and the kwacha is ruining in different directions.
Start sorting out the local problems first, sort out the mines, the kwacha, the unemployment, street vending, drugs in hospitals, violence in markets etc.
These are the things affecting people who voted for you and not foreign policy.
I am sure you meant ‘Akachila kambushi kasengula apo kekele’ but point taken.
I have envied Kikwete’s style of leadership.Having lived in Tanzania for a while, i truly admire his plans for the rural majority and just the way he conducts his day to day affairs for TZ. Muze wa ba Ze. He is a democratic. Look at the way the country has developed over the last few years, it has overtaken Zambia by far. The comparisons between Sata’s time and now is irrelevant to this discussion. Please learn to stick to issues at hand in order to make progress!
However, you should all watch Lungu’s body language. He will never walk with his head high because PF stole the election for him from HH and he knows it! He did not win the election. He is like Masumba who got a job using a forged certificate. What a shame!
Whether with his head high or not, he is the current president of Zed and will be hosting his fellow president from TZ while your ‘confident’ HH will be hosting ZWD editors. And if lungu managed to ”steal” the last election from your under 5 when he was nowhere near state machinery, then 2016 will be worse. With this bitterness of yours, you must be very boring to your wives at home
Langford naimwe, same story everyday. Move on already. Even VJ confirmed that PF won fair and square and that there was no malpractice. If you lose in 2016, you will still sing the same song,? Come on that dog does’nt bite anymore
Meanwhile thanks to the PF our economy is in the gutter. Lungu is practicing protocol and etiquette. Before one can worry about how Zambia is viewed by other countries he should be worried about the plight of poverty stricken people in Zambia. Instead he cares more for his image in other countries. Lol It just goes to show that Lungu is just a figure head and president Chikwanda is in charge atleast as far as our economy is concerned. The only domestic issue policy Lungu has weighed on was on the mining tax and President Chikwanda shut that down. All Lungu has done since is busy meeting the Kaundas of other countries. Too timid to take up any domestic issue why be president. Our healthcare, education agriculture and economy need urgent attention the president is busy taking photos. WTYS.
Other African presidents avoided Sata because of his rudeness and luck of etiquette. EL is concerned about Zambia’s image internationally. Will that improve the economy and put food on ordinary Zambians’ table? Time will tell.
They are coming because they can work with His Excellency president Lungu.
We have a raised profile because of him.
God Bless His Excellency President Lungu
God bless Zambia
Peace, love and Shalom to the world
Its not about who it is who says what! Its about building Zambia and being patriotic of your country in a positive manner. I don’t believe that Lungu alone will build this Zambia. You talk of SATA as corrupt and disaster.What about you who is talking, what have done for this country? Can you sure that you are free of corruption? Think about it and from today take an active step starting with you and your family towards building a better Zambian.