Former President Edgar Lungu has\u00a0died\u00a0while receiving medical treatment in South Africa. He was\u00a068.<\/p>\n
Lungu\u00a0served\u00a0as Zambia’s sixth president from 2015 to 2021, a period that was marked by major infrastructure projects as well as rising debt and economic difficulties. He lost re-election to Hakainde Hichilema in 2021 and kept a relatively low profile until recently, when he re-entered politics as an opposition candidate.<\/p>\n
President Hichilema described Lungu’s death as a tragic loss for the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former President Edgar Lungu has\u00a0died\u00a0while receiving medical treatment in South Africa. He was\u00a068. Lungu\u00a0served\u00a0as Zambia’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1.jpg",614,376,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1-300x184.jpg",300,184,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1.jpg",614,376,false],"large":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1.jpg",614,376,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1.jpg",614,376,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1.jpg",614,376,false],"wpucv-grid-three":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1.jpg",360,220,false],"wpucv-grid-two":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1.jpg",600,367,false],"wpucv-grid-one":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1.jpg",614,376,false],"wpucv-classic":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1.jpg",278,170,false],"wpucv-classic-small":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1.jpg",150,92,false],"wpucv-galary":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1.jpg",400,245,false],"covernews-slider-full":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1.jpg",614,376,false],"covernews-slider-center":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1.jpg",614,376,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1.jpg",614,376,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1-540x340.jpg",540,340,true],"covernews-medium-square":["https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/00660842_7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0_arc614x376_w614_us1-400x250.jpg",400,250,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor Author"]},"category_info":"Africa<\/a> Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}