Zambia’s Lungu cleared to run in 2021

Zambian President Edgar Lungu. PHOTO | AFP

Zambia’s Constitutional Court Friday ruled that incumbent President Edgar Lungu is eligible to contest the 2021 polls.

The court ruled that anything under "three years did not constitute a term" and that the two years President Lungu spent in power after his predecessor Michael Sata's death in 2015 did not count as such.