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Zambia elections: Preliminary results delayed
Zambia’s electoral officials have been criticised for attempting to announce unverified results.
The announcement of the results at Zambia’s electoral commission has been temporarily halted after criticism that some results had not been verified.
Plus the tragic journey of African migrants trying to make it to Europe but whose bodies were found in a boat that washed up in the Caribbean.
And this week the Resident Presidents mull over the lessons to be learnt from winners and losers.
Photo: A newspaper vendor in Lusaka, on the day after the elections. Credit: AFP.
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