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The President Who Died Abroad - Zambia's Unsettled Funeral War
The President Who Died Abroad - Zambia's Unsettled Funeral War
Grief turned into courtroom conflict the morning Edgar Chagwa Lungu died on June 5, 2025, at Mediclinic Medforum in Pretoria, and Zambia declared seven days of mourning for a body it could not yet bring home. How did a surgical death trigger a months-long legal and political battle that still hasn't settled where his coffin should rest?
In this episode, we trace the arc of Lungu’s life from Ndola Central Hospital in 1956 through a career as lawyer, soldier, and president, and then into the contested hours after his death - a…
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