PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has encouraged other African countries to stay the course of conducting elections within their constitutional provisions. And President Hichilema has also encouraged other African countries to emulate Zambia by abolishing the death penalty law. In his address at the Summit for Democracy, Thursday, President Hichilema said as a continent, Africa was in agreement that free, fair and transparent elections were the cornerstone of democratic governance and should therefore live by that. “As a continent, we are all in agreement that free, fair and transparent elections are the cornerstone of democratic governance and we should live by that. We encourage each other to live by that, we encourage each other to stay the course of conducting elections within...

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