ZAMBIANS are calling us people who are waking up the dead from the graveyard and bringing the dead back to life, says President Hakainde Hichilema. And President Hichilema says the energy and electricity deficit has distorted government’s economic reconstruction plans. Speaking at the Zambia Power Development Forum in Beijing, China, Wednesday, President Hichilema said his administration was reviving a lot of dead sectors. “Following last year’s decisions to upgrade our relationship to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, I must say thank you to President Xi Jinping of China again at this point. We created a framework on how we will work together even deeper, but we didn’t just end there, we want further to isolate specific priority projects that we...

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