- Title: Zambia: New President Frederick Chiluba Sworn In After Sweeping Election Victory
- Date: 25th August 1964
- Summary: Zambian Opposition leader Frederick Chiluba, who won a sweeping election victory over the country's veteran ruler, Kenneth Kaunda, was sworn in on November 2 as Zambia's new president. The new president, a 48-year-old trade union leader who campaigned on the slogan Time for Change, now faces tough and unpopular decisions to get the economy on track and win the confidence of the international aid community. Kenneth Kaunda entered politics in 1949 as a founder member of the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress. He became president at independence in 1964. Food riots in mid-1990 sparked a wide-spread campaign for a return to multi-party democracy and an end to the one-party state Kaunda had instituted 17 years earlier. Kaunda is the only major African statesman to have been ousted by popular vote.
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- Location: ZAMBIA
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