President Michael Sata of
Zambia has died in
London, where he had
been receiving treatment
for an undisclosed illness,
three private Zambian
media outlets have said.
Reports on the private
Muzi television station
and two websites, Zambia
Reports and Zambian
Watchdog, said the
southern African nation’s
cabinet was about to
meet.
Government officials
gave no immediate
comment. The death of
Zambia’s president would
necessitate an election
within 90 days.
The reports said Sata died
on Tuesday evening at
London’s King Edward
VII hospital. The hospital
declined to comment.
Sata, 77, left Zambia for
medical treatment on 19
October accompanied by
his wife and family
members, according to a
brief government
statement that gave no
further details.
There has been no
official update on his
condition and the acting
president, Edgar Lungu,
had to lead celebrations
last week to mark the
landlocked nation’s 50th
anniversary of
independence from
Britain.
Concern over Sata’s
health has been
mounting in Africa’s
second-largest copper
producer since June
when he disappeared
from the public eye
without explanation and
was reported to be
getting medical treatment
in Israel.
He missed a scheduled
speech at the UN general
assembly in September
amid reports that he had
fallen ill in his New York
hotel. A few days before
that he had attended the
opening of parliament in
Lusaka, joking: “I am not
dead.”
Source Guardian UK

May his soul rest in peace.
And to all Zambians take heart