Zambia resumes vote counting after violence halts election process

Alleged attacks on polling staff resulted in theft of marked ballot papers, though no casualty figures reported.

In the days following a largely peaceful election, Zambia's democratic institutions faced their quietest but most consequential test: not at the ballot box, but in the tallying centres where marked papers went missing and polling staff were attacked. The electoral commission paused the nationwide count on Friday before resuming it under a security assurance, with results due by Sunday — a deadline that carries the weight of a nation's reputation for stability. At stake is not only who governs Zambia next, but whether the machinery of democratic accountability can hold when the pressures of eco

Zambia resumes vote counting after violence halts election process

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