Well, Zambia has a new president: Mr Michael Sata.
The election was held this wednesday. Throughout the preceding week I was frequently passed by campaign cars stickered over with advertisements, waving flags, and proclaiming the praises of a candidate via loud speaker. Both schools and the hospital were running tight on staff because everyone goes back to their (often far away) birthplace to vote. I was asked many times to pray about the election, and it was definitely a big topic over the last few missionary prayer meetings. Zambia has had peace for many years and the people realise the blessing of this and are anxious that it will stay this way.
It is too early to tell what changes will occur as the result of the change of office, but as a Zambian man said ‘we’ll just sit on the bus and see where the president drives us’… we are praying that Mr Sata will be a wise leader.
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