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|Participants=[[President of Zambia|President-elect]]: [[Hakainde Hichilema]]<br /> [[Vice President of Zambia|Vice President]]: [[Mutale Nalumango]]
|Date={{Start date|2021|8|24|df=yes}}
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|Location=[[National Heroes Stadium]], [[Lusaka]]
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The '''inauguration of Hakainde Hichilema''' as the [[President of Zambia|7th President of Zambia]] will be held on 24 August 2021. President-elect Hichilema won by a landslide with over 996,000 votes between him and the [[Incumbent]] president [[Edgar Lungu]] who got 1,814, 201 votes in the [[2021 Zambian general election|August 2021 presidential election]]. Hakainde Hichilema is set to take the oath alongside [[Mutale Nalumango]] as the Vice-president of Zambia. Inauguration of Hakainde Hichilema
The venue for the inauguration is [[National Heroes Stadium|Hero Stadium]] but attendance is restricted to invited guests only due to the [[COVID-19|Covid-19]] preventive protocols. The day of the inauguration was set as a public holiday in Zambia by President Edgar Lungu.

== Dignitaries to Attende ==
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!Country
!Title
!Dignitary
|-
|{{flag|South Africa}}
|President
|[[Cyril Ramaphosa]]
|-
|{{Flag|Malawi}}
|President and [[Southern African Development Community|Chairperson Southern African Development Community]]
|[[Lazarus Chakwera]]
|-
|{{Flag|Botswana}}
|President
|[[Mokgweetsi Masisi]]
|-
|{{Flag|Zimbabwe}}
|President
|[[Emmerson Mnangagwa]]
|-
|{{Flag|Democratic Republic of the Congo|Democratic Republic of Congo}}
|President and [[Chairperson of the African Union]]
|[[Félix Tshisekedi]]
|-
|{{Flag|Eswatini}}
|President
|
|-
|{{Flag|Kenya}}
|President and Chairperson of the [[East African Community]]
|[[Uhuru Kenyatta]]
|-
|{{Flag|Mozambique}}
|President
|[[Filipe Nyusi]]
|-
|{{Flag|Namibia}}
|President
|[[Hage Geingob]]
|-
|{{Flag|Tanzania}}
|President
|[[Samia Suluhu Hassan]]
|}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Country
!Title
!Dignitary
|-
| rowspan="3" |{{flag|US}}
|Acting Director of the United States Trade and Development Agency
|Ms. Enoh T. Ebong
|-
|Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Africa
|Ms. Dana L. Banks
|-
|Chargé d’Affaires, ad interim U.S. Embassy Lusaka
|Mr. David J. Young
|}

== References ==
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[[Category:2021 in Zambian politics]]
[[Category:Zambia presidential inaugurations|Hakainde Hichilema]]