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Zambia is under a '''[[state of emergency]]''', which was announced by [[President Lungu]] on 5 July by invoking Article 31 of the Zambian constitution.<ref name=SOE>{{cite news|title=President Lungu Declares State Of Emergency |url= https://zambiareports.com/2017/07/05/president-lungu-declares-state-emergency/ |issue=6 July 2014|publisher=Zambia Reports}}</ref> This [[ President Lungu’s Speech to the Nation on the Declaration Relating to Threatened Emergency|proclamation]] was the then taken before parliament in order to seek parliament's approval to impose a state of emergency after fire gutted Zambia's biggest market which was said to have been politically motivated arson. Amos Chanda stated that the state of national emergency was deemed necessary to restore public order and that civil liberties such as free movement had not been suspended.<ref name=SOEz>{{cite news|title=Zambia parliament approves 90-day state of emergency|url= http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/07/zambia-parliament-approves-90-day-state-emergency-170711200535989.html |issue=12 JULY 2017|publisher=Aljazeera.com}}</ref>
'''Zambia is under a [[state of emergency]]''', which was announced by [[President Lungu]] on 5 July by invoking Article 31 of the Zambian constitution.<ref name=SOE>{{cite news|title=President Lungu Declares State Of Emergency |url= https://zambiareports.com/2017/07/05/president-lungu-declares-state-emergency/ |issue=6 July 2014|publisher=Zambia Reports}}</ref> This [[ President Lungu’s Speech to the Nation on the Declaration Relating to Threatened Emergency|proclamation]] was the then taken before parliament in order to seek parliament's approval to impose a state of emergency after fire gutted Zambia's biggest market which was said to have been politically motivated arson. Amos Chanda stated that the state of national emergency was deemed necessary to restore public order and that civil liberties such as free movement had not been suspended.<ref name=SOEz>{{cite news|title=Zambia parliament approves 90-day state of emergency|url= http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/07/zambia-parliament-approves-90-day-state-emergency-170711200535989.html |issue=12 JULY 2017|publisher=Aljazeera.com}}</ref>


== Timeline of events leading up to the proclamation==
== Timeline of events leading up to the proclamation==

Revision as of 22:48, 13 July 2017

Zambia is under a state of emergency, which was announced by President Lungu on 5 July by invoking Article 31 of the Zambian constitution.[1] This proclamation was the then taken before parliament in order to seek parliament's approval to impose a state of emergency after fire gutted Zambia's biggest market which was said to have been politically motivated arson. Amos Chanda stated that the state of national emergency was deemed necessary to restore public order and that civil liberties such as free movement had not been suspended.[2]

Timeline of events leading up to the proclamation

Lifting of the proclamation

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