The United States recalled its ambassador to Zambia on Monday after he criticized the government for sending a gay couple to prison, and accused officials of stealing millions of dollars of public funds.Ambassador Daniel L. Foote had described the treatment of the gay couple as "horrifying"
The United States recalled its ambassador to Zambia on Monday after he criticized the government for sending a gay couple to prison, and accused officials of stealing millions of dollars of public funds.
“We don’t want such people in our midst. We want him gone,” Lungu told the state-owned television channel ZNBC on Sunday. Despite all the aid Zambia receives, the ambassador wrote, he had found it very difficult to get an audience with the president. Chama — whose stage name, Pilato, stands for People In Lyrical Arena Taking Over — has been targeted by the government multiple times. He was last arrested in Livingstone on Saturday while running a workshop on transparency and accountability, charged with unlawful assembly, and released two days later.
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