“Let us stop the façade that our governments enjoy ‘warm and cordial’ relations,” the ambassador said earlier this month.
The blunt assessment issued on the eve of World AIDS Day touched on a range of topics from corruption—accusing “government officials [of] stealing millions of dollars in public funds”—to the Zambian government’s treatment of homosexuality.
read. “Lamentably, I will be unable to attend tomorrow’s AIDS Day events because of threats made against me, via various media, over my comments on the harsh sentencing of homosexuals.”the U.S. asking for Foote’s removal. “We have complained officially to the American government, and we are waiting for their response,” President Edgar Lungu said on Dec. 15. Lungu also hit back against the American diplomat’s comments on a state-owned television channel Sunday.
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