Ce qui devait \u00eatre un adieu digne \u00e0 l’ancien pr\u00e9sident zambien Edgar Lungu s’est transform\u00e9 en impasse diplomatique et politique, aboutissant au d\u00e9placement de ses fun\u00e9railles hors du pays qu’il dirigeait autrefois.<\/p>\n
Lungu, d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 plus t\u00f4t ce mois-ci dans un h\u00f4pital sud-africain des suites d’une maladie non r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9e, ne sera pas inhum\u00e9 en Zambie. Sa famille a choisi de l’enterrer en Afrique du Sud, invoquant un d\u00e9saccord croissant avec le gouvernement zambien concernant les modalit\u00e9s des obs\u00e8ques.<\/p>\n
Au c\u0153ur de la querelle se trouve la demande de la famille que le pr\u00e9sident Hakainde Hichilema, rival politique de longue date de Lungu, n’assiste pas aux fun\u00e9railles. Ce diff\u00e9rend a fait \u00e9chouer les efforts visant \u00e0 rapatrier le corps de Lungu et \u00e0 rassembler la nation dans le deuil.<\/p>\n
Makebi Zulu, avocat et porte-parole de la famille, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que l’enterrement priv\u00e9 en Afrique du Sud r\u00e9pondait aux souhaits des proches du d\u00e9funt pr\u00e9sident.<\/p>\n
\u00ab Nous remercions tout particuli\u00e8rement le gouvernement sud-africain d’avoir respect\u00e9 la d\u00e9cision de la famille \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 M. Zulu.<\/p>\n
En r\u00e9ponse, le pr\u00e9sident Hichilema a annonc\u00e9 l’annulation du deuil national de 16 jours d\u00e9cr\u00e9t\u00e9 en Zambie, d\u00e9clarant dans une allocution t\u00e9l\u00e9vis\u00e9e que \u00ab notre pays ne peut se permettre un deuil ind\u00e9fini \u00bb.<\/p>\n
\u00ab Nous avons tout mis en \u0153uvre pour impliquer la famille \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 M. Hichilema, ajoutant qu’une d\u00e9cision d\u00e9finitive devait \u00eatre prise pour pr\u00e9server la stabilit\u00e9 nationale.<\/p>\n
Lungu, 68 ans, a \u00e9t\u00e9 le sixi\u00e8me pr\u00e9sident de la Zambie de 2015 \u00e0 2021 et est rest\u00e9 une figure politique influente m\u00eame apr\u00e8s sa d\u00e9faite face \u00e0 M. Hichilema. Leur rivalit\u00e9 acharn\u00e9e a notamment donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une accusation de trahison contre M. Hichilema en 2017 et, plus r\u00e9cemment, \u00e0 des accusations de la famille de M. Lungu selon lesquelles le gouvernement aurait tent\u00e9 de l’emp\u00eacher de se faire soigner \u00e0 l’\u00e9tranger \u2013 une all\u00e9gation que les autorit\u00e9s d\u00e9mentent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Une querelle familiale contraint l’ancien pr\u00e9sident zambien Edgar Lungu \u00e0 \u00eatre enterr\u00e9 en Afrique du Sud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":7,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"topbottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[55,3417,1473],"class_list":["post-15611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-suivis","tag-afrique-du-sud","tag-ancien-president-zambien","tag-edgar-lungu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}