Zambia
Landlocked country in S central Africa, bounded N by the Democratic
Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) and Tanzania, E by Malawi, S by Mozambique,
Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia, and W by Angola.
Government
Zambia is an independent republic within the Commonwealth. The 1991
multiparty constitution provides for a president as head of state and
government and a single-chamber, 150-member national assembly. Both
are elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term, renewable only
once. The president governs with an appointed cabinet and is advised
by a 27-member House of Chiefs, consisting of four chiefs from each
of the country's nine provinces.
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