Hakainde Hichilema, shortly after he won the election to become president, in Lusaka, Zambia, on Aug. 16, 2021. Patrick Meinhardt/AFP via Getty Images
U.S. international aid cuts were “long overdue,” Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema said in comments printed on Oct. 8.
Hichilema said that the reductions from Washington, the abolition of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and cuts to other international handouts had given the southern African nation the opportunity to take care of its own affairs.
