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Thoroughly deserved. I hope he and the Zambian President are copied throughout the continent.

An element of corruption and its baneful effect on national development is the stealing of forex and the sending of it overseas. A common crime of plunders of nations well documented in history. Its harm is seen in that value of forex instead of being sent abroad could be spent in the nation for its development. But even if not spent in the nation but saved in the nation it would lead to domestic currency stability and reduction of imported inflation both highly beneficial to a nation's and the citizen's prosperity.

A Sudanese business man, used to give a prize to the least corrupt, was it, African President. I don't know if the prize still is awarded. The Malawian and Zambian Presidents must be rivals forcing if it still is awarded.

A disaster for African nations has been bad presidents who plunder the nation often for decades. A good president eventually comes along but it takes a long time to fix decades of destruction.

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