Zambia s President Sata dies: local media Last updated : 23 minutes ago Sata , who was 77, had been receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness . Zambian President Michael Sata has died in London, where he had been receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness , three private Zambian media outlets said. The reports on the private Muzi television station, and the Zambia Reports and Zambian Watchdog websites, said the southern African nation s cabinet was about to meet . Government officials gave no immediate comment. The reports said Sata had died on Tuesday evening at London s King Edward VII hospital . The hospital declined to comment. Sata , 77 , left Zambia for medical treatment on October 19 accompanied by his wife and family members, according to a brief government statement that gave no further details . There has been no official update on his condition and acting president Edgar Lungu had to lead celebrations last week to mark the landlocked nation s 50th anniversary of independence from Britain . Concern over Sata s health has been mounting in the country since June , when he disappeared from the public eye without explanation and was then reported to be getting medical treatment in Israel. He missed a scheduled speech at the UN General Assembly in September amid reports that he had fallen ill in his New York hotel . A few days before that, he had attended the opening of parliament in Lusaka, joking : I am not dead . Sata has not been seen in public since he returned to Zambia from New York in late September. Sata , who once worked as a railway porter in London, had been the country s president since September, 2011 after winning a tight presidential race against the then incumbent, Rupiah Banda
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 05:48:07 +0000
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