Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Zambia's Scott becomes Africa's first white leader in 20 years

File picture of Zambia's Vice President Guy Scott at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington By Chris Mfula LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's Guy Scott became Africa's first white head of state in 20 years on Wednesday after the president, "King Cobra" Michael Sata, died in a London hospital aged 77. Scott, a Cambridge-educated economist born to Scottish parents, had been Sata's vice president. He will be interim leader until an election in three months, making him the first white African leader since South Africa's F.W. de Klerk lost to Nelson Mandela in the 1994 election that ended apartheid. ...








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