By BARNABAS ZULU PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema’s continued absence from regional meetings such as the recent Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe has raised concerns with Harry Kalaba describing the absence as diplomatic blunder with the potential to strain the country’s relation with her neighbours. And Dr Kalaba says is shocking that both the presidency and government in general are claiming that the UNHRC has cleared them of human rights abuses when the preliminary report has clearly convicted the UPND over rights violations. Mr Hichilema’s decision to miss physically the high-level emergency meeting on the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
Kalaba questions HH absence from SADC summit in Zim

Zambian presidential candidate for the opposition party United Party for National Development (UPND) Hakainde Hichilema gives a press conference at his residence, in Lusaka on August 11, 2021. - The UPND, the main rival to the ruling Patriotic Front (PF), is eager to tap into mounting disillusionment in the city's poorest neighbourhoods, where dissent has grown since the last 2016 poll. (Photo by Patrick Meinhardt / AFP)
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