Zambia

The Carter Center has worked in Zambia to promote peace through food security programming and by helping to ensure that elections truly represent the will of the people.

Waging Peace

A December 2001 observation mission for the presidential and parliamentary elections in Zambia reported that vote-counting procedures sometimes were chaotic and that the tabulation of results in constituency centers and at the Electoral Commission was not fully transparent. The delegation, which was co-led by former Nigeria head of state Abdulsalami Abubakar, former Benin President Nicéphore Soglo, and former Tanzania Prime Minister Joseph Warioba, lauded the large voter turnout and voters' patience with long lines and procedural delays at polling sites. On Jan. 2, 2002, the governing party candidate, Levy Mwanawasa, was sworn in as president, having won just 29 percent of the vote and narrowly defeating a divided opposition, which lodged claims of vote-rigging.

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Fighting Disease

Led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Norman Borlaug until his death in 2009, Sasakawa-Global 2000, a joint venture between the Carter Center's Global 2000 Program and the Sasakawa Africa Association, shared knowledge of improved seed and planting techniques to help farmers improve agricultural production in Zambia.

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