{UAH} HIM DEAD: Where is Zambia's President?

Where is Zambia's President?

By Benny Avni

Filed: 9/25/14 at 8:22 PM  | Updated: 9/25/14 at 9:28 PM

Zambia's President Michael Chilufya Sata addresses the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, September 24, 2013. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine

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Filed Under: World, Michael Sata, United Nations, Zambia, Africa

A mystery no-show at the United Nations raises speculations about the state of health of Zambia's President, Michael Sata, who last week emphatically told the Lusaka parliament, "I am not dead."

A well-placed source at the U.N. told Newsweek that Sata died in his hotel room on Thursday. The Associated Press reports that the 77-year old president was treated at his hotel by State Department doctors and then rushed to a hospital. A police spokeswoman had no details on his condition. A spokesman at the Zambian mission declined comment when several reporters inquired about Sata's health.

The speculations started swirling Wednesday night, when Sata failed to show up for his scheduled address at the General Assembly, which this week conducts its annual debate, an opportunity for the U.N.'s 193 members to showcase their policies to the world. Sata was slated to follow Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro, Wednesday night.

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The U.N. moderator then received a notice, and after a short hesitation announced, instead, that the next speaker, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, would address the council. No alternative time for Sata's address was announced.

According to All Africa, a website specializing in reporting from the continent, Sata traveled to New York accompanied by six doctors as part of his entourage of 38 people. The report cited an unnamed source who said that the reason the president came to New York ahead of the launch of the Wednesday debate was to visit the Sloane Kettering cancer center.

Wires agencies reported last Friday that Sata addressed parliament after failing for a long time to appear in public, raising speculation about the state of his health. His wife, Christine kept him going, Sata told Parliament, adding, "I am not dead."

But rather than finishing his address, he said after a while, "I thank you for listening and I am leaving the whole speech to the Speaker."

An earlier version of this article incorrectly described a wire story on a South African website as appearing on a Zambian website. 

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Gwokto La'Kitgum

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