LONDON — After weeks of political wrangling and tension, Edgar Lungu was sworn in on Sunday as Zambia’s new president, overcoming a close political challenge and divisions within his own Patriotic Front party to secure a narrow majority in an election called after the death of his predecessor in October.
Mr. Lungu, who headed both the Justice and Defense Ministries in the previous government, will serve out the remainder of President Michael Sata’s term until new elections in the fall of 2016.
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Mr. Mugabe attended Sunday’s inauguration in Lusaka, the Zambian capital, and said he was confident that Mr. Lungu would “succeed to keep Zambia united,” Agence France-Presse reported “One Zambia, one nation,” Mr. Mugabe said, using a slogan popularized by Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president, who remained in office from independence in 1964 to 1991.
