Zambia’s founding president Kenneth Kaunda Passed away

Kenneth Kaunda, the founding president of Zambia passed away recently at the age of 97.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021

Popularly known by his initials KK, Kaunda was nicknamed by some “Africa’s Gandhi” for his non-violent, independence-related activism in the 1960s.

Zambia is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa.

Its neighbors are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique to the southeast, Zimbabwe and Botswana to the south, Namibia to the southwest, and Angola to the west.

The capital city of Zambia is Lusaka. The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is headquartered in Lusaka.