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• President Hakainde Hichilema (left) with new US Ambassador to Zambia Mike Gonzales (centre) at State House yesterday.
Picture by ROYD SIBAJENE/ZANIS

By CHUSA SICHONE-
UNITED States (US) President Joe Biden has appointed Michael Gonzales as American Ambassador to Zambia, nearly three years after his predecessor Daniel Foote was recalled.
Mr Foote was recalled in December 2019 following a demarche the then Patriotic Front Government to Washington on what had been viewed as the American Ambassador’s act of interference in internal affairs after his condemnation of the High Court ruling to sentence a Kapiri-Mposhi gay couple to 15 years.

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