Michael Sata, ‘King Cobra’ President of Zambia, Dies
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Michael Sata, the Zambian labor-union activist who became president of Africa’s second-biggest copper-producing nation, has died. He was 77.
Sata died yesterday in London, where he had been receiving medical treatment, Rowland Msiska, secretary to the Zambian cabinet, said in an announcement broadcast today on state radio in the capital, Lusaka. Sata is the second Zambian leader to die in office after President Levy Mwanawasa died in France in 2008.