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Zambia President jogs to make good decisions

Zambia President Edgar Chagwa Lungu (L), former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya during a morning run in Lusaka on October 20, 2018. President Lungu is encouraging Zambians to keep fit to avoid being 'restless and stressed'. PHOTO | COURTESY | NATION MEDIA GROUP

By  MICHAEL CHAWE

Soon after he became President after his predecessor Michael Sata Zambia President Edgar Lungu's health became a subject of heated debates across the country.

At the Women's Day celebrations in 2015, he collapsed due to what the presidency called a bowel condition.

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