British Embassy closes in Zambia

The British Embassy has said goodbye to Zambia, to apply for a VISA to the UK, one has to go to South Africa.

Despite that Zambia was colonized by Britain, and that South Africa is less British, Zambians will have to go to South Africa if they are interested in going to UK.

According to sources in the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Britain has notified the government that they are closing down all its operations in Zambia and that people will have to go to South Africa for VISAs.

The source explained that, the decision has been influenced by appalling violations of Human Rights by the government and weaker policies to tackle corruption and good governance among Government officials.

However, trade and other partnership between Zambia and Britain will remain intact for now, but it seems this is threatened as time goes on.

Usually, diplomatic ties between nations are ended when there is shift of allegiances between or among partners.

Currently, Zambia is advocating the pulling out of ICC and K2 million will be spent on ‘consulting’ people but countries with the idea of ICC remaining, think it is unnecessary and irresponsible for any Government to spend such monies to consult on whether or not to stop it’s leaders from being accountable of their acts.

The case of accountability of African leaders has often times been a topic of discussion by the Western powers – African leaders on the other side accuse the ICC of selective Justice as a result some of them such as Mugabe, Mseveni, Kabila want out of ICC. President Lungu has also been accused of indirectly and silently pushing for Zambia to pull out from the ICC.