Here's what you need to know about emerging markets this week, from the WSJ
News and analysis on the frontier markets
In a bid to defuse a potential postelection crisis, Kenya’s re-elected president urged the country’s opposition leader, Raila Odinga, to order his supporters off the streets and to take his claims of vote-rigging to the courts, Matina Stevis writes. In an in-depth report on the post-election mood in Nairobi, Stevis and Africa bureau chief Joe Parkinson find the hotly contested election has laid bare Kenya’s tribal and economic divisions. Zambia’s jailed opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema, was released from prison on Wednesday. The move to end Hichilema’s four-month detention came amid mounting international pressure on President Edgar Lungu. Zambia’s High Court ruled that Hichilema should be freed after the state prosecutor dropped treason charges against the 55-year-old businessman. The release appeared to mark a retreat by Lungu from a crackdown on opposition since narrowly winning elections in 2016. Hichilema, who had been charged with trying to overthrow the government, had b...
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