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FORMER President Edgar Lungu has urged Zambians not to politicise the food security but ensure that production is enhanced so that the country should not descend into being food insecure. Former Lungu says Zambia would become a successful and politically stable if the country would remain food secure because without food, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":59806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-59807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DON\u2019T POLITICISE FOOD -Edgar Lungu - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dont-politicise-food-edgar-lungu-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DON\u2019T POLITICISE FOOD -Edgar Lungu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. 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