title: 2022 in Zambia
text: # 2022 in Zambia
  
  Events in the year 2022 in Zambia
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  | Photo | Post | Name |
  | - | - | - |
  | Kamala Harris meets with Hakainde Hichilema | President of Zambia | Hakainde Hichilema |
  | | Vice President of Zambia | W.K. Mutale Nalumango |
  
  ## Events
  
  * 24 March – The World Health Organization announces that a polio vaccination campaign will begin in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia.
  * 24 June – Zambia reports the first suspected cases of monkeypox.
  * 15 December – Police in Zambia arrest a truck driver alleged to have transported 27 Ethiopian migrants found dead on the outskirts of Lusaka on Sunday. The bodies were dumped in a farm.
  * 23 December – Zambia officially abolishes capital punishment.
  
  ## Deaths
  
  ### March
  
  * 11 March – Rupiah Banda, 85, 4th Republican President of Zambia
  
  ### May
  
  * 3 May - Alexander Chikwanda, 83, Finance Minister of Zambia from 2011 to 2016.
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Zambia women's national football team Qualifies for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time.
  * Zambia national football team win the 2022 COSAFA Cup
  