Data · topic · Zambia 2026
Economy & cost of living
20of the analyzable domestic political ads in the run-up to Zambia's 2026 election touch on economy & cost of living — 14 promotional, 3 attack.
Who runs these ads
- Hakainde Hichilema — 7 ads
- Democratic Union — 4 ads
- Choolwe Chibomba (commentator) — 4 ads
- The Zed Politics — 1 ads
- Patrick Chikwanda (Makeni) — 1 ads
Sample ad text
We hear you, Zambia. Life is still too hard. The job is not finished. We will lower the cost of living and create more jobs. Let's finish the job together. Vote HH on August 13.…
Fellow Citizens, NHIMA was a good idea. It helped millions. But today, NHIMA is sick itself. Services that used to be covered have been removed. Hospitals are rejecting NHIMA patients because NHIMA is failing to pay service providers. Our…
Remember the cadres at the markets and bus stops. The debt they defaulted on. The kwacha they crashed. The K1.5 billion in road deals nobody can explain. Now the same PF is back, with a new name. Why trust them again? Zambia cannot afford t…
Topic classification is model-assisted (measured 86% accuracy on our evaluation set) and covers only ads whose text Meta did not withhold; see methodology.