Harry Kalaba

Harry Kalaba (born 12 June 1976) is a Zambian politician and the current president for the Citizens First Party. He had served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Zambia from March 2014 to January 2018. He is a former member of Patriotic Front. He served as the Member of Parliament for Bahati from August 2011 to January 2019.

After leaving the Patriotic Front party in 2019, he was chosen to stand as the presidential candidate at the 2021 Zambian general election for the Democratic Party. In July 2022, he left the Democratic Party after several issues and in October 2022, he became the president of the newly-created Citizens First Party.

== Political career ==

Harry Kalaba stood as the Patriotic Front candidate in Bahati constituency at the 2011 general election and was elected as a member of parliament. In August 2012, President Michael Sata appointed Kalaba as the deputy minister in the Office of the Vice-President.

On 12 September 2013, Kalaba was appointed as the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources. On 11 March 2014, Sata moved Kalaba to being the Minister of Foreign Affairs. After Edgar Lungu became the head of state in January 2015, he retained Kalaba as the Foreign Affairs Minister...