Polls open in Zambia's tense economy-dominated election. All together, 16 candidates are vying for the top job, but the frontrunners are the incumbent Edgar Lungu and his nemesis, business tycoon Hakainde Hichilema, who between them garnered 97.9 percent of the ballots cast in the last election.

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