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Zambia gets white president in Guy Scott

October 29, 2014
Zambia's vice president Guy Scott greets defense and security chiefs shortly after taking over as acting president, following the death in London on late Tuesday of President Michael Sata, Lusaka, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014. Scott, a white Zambian of Scottish descent, became the country's acting president on Wednesday, making him the first white leader of a sub-Saharan African nation since F.W. de Klerk, the apartheid-era head of South Africa who was voted out of power in 1994. (AP Photo)

Zambia’s vice president Guy Scott greets defense and security chiefs shortly after taking over as acting president, following the death in London on late Tuesday of President Michael Sata, Lusaka, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014. Scott, a white Zambian of Scottish descent, became the country’s acting president on Wednesday, making him the first white leader of a sub-Saharan African nation since F.W. de Klerk, the apartheid-era head of South Africa who was voted out of power in 1994. (AP Photo)

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambia’s vice president Guy Scott, a white Zambian of Scottish descent, became the country’s acting president on Wednesday, making him the first white leader of a sub-Saharan African nation since 1994 when South Africa moved to majority rule.

The appointment of Guy Scott as Zambia’s acting president until elections are held within 90 days followed the death of President Michael Sata in a London hospital after a long illness.