Editing Kenneth Kaunda (section)

==Post-presidency==
[[File:The Union External Affairs Minister, Shri K. Natwar Singh calls on the former President of Zambia, Mr. Kenneth Kaunda in New Delhi on March 15, 2005.jpg|left|thumb|Indian foreign minister [[Natwar Singh]] with Kaunda in March 2005]]
[[File:The President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind meeting with Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda, at his residence, at Lusaka, in Zambia on April 11, 2018.jpg|thumb|Indian president [[Ram Nath Kovind]] and Kaunda in Lusaka, April 2018]]
After leaving office, Kaunda clashed frequently with Chiluba's government and the MMD. Chiluba later attempted to deport Kaunda on the grounds that he was a Malawian.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chirambo |first=Kondwani |date=18 October 1995 |title=Former Ruler Kaunda Facing Deportation, Says Government |language=en |work=Association Press |url=https://apnews.com/article/ae0eb3de3304b81da293add5f95362f9 |access-date=17 June 2021 |archive-date=18 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210618111321/https://apnews.com/article/ae0eb3de3304b81da293add5f95362f9 |url-status=live }}</ref> The MMD-dominated government under the leadership of Chiluba had the constitution amended, barring citizens with foreign parentage from standing for the presidency, to prevent Kaunda from contesting the next elections in 1996, in which he planned to participate.<ref name="Arnold">{{Cite news |last=Arnold |first=Guy |date=17 June 2021 |title=Kenneth Kaunda obituary |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/17/kenneth-kaunda-obituary |access-date=17 June 2021}}</ref> After the [[1997 Zambian coup d'état attempt|1997 coup attempt]], on [[Boxing Day]] in 1997 he was arrested by paramilitary policemen.<ref>{{Cite news |last=McKinley |first=James C. Jr. |date=26 December 1997 |title=Zambia Arrests Former President In Crackdown After Failed Coup |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/26/world/zambia-arrests-former-president-in-crackdown-after-failed-coup.html |access-date=17 June 2021 |archive-date=29 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171229103813/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/26/world/zambia-arrests-former-president-in-crackdown-after-failed-coup.html |url-status=live }}</ref> However, many officials in the region appealed against this; on New Year's Eve of the same year, he was placed under house arrest until his court date.<ref>{{Cite news |date=31 December 1997 |title=Former Zambian president released from jail, under house arrest |language=en-US |publisher=CNN |url=http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/31/kaunda.released/ |access-date=17 June 2021 |archive-date=24 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624201546/http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/31/kaunda.released/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1999 Kaunda was declared stateless by the Ndola High Court in a judgment delivered by Justice Chalendo Sakala.<ref>{{Cite news |last=McNeil |first=Donald G. Jr. |date=1 April 1999 |title=Founder of Zambia Is Declared Stateless In High Court Ruling |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/01/world/founder-of-zambia-is-declared-stateless-in-high-court-ruling.html |access-date=28 May 2020 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=14 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214162218/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/01/world/founder-of-zambia-is-declared-stateless-in-high-court-ruling.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |editor-last=Kasuka |editor-first=Bridget |title=Prominent African leaders since independence |publisher=New Africa Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-9987-16-026-6 |page=351}}</ref> Kaunda however successfully challenged this decision in the Supreme Court of Zambia, which declared him to be a Zambian citizen in the ''[[Lewanika and Others vs. Chiluba]]'' ruling.<ref>Andy DeRoche, ''Kenneth Kaunda, the United States and Southern Africa'' (London: Bloomsbury, 2016, 228.</ref>

On 4 June 1998, Kaunda announced that he was resigning as United National Independence Party leader and retiring from politics.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/kaunda-to-retire-from-politics-1.160035|access-date=18 June 2021|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=5 June 1998|title=Kaunda to retire from politics}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Kenneth Kaunda &#124; Biography, Age, Death, & Facts &#124; Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kenneth-Kaunda|access-date=2022-03-14|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|language=en|archive-date=29 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929214634/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kenneth-Kaunda|url-status=live}}</ref> After retiring in 2000, he was involved in various charitable organisations. His most notable contribution was his zeal in the fight against the spread of [[HIV/AIDS]].<ref>Andy DeRoche, ''Kenneth Kaunda, the United States and Southern Africa'' (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), 213–214, 228–229.</ref> One of Kaunda's children was claimed by the pandemic in the 1980s.<ref>{{Cite news|date=6 October 1987|title=Muere un hijo de Kaunda.|work=El País|language=es|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1987/10/06/internacional/560473202_850215.html|access-date=17 June 2021|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624202117/https://elpais.com/diario/1987/10/06/internacional/560473202_850215.html|url-status=live}}</ref> From 2002 to 2004, he was an ''African President-in-Residence'' at the African Presidential Archives and Research Center at [[Boston University]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=BU &#124; About the Center |url=http://www.bu.edu/aparc/presidents/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060920185157/http://www.bu.edu/aparc/presidents/index.html |archive-date=20 September 2006 |access-date=15 October 2019}}</ref>

In September 2019, Kaunda said that it was regrettable that the late president [[Robert Mugabe]] was maligned and subjected to mudslinging by some sections of the world, who were against his crusade of bringing social justice and equity to Zimbabwe.<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 September 2019 |title=Zambia : President Mugabe was maligned because of his crusade to bring social justice and equity to Zimbabwe-KK |url=https://www.lusakatimes.com/2019/09/06/president-mugabe-was-maligned-because-of-his-crusade-to-bring-social-justice-and-equity-to-zimbabwe-kk/ |access-date=18 June 2021 |archive-date=6 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191206082107/https://www.lusakatimes.com/2019/09/06/president-mugabe-was-maligned-because-of-his-crusade-to-bring-social-justice-and-equity-to-zimbabwe-kk/ |url-status=live }}</ref>