President Hakainde Hichilema, Vice-President Mutale Nalumango, and former First Lady Christine Kaseba-Sata paid tribute to former First Lady Maureen Kakubo Mwanawasa, who passed away at 61 from thyroid cancer in Lusaka. Maureen, who served as First Lady from 2002 to 2008 during her husband Levy Mwanawasa’s presidency, died at Maina Soko Medical Centre. Her older brother, Lottie Kakubo, revealed that her thyroid cancer was only discovered after it had advanced, initially being mistaken for a goitre.