The Zambian government sponsored Lemekhani Nathan Nyerenda to study nuclear engineering in a
Moscow university. While there, he was arrested &
sentenced to 9 years in prison for drug possession. Later he sent a message to his family saying that he was no longer in prison, but he couldn't tell them where he went. On November 9th, the Zambian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was
informed that he died September 22nd in Ukraine.