President Rupiah Banda took the unfortunate incident in good humour. "You have urinated on my jacket," a startled Mr Banda told the monkey, looking up at a tree.

The monkey was one of a colony that has made its home in the trees outside Mr Banda's offices at Lusaka's State House. "I will give this monkey for lunch to Mr Sata," he joked, referring to opposition leader Michael Sata.

Mr Banda somehow managed to continue his press conference, only the second of his presidency. He used the occasion to reassure Zambians over the country's dramatic economic slowdown resulting from plunging prices for copper, the country's main export.

What a pity (insert least favourite politician's name) wasn't there!

I was gutted... I was hoping for diarrhoea...

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