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Zambia Elections: Banda wins, Sata furious amid minor unrest

Zambia Elections: Banda wins, Sata furious amid minor unrest

Zambian Electoral Commission announced Sunday that Acting President Rupiah Banda won the Zambian presidential race over Michael Sata, his combative rival. According to the chairwoman...
Zambia elections : Rupiah Banda leads

Zambia elections : Rupiah Banda leads

Acting President Rupiah Banda is set to become the new President of Zambia following the latest results released Saturday night by the Electoral Commission...
Zambia : Banda closes in on Sata despite voter apathy

Zambia : Banda closes in on Sata despite voter apathy

The disinterest shown by many eligible voters in Thursda y's presidential election in Zambia is of great concern, the state-run Zambia Daily Mail bemoaned...
Zambia Elections : Big lead for Sata after first count

Zambia Elections : Big lead for Sata after first count

Opposition Patriotic Front leader Michael Sata has taken an early lead in the first presidential election results announced early Friday by the chairperson of...
Zambians Vote

Zambians Vote

Zambians began streaming to countless polling stations across the vast country early Thursday to choose a successor to the late President Levy Mwanawasa. The choice...
Zambian opposition on election : “We won’t accept outcome”

Zambian opposition on election : “We won’t accept outcome”

Thursday has been declared as a public holiday to allow registered voters to possible cast their votes. Zambians would be electing the republican President...
Zambian elections : Banda dares opposition to promise

Zambian elections : Banda dares opposition to promise

In a bid to secure the permanent presidential seat come October 30, Stand-in Zambian President Rupiah Banda, while addressing a campaign rally at Kalumbwa...
Zambia : Voting for another ailing President

Zambia : Voting for another ailing President

It is a crunch time for Zambia’s aspiring presidential candidates as the country goes to the polls on Thursday to elect a fourth president...
Officials detained for impounding truck amid fraud claims

Officials detained for impounding truck amid fraud claims

Police in Zambia on Thursday detained five Patriotic Front (PF) officials who impounded a Ministry of Health truck on suspicion that it was carrying...
Zambian party seeks to bend rules for presidential term

Zambian party seeks to bend rules for presidential term

Zambia’s Attorney-General, Mumba Malila and Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) president, Elijah Banda have dismissed accretions that the new president to be elected rule...
Mysterious disease from Zambia claiming lives in South Africa

Mysterious disease from Zambia claiming lives in South Africa

A mysterious disease with symptoms of flu, bleeding and vomiting suspected to have originated from Zambia has claimed four lives in South Africa. The Zambian...
Zambian defeats American in Global Boxing Union championship

Zambian defeats American in Global Boxing Union championship

Zambian female boxer Esther Phiri has won the Global Boxing Union (GBU) lightweight crown after defeating American opponent Hondi Hernandez in a contest held...
Zambian politicians fight for power

Zambian politicians fight for power

The stage has been set for Zambia's presidential elections in October. Zambians go to the polls to elect the former president Levy Mwanawasa's replacement. The...
Japanese drivers win african international motor rally

Japanese drivers win african international motor rally

Japanese drivers Hideaki Miyoshi and Hakaru Ichino Sunday made history when they convincingly won the Zambia International Rally and also clinched the 2008 FIA...
Zambian ruling party starts proceedings to adopt a presidential candidate

Zambian ruling party starts proceedings to adopt a presidential candidate

The national executive committee (NEC) of the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) is meeting in Lusaka Friday to adopt the party’s candidate for...
President’s will for his country : Was he expecting death ?

President’s will for his country : Was he expecting death ?

As if he had a premonition of his death, Zambia’s late President Levy Mwanawasa’s pre-recorded a final farewell statement to the nation and left...
Mrs Mwanawasa pays tribute to late president and chides critics

Mrs Mwanawasa pays tribute to late president and chides critics

There was an outpouring of grief with sympathisers breaking down when the casket of late Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa was driven into Parliament buildings...
Late President Mwanawasa’s widow to get inheritance from state

Late President Mwanawasa’s widow to get inheritance from state

FORMER Zambian first lady, Maureen Mwanawasa is entitled to a salary equivalent to 50 per cent of that of a serving Head of...
Candidates file applications to replace Zambia’s late president Mwanawasa

Candidates file applications to replace Zambia’s late president Mwanawasa

Zambia's acting President Rupiah Banda and Finance Minister Ng'andu Magande have openly shown interest in standing for president come election time in November. Two...
Mugabe mourns archrival’s death

Mugabe mourns archrival’s death

Despite their frosty relationship, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Thursday mourned the late Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, saying his death was a blow to the...
Kenyan President mourns his departed Zambian counterpart

Kenyan President mourns his departed Zambian counterpart

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Tuesday mourned his departed Zambian counterpart, Levy Mwanawasa, describing him as an avid defender of justice who demonstrated his...
Conservation farming can counteract fertiliser prices

Conservation farming can counteract fertiliser prices

As fertiliser and petrol prices zoom and threaten food production in Zambia, farmers are being urged to adopt conservation farming. The price of a 50kg...
Africa mourns the death of an exemplary President

Africa mourns the death of an exemplary President

Zambia’s President Levy Mwanawasa is dead, Vice-President Rupiah Banda announced Tuesday in an address to the nation on the state-run radio and television stations. Banda...
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa’s condition critical

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa’s condition critical

The team of doctors treating Zambia’s ailing President Levy Mwanawasa in Paris, France, have described his condition as serious, Vice President Rupiah Banda disclosed...
Hastings Bwalya’s passport dilemma ahead of Beijing Olympics

Hastings Bwalya’s passport dilemma ahead of Beijing Olympics

Hastings Bwalya, Zambia’s gold medal hopeful at next month’s Beijing Olympics is still without a passport almost a month after passing through the country...
Minister slammed for suggesting replacement for ‘paralysed’ President

Minister slammed for suggesting replacement for ‘paralysed’ President

Zambia's ruling party on Monday rebuked a senior member after saying it was time to begin the process of choosing a successor for stricken...
Is President hitting it out with divorced former First Lady ?

Is President hitting it out with divorced former First Lady ?

Is Malawian President Bingu Mutharika doing the Madiba Act? Well not that he is turning 90 or being jailed for 27 years, Mutharika is reportedly...
Apologies from the man who announced Zambian president’s death and why he did it

Apologies from the man who announced Zambian president’s death and why he did it

THE person who allegedly tipped a South African radio station last week that Zambian leader Levy Mwanawasa had died has apologised. Zambia media reports today...
President Levy Mwanawasa’s state of health still an issue?

President Levy Mwanawasa’s state of health still an issue?

The Zambian government insisted today that President Levy Mwanawasa was alive - denying media reports he had died in a Paris hospital - and...
Did Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa die in Paris ?

Did Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa die in Paris ?

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, who was evacuated to Paris, France, for specialist treatment, as announced by Vice President Rupiah Banda Tuesday night, is reported...