Theft of global funds still hurting Zambia’s ARV programme
14 March 2011 (PlusNews) – When the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria suspended funding to Zambia in late 2010 it made international headlines and rocked donor confidence, but the stock-outs and drug rationing in the wake of the scandal have received little attention. In March 2009 a whistle blower’s allegations of corruption [...]
Patriotic Front leader Michael Sata is still in shock that the UPND pulled out the alliance with his party. Contacts close to Sata say the veteran politician did not take the decision by the UPND well and is blaming his advisors for misleading him. Sources say the PF had deliberately embarked on a media campaign [...]
Continue reading …The All Peoples’ Congress party has endorsed UPND president Hakainde Hichilema for the republican presidency in this year’s general elections. The APC, whose leader Ken Ngondo died last year, says the party has resolved to work with the UPND in order to realize the dream of Zambia’ s founding fathers. New APC president Chozi Nyoni [...]
Continue reading …Western province UPND MPs and officials have told the leader Hahkainde Hichilema that president Rupiah Banda has got blood on his hands and forming an alliance with him is wrong. And UPND has set March 19, 2011, as the date for launching their presidential and parliamentary campaigns for this year’s general elections. The Western party [...]
Continue reading …Patriotic Front (PF) president Michael Sata has finally come out with what appears to be his true stand on the controversial subject of gays and lesbians by telling the Danish media that there are laws in Zambia that recognise their existence and that there is need to implement them. Mr Sata said there was need [...]
Continue reading …The fate of a single tourist visa for the Southern Africa Development Community member countries will be determined at a ministerial meeting in Lusaka this June. Billed as a “grand debate,” the meeting is expected to come up with an action plan that will lead to the establishment of the single tourist visa. Tanzania’s [...]
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