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Zambians detained in Finnish football scam reach six

The National Bureau of Investigation (Finland’s central criminal police) has widened its probe into match-fixing allegations in Finnish football to cover around ten separate matches. Most of these games took place last season, but some of them were played in this season’s Finnish League Cup On Tuesday the NBI carried out six new arrests in [...]

The meeting which was scheduled for Tuesday 15 March 2011 at Nasdec was exclusive to the President of FAZ and his Executive Committee members and any representatives of the Council. There was no need to have any other FAZ members and affiliates such as the newly appointed chairman of Kabwe Warriors and an official of Amakumbi Stars. Should there have been need for any FAZ members to be present, notices and circulars should probably have been sent to all the over 260 affiliates. That however would not have been necessary as the FAZ AGM next weekend provides a platform for the football family.

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Zambia is severely off track to meet the 2015 Millenium Development Goal on maternal mortality target of 185 per 100,000 live births. The governemnt of the United Kingdom has come to the aid of its former colony by purchasing K32 billion (£4.27m) worth of Emergency Obstetric Care equipment to help address the high rate of [...]

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A Supreme Court judge has lifted the order stopping the execution of a judgment that nullified the election of Elliot Kamondo as MP for Mufumbwe. In December last year, Judge Phillip Musonda nullified Kamondo’s election as UPND Mufumbwe MP because the polls were marred by violence and intimidation. Kamondo appealed and Justice Wanki granted a [...]

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