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France has new president

Francois Hollande was elected France’s first Socialist president in nearly two decades on Sunday dealing a humiliating defeat to incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and shaking up European politics. The result will have major implications for Europe as it struggles to emerge from a financial crisis and for France, the eurozone’s second-largest economy and a nuclear-armed permanent [...]

The truth is beginning to emerge on the 300, 000 metric tonnes of maize worth US$42.5 million which the Food Reserve Agency is sending to Zimbabwe. A Zimbabwean newspaper, the Zimbabwean Mail, reports that FRA has signed a US$42.5 million contract with a shadowy Zimbabwean company linked to State Security agency CIO, Sakunda Trading of [...]

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Does President Sata’s wife need a reminder that it is only her husband, and not her, managing national af­fairs and that Zambia should not be taken for a personal property or some small agency at Central Park?

Dr Kaseba is so overly ex­cited at being the country’s first lady and, if not checked now, might just turn out to be another Emelda Marcos.

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Police in Tanzania are forcing a Zambian woman to expel heroine from her bowels and so far she has discharged 49 pellets worth about ZK100 million. Mary Nvula who swallowed the heroine and pretended to be pregnant in order to pass it through border controls was arrested at Mwalimu Nyerere airport on May 2, 2012. [...]

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