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Egypt’s Mubarak slipping in and out of consciousness

CAIRO—Hosni Mubarak’s health deteriorated further on Monday with the ousted president slipping in and out of consciousness and being feed liquids intravenously, Egyptian security officials said. Doctors had to use a defibrillator twice on 84-year-old Mubarak, according to the officials at Torah prison hospital, where the former leader is serving a life sentence. They did [...]

Opposition UPND president Hakainde Hichilema this afternoon confronted Lusaka Division Commissioner, Charity Katanga, over the brutal force she used against defenseless cadres last week. Mr. Hichilema arrived at Lusaka Central Police headquarters to meet Ms. Katanga accompanied by scores of UPND supporters. The Police had trouble controlling UPND supporters who were accompanying their leader in [...]

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President Michael Sata has urged Standard Chartered Bank Plc. to increase lending to agriculture and to expand its retail banking side of the business in Zambia, according to George Chellah, Sata’s mouth-piece. President said this when Sir. John Peace, the Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank Plc. called on him in London today. The bank’s chief executive for the [...]

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  By George ChellahMon 19 Oct. 2009, 18:22 PATRIOTIC Front (PF) leader Michael Sata yesterday attributed the current fuel crisis to President Rupiah Banda’s corrupt activities. Sata, who was spotted at Total filling station in Lusaka’s Northmead area with a 20 litre plastic container looking for fuel, said President Banda was fully responsible for the [...]

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All the four filling stations in Solwezi district have run out of petrol, leaving motorists stranded. And petrol-propelled vehicles have been abandoned on long queues at the filling stations awaiting the anticipated arrival of the commodity. But Energy Permanent Secretary, George Zulu, blamed  the high number of soccer fans who travelled to Ndola to watch [...]

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The Chinese mobile companies which the PF government has engaged to undertake the digital migration have been found guilty of corruption and banned from Algeria. The Zambian government has engaged Huawei and ZTE  to migrate Zambia from analogue to digital broadcasting. In May , 2012, minister of information and Broadacasting Fackson Shamenda led a delegation of government officials [...]

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The Alliance for Good Governance (AGG) has expressed concern at the continued stay of Malawian judge Lovemore Chikopa in the country despite the tribunal he is supposed to preside over being suspended. And the alliance says judicial reforms should be based on reason and objectivity  not bitterness and hatred. The Alliance for Good Governance comprises six [...]

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The ruling Patriotic Front (PF) has mobilized earth-moving equipment and food distribution in areas where bye-elections will be taking place on 5th July. In Chama North and Muchinga constituencies, ceremonial vice-president, Sata’s ‘chola boy’ Guy Scott personally ordered his office under Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) to hurry the road maintenance and food distribution. [...]

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Fuel has now run out in most parts of the country with a few service stations reserving only a bit of petrol for account holders. Meanwhile, power blackouts have become the order of the day but no proper explanation is been given by Zesco, other than a vague advert saying a machine developed fault and will [...]

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Lusaka based political analyst Dante Saunders says the PF government is losing popularity because it is failing to fulfill campaign promises. And Saunders has praised the private media and opposition political parties for playing their role very well under the PF regime. Saunders told radio Phoenix Monday morning that he is impressed with the way [...]

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