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MMD to petition Chama North election results

The opposition Movement for Multi Party Democracy (MMD) says it will petition the election result of the Chama North parliamentary by-election which has been won by the ruling Patriotic Front (PF). MMD President Nevers Mumba has alleged that the PF were involved in electoral malpractice such as vote buying and dishing out money to the voters in the constituency [...]

A serious fuel shortage has hit almost all districts in Eastern province. In Chipata District,  the only filing station that had a few litres of petrol by 14 hours local time is Mt Meru near Protea hotel where long queues have been formed. Motorists have been queueing up for hours  inorder to get the commodity. Some [...]

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MMD youths have given Mufumbwe Member of Parliament Steven Masumba a 48-hour ultimatum to resign from the party. The youths have accused Mr. Masumba who is also Local government deputy minister of campaigning against the MMD. MMD’s Die-hard Youths National Coordinator Bowman Lusambo has told ZNBC News in an interview that Mr. Masumba has lost [...]

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  43rd President of the United States of America George W. Bush C/O The George W. Bush Presidential Center P.O. Box 600610 Dallas, TX 75360 U.S.A.   July 5th, 2012 Lusaka, Republic of Zambia   Dear Mr. President, I am writing to you on behalf of concerned citizens in Zambia to express our most sincere [...]

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Evelyn Hone college got what they wanted after 4 days of successful riots. Ceremonial Vice president, Guy Scott, has given them the bus they were demanding and has promised that contractors for the other block of hostels will move on site on Monday. In what seems to be uncoordinated plans, Education Minister John Phiri had [...]

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President Michael Sata is reportedly planning a cabinet reshuffle that will see the dismissal or demotion of Foreign Affairs Minister, Given Lubinda for having ‘sold’ the Livingstone seat to his former party the opposition UPND. Sources have told the Watchdog that Sata is angry with the way Lubinda imposed himself as the campaign manager for [...]

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PRESIDENT Michael Sata has warned his predecessor Rupiah Banda “not to push his luck too far” by choosing to antagonise the Patriotic Front (PF) administration. In a strong reaction to Mr Banda’s statement issued earlier yesterday, Mr Sata said he was deeply embarrassed by Mr Banda’s exaggeration of his (Mr Sata’s) light-hearted conversation with former [...]

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