President of Ghana dies after denying illness for months
Ghana’s President John Atta Mills, who had been suffering from throat cancer, has died in the capital, Accra. The president had denied rumors about his health for months. “Does my continued living pose a threat to some people?” he told reporters at a January event, according to the state-run Ghana News Agency. On June 25, [...]
About 18 workers at Lake Kariba Inns in Siavonga have been laid off due to the revised minimum wages. A source told ZANIS in an interview today that 18 workers were laid off after the meeting which the management had with its employees last week. He said that this occurred during the meeting which lasted [...]
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President Michael Sata has secretly re-aligned Local Government and Housing Minister, Prof. Nkandu Luo, by demoting her to the Ministry of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs to take over from Emily Kabanshi who has been promoted by re-aligning her to the Ministry of Local Government and Housing. The secret changes, coming barely a few days after [...]
Continue reading …Deputy Local Government and Housing Minister, Stephen Masumba, has finally been expelled from the opposition MMD while North-Western Province Deputy Minister, Josephine Limata’s case has been differed to a later date. Sources with the MMD have told the Watchdog that Masumba today failed to appear before the disciplinary hearing which he was scheduled to attend, [...]
Continue reading …Dear editor. > I have just finished reading excepts from a letter from State House in response to concerns by the MMD President on the appointment of their members to deputy ministerial positions. > The concerns by the MMD is that these appointments are done without the consultation of the party and are weakening the [...]
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Following Friday’s statement by President Michael Sata accusing former President Rupiah Banda of sowing ethnic divisions, international lawyer Robert Amsterdam has rejected the move as a dishonest and desperate slur on behalf of the Patriotic Front administration. “Let me be absolutely clear: these accusations represent yet another blatant lie based on yet another bogus news article [...]
Continue reading …President Michael Sata today (Tuesday) morning swore-in two MMD MPs to serve as deputy ministers in his regime and vowed to appopint another MP from the MMD. President Sata swore in MMD Mkaika MP David Phiri, as Deputy Minister of Tourism and Art while MMD Solwezi East MP Richard Taima was sworn in as Deputy Minister of [...]
Continue reading …Defence Minister Geoffrey Mwamba has given The Zambian Watchdog, seven days to retract a recent report suggesting that he and Finance Minister, Alexander Chikwanda travelled to London to be by President Michael Sata’s bedside whom it alleged was hospitalised. Mr Mwamba told the government controlled and funded Times of Zambia that the report was misleading [...]
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President Sata has advised United Party for National Development (UPND) president Hakainde Hichilema to love even Zambians who are not of his ethnic background. Last Thursday, Hichilema wrote to Sata rebuking him over his lack of manners and diplomacy. This was in reference to Sata’s attacks on former United States President George Bush when he [...]
Continue reading …A showdown is looming in Western province between the Barotse Freedom Movement, the Linyungandambo and police over a permit to hold a peaceful demonstration. The Barotse Freedom Movement and Linyunga Ndambo have vowed to go ahead with the demonstration set for this Wednesday 25th July 2012 despite the police refusal togrant them a permit. The demonstration [...]
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