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Given Lubinda’s drunken daughter bashes ZNFU vehicle at night

Foreign Affairs minister Given Lubinda’s daughter Namakau late Friday night in a drunken stupor bashed and damaged a vehicle belonging to the Zambia farmers union (ZNFU). The accident happened around 23 hours and eye witnesses say a Victor Malumani who was driving the ZNFU vehicle was almost killed. The victim is hospitalised at UTH. Drunken [...]

SOUTH Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) says laboratory tests on the Sondashi anti-HIV/AIDS herb has shown anti-HIV activity and is now ready for clinical tests on humans, according to Patson Chilemba, the First Secretary at the Zambian High Commission in South Africa. The announcement was made by CSIR’s Biosciences Executive Director Dr [...]

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President Sata has recalled all non-Bemba Press Attaches in Zambian Embassies and High Commissions regardless of their expertise. But the president has maintained and promoted Bemba attaches appointed by either Rupiah Banda or Levy Mwanawasa. According to Watchdog sources in Lusaka, among the notable non-Bemba speaking Press Secretaries recalled are Rejoice Lukumba(a Tonga), Samuel Ngoma(a [...]

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President Michael Sata has anounced that his government will build a Universtiy to be called Luapula university. And Sata has created two more districts  in Luapula province.  After visiting Mwata Kazembe during the Umutomboko traditional ceremony of the Lunda people in Luapula, President Sata declared Mwansabombwe and Chipili as new districts in the country. President [...]

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Germany has said it is suspending planned budget aid to Rwanda following allegations the country supported eastern Congo’s latest rebellion. Germany’s development ministry said yesterday it has suspended €21 million (£16.5m) in contributions planned from this year to 2015. Britain and the Netherlands have already suspended support and the US has cut military aid. A [...]

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Kenyan police have arrested the first secretary of the Venezuelan Embassy in Kenya, the Venezuelan Dwight Sagaray, and five Kenyan employees of the embassy residence, for their suspected involvement in the death by strangling of the mission’s charge d’affaires, Olga Fonseca. In a telephone conversation with Efe, the administrative assistant at the Venezuelan Embassy in [...]

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