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Confirmed: Chris Katongo is BBC African footballer of the year

 Christopher Katongo has won the 2012 BBC African Footballer of the Year award. The 30-year-old Zambia captain beat off competition from Demba Ba, Didier Drogba, Younes Belhanda and Yaya Toure to become the first winner from southern Africa in the history of the award. Katongo told BBC Sport: “This is a fantastic moment for me. [...]

The Zambian businessman Abdul Simwaya who was deported to Rwanda last week is stranded at Kenyata International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya. According to his children in Zambia, the Rwandan government has rejected him as he is not their citizen. The Zambian government bound Simwaya and put him on the first flight to East Africa without [...]

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It is so disheartening and disgustig of how police hq’s has turned into a haven of coruption.some of these issues are beter brought to media than following the so called ‘proper’channels. I wonder if P.I.O’S ever existat police hq’s.Am saying so because you could smell corruption even before one enters the doors of police hq’s. [...]

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The Somali national who is accused of shooting  dead his Zambian house servant last week has appeared in the Ndola magistrate’s court for murder. Before Magistrate Ben Akende was Omar Mohammed Hashi, 30, of Catchpole Flat number 1 Kopa Road, Northrise area, who is charged with one count of murder, contrary to Section 200 of the [...]

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Skipper Christopher Katongo will this afternoon be presented with the BBC African Footballer of the Year Award, according to unconfirmed reports. Officials from BBC arrived in the country at the weekend to present the honour to Katongo at 18:00 hours Zambian time. According to Naija2Day, the last 10 years have been a rollercoaster ride for [...]

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After being denied the right to hold ralllies as individual parties,  five opposition political parties have now notified the police that they will hold a joint rally next Saturday in Lusaka’s Mtendere Residentail area. The five parites are ADD, MMD, UPND, ULP and ZDDM. According to a notification sent to the police, the oppostion will [...]

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  INDENI Petroleum Refinery in Ndola will today resume operations after it temporally shut down last week to facilitate the shipment of the first consignment of 90 0000 tonnes of fuel from the new supplier Gunvor Group of Russia according to PF government controlled Times of Zambia. Ministry of Energy Permanent secretary George Zulu yesterday [...]

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Senior PF members are accusing Secretary General Wynter Kabimba of deriving monetary gains and benefits from a programme aimed at training PF female cadres in tailoring and designing. Last Friday Kabimba who doubles as Justice Minister in the PF regime was officiating at a ‘graduation’ ceremony for 100 cadres in tailoring. Kabimba praised his party [...]

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Cables from the OP  intercepted by the Watchdog show that former Zambian dictator Kenneth Kaunda has convinced president Michael Sata to anoint Kaunda’ son Panji as his successor. The project was until  this article only known by Kaunda, Sata, Fred M’membe, Panji and a few OP officials in Zambia. The idea was communicated to Sata [...]

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