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Implications of Zambia’s movement out of LDC category

By Kanni Wignaraja, UN Resident Coordinator in Zambia The recently ended 4th UN conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) held in Turkey assessed the results of the 10-year action plan for LDCs adopted in Brussels, Belgium, in 2001. The conference closed with a number of recommendations seeking to halve, from 48 to 24, the number [...]

By Maurice Makalu Shaik Saleem Banda is misleading Zambians when he says the cross-continent convoy from Cape town to Gaza is a humanitarian convoy. I say so because the people of Gaza, who he says are human beings too, willingly voted Hamas, a government which seeks to annihilate another nation, Israel, from the face of [...]

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Last minute preparations for the 2011 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections are concluding. Candidates are now known. It’s a repeat of the 2008 elections which saw President Rupiah Banda put up a spirited fight against Michael Sata and Hakainde Hichilema that have so often appeared to play the ‘brides maid’ role or the foolish Biblical virgins. [...]

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By Nicholas Sengoba Embattled Libyan leader, the ‘powerful’ Col. Muammar Gaddafi, is probably hiding somewhere in a bunker, biting his nails. But things have not always been like this. The self-declared ‘King of Kings’ and a horde of other high-sounding but equally spurious titles is in a very precarious situation following the imposition of a [...]

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A meeting was convened in Dubai whilst His Excellency the President was in transit to China on Tuesday, 23rd February, 2010 and attended by His Excellency the President, the Attorney-General, The Honourable Minister of Finance, Dr. Richard Chembe, Mr. Dickson Jere, Mr. Dick King and Credit-Suisse Officials.

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By Hellen Muzyamba Trust is both a psychological and logical act. Psychologically, it is where you expose your vulnerabilities to people, all the while believing that they will not take advantage of your sincerity. Rationally or logically, it is where you have weighed both your negative and positive outcomes,  analysing what you hope to get [...]

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Dullness, not being peaceful is why Zambians are not on the streets demanding better governance and improved living conditions Egyptians, Tunisians, and Libyans all enjoy better living conditions than Zambians by far. Yet, these freedom fighters are demanding more. They refuse to be abused. They know that there countries can give them more. They refuse [...]

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United Party for National Development president Hakainde Hichilema should stop playing games. There is no time for such. If Hichilema has accepted to be Michael Sata’s underdog in the so called pact, let him come out clean. What happened last week where his chairperson for International relations [EU fundraiser] Clive Chirwa wrote a letter to [...]

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If President Rupiah Banda and other retards in their small party MMD can not allow people to chose leaders freely, can these thieves allow Zambians to vote for leaders of their choice? The governing party Movement for Multi-party Democracy -MMD- will convene a convention some time in April this year. It is at the convention [...]

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By Sity Mwitu Mr. Hakainde Hichilema (popularly known as HH) is a great person almost in everything except a few political hick ups that he needs to patch up before the 2011 Presidential election takes place. In the 21st century, it is no doubt that the caliber of HH would be the best ideal environment [...]

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