Zambia's largest cobalt producer resumes output
Business Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Democratic Republic of Congo has delivered cobalt concentrates needed to resume output, the firm has said.
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DR Congo, Zambia hold commission meeting on cooperation
People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Democratic republic of Congo (DRC) and its southern neighbor Zambia are holding a commission meeting to discuss all-round cooperation, according to the Congolese News Agency. The 11th session of the joint commission was opened on Thursday in the DRC capital Kinshasa with an agenda to include the evaluation of agreements and existing projects in political, judicial, diplomatic, defense and security,...
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Zambia: Govt to Look at Poor Drainage Systems
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
THE issue of poor drainage systems in most towns in the country has become a perennial problem encountered every rainy season.
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Zambia: Taskforce Gobbled Up More Than Recoveries
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
THE total expenditure of the Task Force on Corruption was higher than the recoveries made during the period of its operations, Home Affairs Minister Lameck Mangani has said.
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Zambia: It's All Nonsense, Says Grey Zulu
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
FORMER UNIP secretary general Grey Zulu is upset with a media reports that the Government regards him as a criminal when he has all along been receiving help from the State.
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Zambia: Citizens Chide President Banda's Critics
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A CROSS-section of Zambians has condemned the smear campaign launched by some former Government leaders and members of the civil society against President Rupiah Banda's family and the Government.
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Zambia: Media Can Be Dangerous Tool - MPs
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
PARLIAMENT yesterday heard that the media can be a dangerous tool if placed in the hands of non-professionals, especially during election time when political tension is high.
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Six African Countries funded to ease climate adaptation
Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | yesterday
Environment News Service : A total of $1.1 billion in new financing will flow to six African countries to assist them in developing renewable energy and preparing for the consequences of climate change. From solar water heaters to wind energy to development policy planning, a range of new, scalable investments were given the green light October 27 at Trustee meetings of the Climate Investment Funds...
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Egypt's first envoy to Iraq since 2005 arrives
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Egypt's new ambassador to Iraq has arrived in Baghdad, a diplomatic source said on Saturday of Cairo's first diplomatic representative in the country since its charge d'affaires was killed in 2005. Sharif Kamal Shahin, a diplomat with 27 years' experience and a former ambassador to Zambia, arrived in Iraq on Friday, the source said. Egypt's foreign ministry spokesman has described the move as an "important...
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China-Africa cooperation pertinent to needs of African countries: Zambian diplomat
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
With priority given to agriculture and infrastructure in the draft action plan for next three years, the cooperation launched by the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) addresses the fundamental needs of the African countries, Ambassador of Zambia to China Lupando Mwape told Xinhua Friday after attending the 7th senior officials meeting of the Forum. ''Most of the African land is wide and diverse,...
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UN endorses the Goldstone Report
Jews sans frontieres (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Voting record of UN members on the General Assembly resolution: In favor: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Comoros, Congo, Cuba, Cyprus, Democratic People’s...
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T-Shirt Travels by Shantha Bloemen – the power of using the personal and everyday to better understand what is happening in the world.
Dark Age Days (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
T-Shirt Travels, an independant film made by artist Shantha Bloemen - The story of how secondhand clothing, given away as charity in the west, ends up in Zambia, Africa.
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Climate change and malaria....
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Another good piece by Bjorn Lomborg - I want to fight real environmental problems...not phony ones... When he first got sick, Samson Banda didn't realize he had malaria. Only after he came down with a serious fever did he end up at a clinic in the Bauleni slum compound in Lusaka, Zambia. The clinic has just a few nurses and staff with basic medical skills. Locals can wait for an entire day to be seen....
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Boris aside, who are your heroes on two wheels? | Ben Thomas
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
In the wake of the London mayor's heroics this week, we want your stories of cycling's good samaritans Guardian reader Lissendis commented on one of this blog's recent posts : This bike blog is getting a bit depressing. It seems as if the purpose of most of the recent threads is to get us all moaning about something. Ample evidence of moany postings was supplied, with the plea: Can we have a few more...
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'Chief Tindi's Chiefdom Was Abolished'
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
CHIEF Mnkhanya of the Kunda speaking people of Mambwe District in the Eastern Province has said the man claiming to be Chief Tindi is his subject as that chiefdom was abolished in 1948.
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