Zambia

With rare exceptions -- including Botswana President Festus Mogae and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni -- few African leaders have done much to fight the pandemic that infects more than 25 million people on the continent. Kaunda, 77, hopes he can fill the leadership vacuum.

Liberalisation of economic policy had left people open to exploitation by multinational corporations, a report on how economic structural reform had contributed to the decline in living standards, has found. 'The Post' reported on Thursday that a study among workers of Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia (NCZ) and Kafue Textiles of Zambia (KTZ) had noted that the government's privatisation policy - instead of contributing to economic growth - had only served to hamper production at the two plants an...read more

Are people in low-income areas aware of the risks of drinking dirty water? What can be done to improve the quality of drinking water for poorer people? Researchers from Population Services International and the Zambian Society for Family Health report on the results of a survey in low-income neighbourhoods in Lusaka, Zambia.

The approach of World Refugee Day has prompted the Catholic Church in Zambia, which hosts the biggest refugee populations in the region, to issue a strong warning against xenophobia. "We are dismayed that politicians and civil servants sometimes produce statements which tend to foster rejecting our fellow Africans. General criminalisation of a social group is an expression of racism and xenophobia completely contrary to the law of God and the tradition of hospitality that the people of Zambia...read more

An independent tribunal on Monday began probing allegations of corruption and abuse of office against three senior Zambian ministers who are close aides to President Frederick Chiluba.

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