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/ 2 November 2008
Rupiah Banda, a pro-business centrist, was sworn in as Zambia’s president on Sunday after a narrow election win.
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/ 2 November 2008
Acting leader Rupiah Banda is likely to be declared the winner of Zambia’s presidential election on Sunday.
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/ 1 November 2008
Opposition leader Michael Sata was still leading on Saturday in Zambia’s polls, but acting President Rupiah Banda appeared to be narrowing the gap.
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/ 31 October 2008
Zambian opposition leader Michael Sata has drawn ahead of acting President Rupiah Banda in the presidential election.
Zambia and the Pan-African PTA Bank have agreed a ,2-billion deal to import 1,5-million tonnes of crude oil over two years.
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/ 8 September 2008
Zambian opposition leader Michael Sata says he will welcome Chinese investors in the country’s mining industry if he is elected president.
Zambia will prevent officials accused of corruption from contesting elections as the country starts to find a successor for President Levy Mwanawasa.
Thousands of Zambians mourned President Levy Mwanawasa on Saturday when his body was returned home after he died in France five days ago.
Zambia has ended talks with a unit of Standard Bank after failing to agree conditions for a ,2-billion oil-financing deal, Energy Minister Kenneth Konga said on Monday. Konga said negotiations with Stanbic Bank Zambia, a subsidiary of Standard Bank, had ended and the government would soon start talks with another bank.
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/ 23 January 2008
Zambia has mobilised its army to clear drainage systems in major cities amid fears torrential rains and flooding may lead to outbreaks of cholera and other deadly diseases, a government official said on Wednesday. Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi have been lashed by heavy rains for several weeks.