Lusaka

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has suspended the national secretary of his ruling party for insubordination, state radio said on Wednesday.

A South African pilot has been arrested for allegedly trying to sneak Zambia’s former spy chief out of his country, newspapers reported on Sunday.

The Zambian government has banned with immediate effect the exportation of maize, the country’s staple food, due to the current food shortages caused by famine, an official said.

Lawyers for Zambia’s ex-president Frederick Chiluba on Thursday defended their client’s right to keep the immunity from prosecution he enjoyed while in office, which parliament voted to lift earlier this year.

Several dozen armed police on Saturday surrounded the house of former president Frederick Chiluba, a day after a court ruled he can be investigated for corruption.

Zambia is to receive -million in credit from the World Bank (WB) for current drought and food shortages in the country, a government representative said on Tuesday.

Zambia’s former president Kenneth Kaunda is in Iraq to hold talks with that country’s leader Saddam Hussein, a representative said on Wednesday.

The former president of Zambia, Frederick Chiluba, said he would not flee the country despite numerous allegations of criminal wrongdoings that have prompted widespread calls for his arrest.

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa said he was prepared to give his embattled predecessor Frederick Chiluba a presidential pardon if Chiluba repaid money he allegedly stole from the state.

Zambia’s former president Frederick Chiluba will share 40% of his retirement salary with his divorced wife Vera as long as she remains single

Zambia, home to some of Africa’s oldest refugee settlements, is working on a groundbreaking plan to integrate some refugees into local communities and grant them greater freedom of movement.

Zambia’s former spy chief, arrested earlier this week for allegedly stealing a motor bike, was trying to flee the country for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Aids activists criticised a Zambian official on Thursday for his proposal to round up everyone infected with HIV and force them into isolation camps.

Britain has donated 10 million pounds worth of food aid to starving people in Zambia while Libya is giving 6 000 tonnes of food relief, Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has announced.

Some 40 firms have been short-listed as potential investors in Zambia’s troubled Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) after the August exit of Anglo American, KCM said on Monday.

Zambian President, Levy Mwanawasa, has attacked his predecessor Frederick Chiluba for having awarded ”outrageous benefits” to his defence chiefs just one day before he left office.

Two US congressmen appealed to Zambia on Friday to accept a US donation of corn that might include genetically modified (GM) grain in order to save the lives of its starving people.

Zambia’s troubled Konkola Copper Mines will focus on raising production after the exit of parent Anglo American, CEO Robin Mills said on Tuesday.