Zambia will buy maize from Kenya and Tanzania to help feed millions of people after rejecting offers of genetically modified (GM) maize aid.
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.
Zambia’s mining minister said on Wednesday Namibian miner Ongopolo Mining and Processing had made inquiries about purchasing the troubled Roan Antelope Mining Corporation, and it was welcome to do due diligence.
Zambia’s former foreign minister shot himself dead on Tuesday shortly after the country’s parliament lifted ex-president Frederick Chiluba’s immunity from prosecution, state radio said.
A warehouse storing sacks of genetically modified maize was raided in southern Zambia on Monday, highlighting tensions between the government’s policy not to distribute the food.
ZAMBIA’S police service was on Friday slammed for its human rights record and the government accused of hiding police brutality in a report by a national human rights watch dog.
Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of the Zambian capital Lusaka in support of a new anti-corruption drive announced in parliament by President Levy Mwanawasa.
The European Commission said Tuesday it was donating 15-million euros to Zambia to buy 33 000 metric tons of corn in response to the country’s food crisis.
Zambia’s government will not allow the World Food Programme (WFP) to feed over 130 000 refugees in the country with genetically modified food.
The Zambian government has rejected donations of genetically modified maize from the United States, even though a massive food shortage threatens nearly 2,3-million of its people with starvation.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has suspended the national secretary of his ruling party for insubordination, state radio said on Wednesday.
President Levy Mwanawasa said Zambia has found money to run the country’s troubled Konkola Copper Mines until May 2003.
The Zambian government on Saturday rejected a UN appeal to lift a ban on the distribution of genetically modified food, saying it would be able to procure enough other grain to feed its starving people.
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.
Chiluba stripped of presidential immunity
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.