About 38-million Africans are threatened by starvation this year from a food crisis that relief workers predict could last for generations because of Aids.
Zambian Finance Minister Emmanuel Kasonde said his country was preparing to diversify its economy away from its troubled mining industry to agriculture and tourism.
”Congratulations — 15 days no accident,” reads a billboard at the entrance to Konkola Copper Mine (KCM) in Zambia’s northern Copperbelt province.
A Zambian court ruled on Friday that former president Frederick Chiluba can be stripped of his immunity to face charges of corruption, in a sharp reversal of fortune for a man who had entered office as a populist reformer.
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.