Zambian editor cleared of pornography charges

A Zambian newspaper editor has been acquitted of pornography charges after she e-mailed officials photos of a woman giving birth unassisted to a baby who did not survive.

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Quest for the one-horned rhino

Mahatma Gandhi

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Zambians wear black in protest against corruption

Thousands of Zambians are wearing black to protest the acquittal of corruption charges of former President Frederick Chiluba.

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Ex-Zambian leader acquitted of corruption charges

A magistrate acquitted former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba of corruption charges Monday after a six-year trial in a ruling that overjoyed his supporters but frustrated clean-government campaigners in Africa.

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Bishops, press lobby condemn editor's arrest

Zambia's Catholic bishops and the International Press Institute are condemning the arrest of an editor who illustrated the consequences of a health workers' strike by e-mailing officials photos of a woman giving birth in the streets of the capital.

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Clarification: Bike distribution in Zambia

In a June 24 story, The Associated Press reported that World Bicycle Relief would spend $7.5 million over three years to distribute 50,000 bikes to school children in Zambia.

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Zambian president sworn in, opponent protests

A veteran ruling party member was sworn in as the new president of Zambia Sunday promising to continue the free-market policies of a government that greatly expanded trade between China and one of the world's top copper producers.

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Zambia opposition leader leads early poll results

Zambia's main opposition candidate was ahead Friday in early presidential election results in this southern African nation, but his lead was slowly narrowing.

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Zambian leader's wife says he died unappreciated

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa was buried Wednesday on what would have been his 60th birthday amid accolades from fellow African leaders, but his widow said he died a sad, unappreciated man.

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Zambia mourns president; funeral set for Monday

Zambians wept on the streets of the capital, Parliament suspended its session and even a doctors' strike was called off as the southern African nation mourned its president Wednesday.

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Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa dies at 59

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, who broke the African tradition of silence and solidarity among leaders to denounce neighboring Zimbabwe's economic ruin, died in a French military hospital Tuesday. He was 59.

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Zambia's president taken to hospital

Zambia's president is missing the opening of the African Union summit after being rushed to a hospital.

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Reporter Gets Circumcised to Fight AIDS

A southern African radio correspondent has been receiving a flood of text messages and cell phone calls — some from offended listeners and readers.

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Zambia Starts Demolishing Illegal Shacks

Workers under police guard have started tearing down illegally built shacks that have mushroomed across Zambia, despite pleas from human rights groups that thousands will be left homeless during an exceptionally heavy rainy season.

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Ivory DNA test takes poachers to tusk

Illegal ivory tusks seized in Singapore in 2002 give reveal the scale of the poaching problem (Image: PNAS)

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Zambia President Rupiah Banda has ordered scores of monkeys removed from the grounds of his official residence, after one urinated on him during a press conference, a parks official said Tuesday.

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Two Zambian journalists have been charged with contempt of court after publishing an article in support of their news editor who is on trial. The journalists say charges against Chansa Kabwela - that she distributed obscene material - should be dropped.

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Frederick Chiluba, the former President of Zambia, walked from court a free man today after he was acquitted of all charges at the end of a six-year trial that was supposed to usher in a new era of toughness towards corrupt African leaders.

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These amazing pictures show why you shouldn't get between an African elephant and its favourite food. Mfuwe Lodge in Zambia happens to have been built next to a mango tree that one family of pachyderms have always visited when the fruit ripens.

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The news editor of the Zambian newspaper The Post has gone on trial for allegedly circulating obscene material to politicians, including photos of a woman giving birth in a parking lot outside a hospital from which she had been turned away.

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THE photographs were shocking. People flinched when they saw them. The editors of The Post, an independent daily in Zambia, decided such gruesome pictures were simply not publishable.

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Experts have identified a highly contagious and lethal new viral disease, which infected five people in Southern Africa. With some similarities to Ebola, the so-called Lujo virus may have passed to people from rodents. More Articles

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Zambia, one of Zimbabwe's neighbouring countries, stations its crack 2nd battalion troops at the Tug Argan barracks in the Copperbelt city of Ndola. Zambia's Commandos are at the nearby Mushili depot.

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"I can give you no better explanation in miniature of the wicked thing that I believe is now happening in Africa.

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Esther Phiri fought her way out of the slums to become Zambia's most famous athlete and a symbol of female empowerment.

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The number of people being observed for traces of the deadly mystery viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) has climbed to 144 and has spread across two countries.

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It's not everyday that you see a wild elephant standing next to you at the reception of a hotel.

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Hope makes a difference in people's ability to tolerate poverty; parents are willing to sacrifice as long as their children have a future. Our top priority should be to provide credible hope where it has been lacking.

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Extracting elephant DNA from confiscated ivory could be an important tool to take wildlife investigations a step farther and to stop poaching at its source.

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""Barack Obama chooses Delaware Senator Joe Biden (pictured) as his vice-presidential running mate in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. At least 60 people die following twin suicide bombings outside the Pakistan Ordnance Factories in Wah, Pakistan.

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The problem with Africa is simply of ignorance helped by people that benefit from keeping it poor. Catering to the consumer needs of Africa's small minority of rich is being touted as progress while the majority live in extreme poverty.

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Zambia's president isn't dead afterall - Don't believe everything you read

Don't believe everything you read.

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