Vol 45 No 5 |
- AFRICA
- DIAMONDS
Trouble in Lusaka There were problems with delivery and the contract was cancelled amid recriminations and allegations; the DiamondWorks contract was also cited as part of the problem when Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa fired his Vice-President Enock P...
So President Levy Mwanawasa's attempt to sack the DPP Mukelebai Mukelebai (AC Vol 45 No 1) was condemned by state advocates the Law Association of Zambia and other civic and religious bodies...
Zambia's governing Movement for Multi-party Democracy is split between supporters of President Levy Mwanawasa and the 'true blue' backers of ex-President Frederick Chiluba (who will spend a lot of time in court facing corruption and theft charges)...
President Levy Mwanawasa has just won three parliamentary by-elections and is getting stronger...
When Cherise Makubale beat eleven contestants this month in Big Brother Africa an international 'reality television' show avidly followed in Zambia President Levy Mwanawasa immediately appointed her a Roving Ambassador with full diplomatic status...
President Levy Mwanawasa's government agreed a budget for 2003 with the International Monetary Fund and overspent it by 612 billion kwacha; the IMF's man in Lusaka Mark Ellyne says it therefore will not release the US$100 million conditionally pledged to support the agreed deficit...
In an unexpected reshuffle on 28 May President Levy Mwanawasa sacked Vice-President Enock Kavindele long-time friend and Finance Minister Emmanuel Kasonde and Information Minister Newstead Zimba...
The legal arguments could continue indefinitely outlasting President Levy Mwanawasa's five-year term of office which ends in 2006...
President Levy Mwanawasa will keep his job if as seems likely the Supreme Court rejects an opposition petition to have the 2001 elections nullified despite strong evidence of fraud by the ruling Movement for Multi-party Democracy...
At last December's presidential election the Electoral Commission of Zambia declared Levy Mwanawasa of the Movement for Multi-party Democracy the winner by fewer than 34 000 votes in a potential electorate of around four million...
