We might be forgiven for ignoring the rest of the world the last couple of weeks, while our would-be future leaders spoke their minds on the state of our union, belittled each other, and whispered sweet nothings about the glittering promise of...
"It has not been possible to reduce poverty and I feel sad about it," said Zambia's president, Levy Mwanawasa, in 2005. He compounded his outbreak of honesty by admitting that "unfortunately, if Zambians made a mistake to elect me as president, they...
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's ruling MMD party chose the country's vice president, Rupiah Banda, on Friday as its candidate to fight a November election to replace the late President Levy Mwanawasa, a party official said.
Banda beat off a challenge...
JOHANNESBURG President Levy Mwanawasa of Zambia, whose economic policies won the confidence of international donors and whose robust criticism of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe made him an anomaly among African heads of state, died Tuesday...
The condition of Zambian
President Levy Mwanawasa has suddenly worsened. Mr. Mwanawasa, who was elected in 2002 and is in the middle of a
second four-year term, has been under treatment in a Paris hospital since early
July after suffering a...
Background
Levy Patrick Mwanawasa (born September 3, 1948) is the incumbent President of Zambia since 2002.
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