Zambia: President Hichilema declares Friday public holiday, day of burial of Zambian former President Banda

16 march 2022 - 15:30:03
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has declared Friday, 18 March, a public holiday. A statement issued by acting [...] Full text...

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Zambia’s main opposition suspends campaigns as nation mourns former president Kaunda

17 june 2021 - 16:01:25
  Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambia’s main opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) and its alliance partners has announced the [...] Full text...

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Zambia’s former president’s son jailed for stealing phone

17 may 2018 - 07:57:25
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambia’s former president Frederick Chiluba’s son, Frederick Chiluba Jr., has been convicted and sentenced to eight [...] Full text...

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Zambia: President Zuma in Zambia for State visit

12 october 2017 - 13:15:45
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – South African President Jacob Zuma began a two-day State Visit to Zambia Thursday aimed at deepening [...] Full text...

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Zambia: President assents to Zambian constitution amendment bills

05 january 2016 - 17:58:24
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambian President Edgar Lungu on Tuesday signed the constitution amendment bills giving effect to a new [...] Full text...

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Zambia: Zambian President to sign Constitution Amendment Bill

04 january 2016 - 15:34:04
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambian President Edgar Lungu is expected to sign the Constitution Amendment Bill on Tuesday at a [...] Full text...

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Zambia: Former Zambian VP petitions parliament over Justice minister misleading Assembly

03 december 2015 - 15:01:32
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambia's former Vice President, Godfrey Miyanda, has petitioned parliament charging that Justice Minister Ngosa Simbyakula misled [...] Full text...

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Zambia: Civil Society coalition opposes proposed amendment to Constitution

14 august 2015 - 07:33:01
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The Civil Society Constitution Coalition (CSCC), a loose coalition of 16 civil society organisations in Zambia, [...] Full text...

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Zambia: Media applaud President Lungu’s mediation in South Sudan

07 february 2015 - 12:05:59
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The local press this week commented, among other issues, on the invitation of Zambian President Edgar [...] Full text...

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Zambia: African leaders pay tribute to Zambian late President as he is laid to rest

11 november 2014 - 15:41:25
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who is also chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), has [...] Full text...

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Zambia: Zambia's poor see their hopes dashed in passing of President Sata (Analysis by Mildred Mulenga, PANA Correspondent)

02 november 2014 - 18:08:54
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – He was a visionary leader, a true patriot, a firm supporter of equality and his tolerance [...] Full text...

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Zambia: President Sata’s body expected in Zambia Saturday

30 october 2014 - 15:32:28
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambia’s Secretary to the Cabinet, Roland Msiska, has announced that President Michael Sata’s body will arrive [...] Full text...

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Zambia: Zambians mourn President Sata as country gets first white leader

29 october 2014 - 15:21:04
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambians have received the death of President Michael Sata who passed away in a London hospital [...] Full text...

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Zambia: Media salute Zambia’s 50 years of peace, unity

25 october 2014 - 11:47:36
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The spotlight in local newspapers this week was on the commemoration of Zambia’s 50 years of [...] Full text...

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Zambia: Zambia celebrates 50 years of independence amid concerns of high-level poverty

24 october 2014 - 15:27:31
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambians on Friday put aside political diversity to celebrate the country’s 50 years of independence where [...] Full text...

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Zambia: Media express worry over corruption in the judiciary

12 july 2014 - 12:46:18
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The acknowledgement of corruption in the Judiciary by acting Chief Justice Lombe Chibesakunda made headlines this [...] Full text...

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Zambia: President Sata testifies in defamation case against Daily Nation

21 may 2014 - 15:06:01
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambian President Michael Sata on Wednesday narrated, in the Lusaka High Court, how aggrieved he was [...] Full text...

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Zambia: Zambians slam Indian mining investor for mocking government (A PANA feature by Mildred Mulenga)

18 may 2014 - 09:54:35
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambians have reacted with shock and dismay at a leaked video on Youtube showing Anil Agarwal, [...] Full text...

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Zambia: Media highlight campaign to fight corruption

12 april 2014 - 08:35:18
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The media this week highlighted the need to fight corruption as the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) announced [...] Full text...

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Former Zambia president, Rupiah Banda, arrested for alleged corruption

25 march 2013 - 18:01:36
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambia’s former president, Rupiah Banda, was Monday formally arrested by police for alleged abuse of authority [...] Full text...

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Zambia’s former president loses immunity

15 march 2013 - 18:29:20
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The Zambian parliament on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution to remove former president Rupiah Banda’s immunity, [...] Full text...

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Lawyer denounces plan to remove Zambian ex-president's immunity

15 march 2013 - 14:30:20
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambian former president Rupiah Banda’s lawyer has denounced plans by the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) party [...] Full text...

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Zambia to have new constitution in 2013

30 november 2012 - 09:13:00
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - With its four previous attempts at drawing up a durable republican constitution ending in failure, there [...] Full text...

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Malawi ex-President Muzuli to visit Zambia

24 december 2011 - 15:48:58
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi 's former president Bakili Muluzi will from Wednesday pay a two-day visit to Zambia [...] Full text...

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Zambia’s ruling party ousted after 20 years

23 september 2011 - 08:01:05
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Outspoken opposition Patriotic Front (PF) leader Michael Sata has been declared winner of Zambia's presidential elections. In [...] Full text...

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Zambia: Hundreds bid farewell to ex-president Chiluba

27 june 2011 - 14:14:18
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambia’s second republican president Frederick Chiluba, who died 18 June, was laid to rest Monday at [...] Full text...

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Kenya mourns ex-Zambian President Chiluba

20 june 2011 - 08:40:15
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga has paid a glowing tribute to Zambia's former President Frederick Chiluba, [...] Full text...

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Zambia declares national mourning for late ex-president Chiluba

19 june 2011 - 17:17:18
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambian President Rupiah Banda has declared one-week national mourning, effective Monday, for the late former president [...] Full text...

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Zambia’s former president, Frederick Chiluba, is dead

18 june 2011 - 08:17:08
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambia’s second republican president, Frederick Chiluba, is dead. According to the state-run Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation [...] Full text...

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Zambian police officer charged with treason

18 january 2011 - 18:54:45
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – A Lusaka Police officer has been charged with treason for allegedly agitating for the secession of [...] Full text...

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Convicted Zambian coup plotter freed

30 december 2010 - 08:49:21
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Stephen Lungu, alias Captain Solo, who was convicted for masterminding the 1997 failed coup in Zambia, [...] Full text...

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Zambia's ex-finance minister jailed for corruption

26 may 2010 - 19:06:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA)- â" Zambia's former finance minister, Katele Kalumba, has been jailed for five years for corruption. Lusaka [...] Full text...

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Zambian Minister dies in Nigeria

01 march 2010 - 17:33:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambiaâ?s Home Affairs Deputy Minister Misheck Bonshe i s dead. Home Affairs Minister Lameck Mangani, [...] Full text...

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Zambian Info Minister orders public media to withdraw from Press Assoc

13 january 2010 - 08:09:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's Information and Broadcasting Services Minister Ronnie Shikapwasha has called on the country's public media to [...] Full text...

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Zambians protest acquittal of ex-president Chiluba

02 october 2009 - 19:45:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Hundreds of thousands of workers across Zambia Friday re ported for work dressed in black attires [...] Full text...

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Zambia withdraws appeal against Chiluba's acquittal on graft charges

27 august 2009 - 08:54:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia has withdrawn the notice of appeal filed by prose cutors from the Taskforce on Corruption [...] Full text...

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Do not appeal Chilubaâ?s acquittal yet, says DPP (Corrected)

25 august 2009 - 17:13:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Chalwe M chenga, has told the Task Force on Corruption [...] Full text...

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Do not to appeal Chilubaâ?s acquittal yet, says DPP

25 august 2009 - 16:52:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Chalwe M chenga, has told the Task Force on Corruption [...] Full text...

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Zambian president denies influencing Chilubaâ?s acquittal in corruption case

21 august 2009 - 16:54:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambian President Rupiah Banda has denied that he influe nced the outcome of former President Frederick [...] Full text...

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Zambia's former president Chiluba wants his immunity restored

20 august 2009 - 09:44:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambiaâ?s former president Frederick Chiluba has writte n to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Amusaa [...] Full text...

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Malawi Ex-Leader's camp sees hope In Zambia's Chiluba acquittal

17 august 2009 - 19:12:00
Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Monday's Lusaka Magistrates Court's landmark ruling cl earing former Zambian president Frederick Chiluba of all corruption [...] Full text...

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Malawi Ex-Leader's camp sees hope In Zambia's Chiluba acquittal

17 august 2009 - 15:56:00
Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Monday's Lusaka Magistrates Court's landmark ruling cl earing former Zambian president Frederick Chiluba of all corruption [...] Full text...

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Judgement delayed in Chiluba graft case

14 august 2009 - 10:05:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Former Zambian president Frederick Chiluba Friday appear ed in the magistrate court in Lusaka to hear [...] Full text...

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Zambia’s ex-finance minister has case to answer - Court

15 april 2009 - 15:44:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The Lusaka Magistrates Court here on Wednesday declared that former finance minister Katele Kalumba and six [...] Full text...

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Zambia's ex-president's wife jailed

03 march 2009 - 19:43:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- A Zambian magistrate court here on Tuesday sentenced the wife of second republic president, Frederick Chiluba, [...] Full text...

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Ex-minister petitions chief justice to probe transport Minister in Zambia

17 february 2009 - 11:59:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's former Communications and Transport Minister, William Harrington, has petitioned acting chief justice Irene Mambilima to [...] Full text...

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