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  Zambia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in southern Africa.
On 31 December 1963, the federation was dissolved, and Northern Rhodesia became the Republic of Zambia on 24 October 1964.
Zambia is drained by two major river basins: the Zambezi River basin, in the south; and the Congo River basin, in the north.
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 Zambia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Zambia became a republic immediately upon attaining independence from the UK on October 24th, 1964 and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Zambia is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), the Commonwealth, the African Union (and its predecessor the Organisation of African Unity or OAU), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), which is headquartered in Lusaka.
Zambia was active in the Congolese peace effort after the signing of a cease-fire agreement in Lusaka in July and August 1999, although activity diminished considerably after the Joint Military Commission tasked with implementing the ceasefire relocated to Kinshasa in September 2001.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Zambia   (3949 words)

  
 Politics of Zambia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In accordance with the intention to formalize UNIP supremacy in the new system, the constitution stipulated that the sole candidate in elections for the office of president was the person selected to be the president of UNIP by the party's general conference.
The major figure in Zambian politics from 1964 to 1991 was Kenneth Kaunda, who led the fight for independence and successfully bridged the rivalries among the country's various regions and ethnic groups.
Zambia's first multi-party elections for parliament and the presidency since the 1960s were held on October 31, 1991.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Zambia   (1745 words)

  
 Why War? Keywords: Zambia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I was praying for God to give me food." Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Lesotho have already declared national disasters, and Mozambique and S...
...ent and Grenadines, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Zambia.
Zambia is a republic in south central Africa.
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 Zambia
Zambia has yet to address effectively issues such as reducing the size of the public sector and improving Zambia's social sector delivery systems.
Zambia is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), the Commonwealth, the African Union, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), which is headquartered in Lusaka.
Zambia was the first African state to cooperate with the International Tribunal investigation of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Zambia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
{{mainHistory of Zambia}} The indigenous Khoisan hunter-gatherer occupants of Zambia began to be displaced or absorbed by technologically advanced migrating tribes about 2,000 years ago.
{{morepoliticscountry=Zambia}} Politics of Zambia takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Zambia is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
{{mainDemographics of Zambia}} Zambia's population is comprised of about 72 Bantu-speaking ethnic groups but almost 90% of Zambians belong to the eight main ethnolinguistic groups, which are the Bemba, Nyanja-Chewa, Tonga, Lunda, Luvale, Kaonde, Nkoya and Lozi.
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 History of Zambia
The indigenous hunter-gatherer occupants of Zambia began to be displaced or absorbed by more advanced migrating tribes about 2,000 years ago.
By the latter part of that century, the various peoples of Zambia were largely established in the areas they currently occupy.
In the same year, Northern and Southern Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe, respectively) were proclaimed a British sphere of influence.
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 africa.iafrica.com | c2cnews Ex-military boss nabbed for corruption
A former military commander in Zambia was arrested and charged with corruption for allegedly engaging in illegal business deals while serving under former president Frederick Chiluba, an official said on Wednesday.
General Wilford Funjika, former commander of the Zambia National Service (ZNS), was arrested for corrupt practices on Tuesday and detained along with a private businessman, Anuj Rathi, said Mpazi Sinyangwe, spokesperson for the task force on corruption.
Zambia's former intelligence boss Xavier Chungu is also in detention on charges of stealing government vehicles, abuse of office and corruption allegedly committed during his 10 years in the post.
africa.iafrica.com /c2cnews/308641.htm   (212 words)

  
 Zambia (06/06)
The Government of Zambia has not yet introduced legislation to propose changes to electoral procedures, and it is expected that the electoral process will not be changed significantly before national elections are held in the second half of 2006.
Zambia is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), the African Union, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), which is headquartered in Lusaka.
Volunteers are working in eight of Zambia's nine provinces building local capacity to manage family fish farms, to manage and preserve wildlife resources, to implement health reforms at the village level, to introduce interactive radio instruction for primary school children, and to extend HIV/AIDS education efforts.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2359.htm   (4085 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Zambia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Among them, the Tonga people were first to settle in Zambia and are believed to have come from the far east near the "big sea" believed to be the Red Sea where human civilisation started.
Zambia became a republic immediately upon attaining independence from the UK on October 24th, 1964.
There are several private schools in Zambia as well which operate under either the British or American way of schooling, notably the International School of Lusaka (ISL).
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/zambia   (3761 words)

  
 Zambia: MISA Statement on Press
Zambia: MISA Statement on Press Date Distributed (ymd): 961208 The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) is a non-governmental organisation promoting media freedom and diversity in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region.
As the attached chronology of recent events suggest, the situation is set to deteriorate further in the wake of Zambia's recent elections.
Mung'omba was quoted in the story as calling on the government to nullify the November 18 elections "or face the consequences of their actions".
www.africaaction.org /docs96/zam9611.mis.htm   (1849 words)

  
 Ethno-Net Database: Zambia
A person born in or outside Zambia after the commencement of this Constitution shall become a citizen of Zambia at the date of his birth if on that date at least one of his parents is a citizen of Zambia.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that a person born in Zambia before the 1st of April, 1986, whose father was an established resident shall continue to enjoy the rights and privileges, under, and shall remain subject to, the law prevailing immediately before that date.
(d) for the removal of a person from Zambia to be tried outside Zambia for a criminal offence or to undergo imprisonment in some other country in execution of the sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence under the law in force in Zambia of which he has been convicted.
www.ethnonet-africa.org /data/zambia/const.htm   (9280 words)

  
 Zambia
Additional information on entry requirements may be obtained from the Embassy of the Republic of Zambia, 2419 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20008, telephone (202) 265-9717 or 19.
Travel to military areas and photographing military facilities, airports, bridges, and other facilities deemed to be of security relevance, are prohibited.
Service providers in Zambia, including the tourism sector, are not subject to the same standards of safety oversight that exist in the United States; visitors should evaluate risks carefully.
travel.state.gov /travel/zambia.html   (2445 words)

  
 Zambia 2000: Country Report
The journalists were originally arrested and charged in March 1999, for a report alleging that Zambia's army could not withstand an attack from Angola.
Zimba also attacked the Zambia Independent Media Association (ZIMA) and the Inter-African Network for Human Rights and Development (AFRONET), two civil society groups that had accused his ministry of unfairly silencing "Let the People Speak," a popular series on social issues that was broadcast by the private Radio Phoenix.
Jere, Zambia correspondent for Agence France-Presse and a contributor to the private weekly The Monitor, said he was threatened after reporting that Xavier Chungu, head of Zambia's intelligence services, had been named in a UN report about the involvement of several African governments in the Angolan civil war.
www.cpj.org /attacks00/africa00/Zambia.html   (1998 words)

  
 AEGiS-AFP News: Zambia-military-AIDS: Zambia army to discriminate against HIV positive soldiers - Mars 5, 2003
LUSAKA, March 5 (AFP) - Zambia will not recruit anybody who is HIV positive to its defence forces, a military chief was reported on Tuesday as saying.
Zambia's Defence Force Medical Services director Brigadier General James Simpungwe said military life was extremely active and that it could accelerate the development of HIV into full-grown AIDS, the Post newspaper said.
However, the defence forces will not discriminate against soldiers who are already infected with HIV virus, the state-run Times of Zambia report said.
www.aegis.com /NEWS/AFP/2003/AF030309.html   (359 words)

  
 ICL - Zambia - Constitution
(1) A Citizen of Zambia shall cease to be such a citizen if at any time he acquires the citizenship of a country other than Zambia by a voluntary act other than marriage or does any act indicating his intention to adopt or make use of such citizenship.
(1) Zambia shall be divided into constituencies, for purposes of elections to the National Assembly so that the number of such constituencies, the boundaries of which shall be such as an Electoral Commission prescribes, shall be equal to the number of seats of elected members in the Assembly.
of Zambia which shall be the final court of appeal for the Republic and shall have such jurisdiction and powers as may be conferred on it by this Constitution or any other law.
www.oefre.unibe.ch /law/icl/za00000_.html   (14912 words)

  
 Zambia Military manpower - fit for military service - Military   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Zambia Military manpower - fit for military service
This entry gives the number of males and females age 15-49 fit for military service.
This is a more refined measure of potential military manpower availability which tries to account for the health situation in the country and reduces the maximum potential number to a more realistic estimate of the actual number fit to serve.
www.indexmundi.com /zambia/military_manpower_fit_for_military_service.html   (110 words)

  
 Zambia
Zambia is a republic governed by a president and a unicameral national assembly.
On January 10, police revoked the rally permit of B.Y. Mwila, the former president of the Zambia Republican Party (ZRP); the revocation reportedly was made at the behest of Sylvia Masebo, ZRP Secretary General and Minister of Housing and Local Government.
The Government also filed corruption charges against several officials of the current administration and former military commanders, including: Lieutenant Generals Wilford Funjika, Sande Kayumba, and Geojago Musengule, who were charged in separate cases of procurement fraud; and Samuel Musonda, the former managing director of a state-owned bank, who was accused of abuse of office.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41633.htm   (9822 words)

  
 Africa 14
She was detained to assist police in locating her husband, Ackim Ngoma, a security guard at Galaun Holdings Ltd. After investigations and inquiries by the Zambian based NGO AFRONET, Police Officers Nyimbiri and Mfuzi, accused of torturing Nchimunya, were arrested.
On March 10 and 11, six journalists from the Post newspaper were detained by the police for publishing a story headlined "Angola Worries Zambia Army." The story criticized Zambia's military capability and preparedness in the face of a possible military attack from Angola.
In May 1999, Zambia's cooperating partners emphasized the immediate importance of good governance, including the protection of human rights, freedom of the press, fighting corruption, and institutional capacity building.
www.hrw.org /wr2k/Africa-13.htm   (1393 words)

  
 Africa: Country Report
Zambia continued to be one of southern Africa's worst press freedom offenders.
A severe crackdown on Zambia's biggest independent newspaper, The Post, came in the context of increasingly troubled relations between Zambia and Angola, owing to Angolan allegations that Zambian government ministers were involved in smuggling arms to UNITA rebels.
In May, Information Minister Zimba told the Zambia News Agency that his government had no intention of repealing laws that restrict access to information and other aspects of press freedom (at least 26 such statutes remain on the books).
www.cpj.org /attacks99/africa99/Zambia.html   (1016 words)

  
 ZAMBIA
117 On February 4, the Zambia Police responded, saying that they regretted to inform UNIP "that due to the current security situation that is prevailing in the District we are unable to allow you to go ahead."118 The deputy commissioner of police also wrote UNIP refusing permission.
This is Zambia, you should watch out." Zulu said that the levels of harassment were sufficient that his friends and acquaintances were afraid to be associated with him.
For example, a University of Zambia secretary, Gertrude Mwewa, was suspended from her job on allegations that she was working for Alfred Zulu and ZIMT.
www.hrw.org /reports/1997/zambia/Zambia-03.htm   (11049 words)

  
 Zambia (British Empire & Commonwealth Land Forces)
Northern Rhodesia became an independent republic in 1964 as Zambia.
The Flag of Zambia (African Studies, Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Zambia, by Gunnar Anzinger (Governments on the WWW)
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 AdmiNet - Zambia
Government of the Republic of Zambia: Statements and Press Summaries
Zambia Confederation of Industries and Chambers of Commerce
Zambia Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry
adminet.com /world/zm   (81 words)

  
 Zambia Military manpower - military age - Military   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Zambia Military manpower - military age - Military
Home > Zambia > Military > Military manpower - military age
This entry gives the minimum age at which an individual may volunteer for military service or be subject to conscription.
www.indexmundi.com /zambia/military_manpower_military_age.html   (53 words)

  
 Who are we training? - Indymedia Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The participation of the members of the military forces of other nations has the marked advantage of building useful international links as regards the potential interoperability and familiarity between our Defence Forces and the military of other states with whom they may well undertake international peacekeeping duties in future.
The list mainly comprises NATO countries but the military of Zambia and other non-NATO countries have received training, which is welcome.
The information requested by the Deputy is as follows: International military observers and staff officers course: Fundamentals of UN peacekeeping; UN mission administration; Operational duties and the military observer; Command and staff duties for UN missions; and Health, safety and survival.
www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=73362&print_page=true   (1892 words)

  
 Zambia News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
THE aggression with which the Zambia police service is meeting bandits is something that the command should continue stressing as thieves seem to be occupying centre-stage.
Zambia: Focus On the Bigger Picture, Kapita Urges UPND Members
Zambia: Country Has One of Highest Number of Orphans, Says UNDP Official
www.einnews.com /zambia   (448 words)

  
 Learn more about Zambia in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Learn more about Zambia in the online encyclopedia.
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www.onlineencyclopedia.org /z/za/zambia.html   (122 words)

  
 Zambia 2003 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, ...
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 2,418,776 (2003 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 1,279,846 (2003 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 0.9% (FY02)
www.theodora.com /wfb2003/zambia/zambia_military.html   (86 words)

  
 Military Flags - Welcome to Patriotic House
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Our products range from flags of the American Revolution to the national flag of Zambia.
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 Times of Zambia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dr Mumba said in Lusaka yesterday that Zambia owed its military strength to China and thanked the Chinese People’s Liberation Army for the support.
“There is also a mass programme to instal GSM countrywide with the help of the Chinese and in all the people of Zambia have valued the generosity of your government,” he said.
In reply, Chinese delegation leader Lieutenant General Zhang Wentai said China and Zambia defence forces would continue exploring ways of improving military strength of the two countries.
www.times.co.zm /news/viewnews.cgi?category=4&id=1064261196   (249 words)

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