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Meet Naimah: a rising Zambian singer blending sounds in SA
News Diggers
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August 16, 2025
Zambian singer-songwriter and mental health advocate Naimah says it’s never been easy to market her music, and that’s because she refuses to be boxed into a single genre. Her songs blend English, local languages such as Nyanja and Bemba, and even...
Trump’s assault on global health is cruel — and it’s making America look weak
Salon
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August 16, 2025
The totalitarian playbook that Donald Trump seems to follow lacks a chapter. Power-crazed the president may be, but he fails to grasp soft power. Wise military and diplomatic minds understand it well. George C. Marshall, the nation’s top general...
Zambia Insists Chinese River Poisoning 'Under Control' as U.S. Orders Personnel Away
Breitbart
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August 11, 2025
The U.S. embassy in Zambia has ordered all U.S. government personnel to avoid the area around the Chinese-owned mine near the northern city of Kitwe because “hazardous and carcinogenic substances” released during an accident six months ago may...
Why Is the U.S. Paying to Burn Birth Control?
Ms. Magazine
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August 15, 2025
Nearly $10 million worth of contraceptives are being stored in this warehouse in Geel, Belgium by the U.S. development agency USAID. Following Trump’s decision to dismantle USAID, they are slated to be destroyed. (Luc Claessen / Belga / AFP via...
PRESIDENT HAKAINDE HICHILEMA LEADERSHIP TRANSFORMING ZAMBIA POSITIVELY, THE OPPOSITION HAVE NOTHING TO OPPOSE APART FROM JUST INSULTING – SUSAN TEMBO
Zambian Observer
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August 15, 2025
PRESIDENT HAKAINDE HICHILEMA LEADERSHIP TRANSFORMING ZAMBIA POSITIVELY, THE OPPOSITION HAVE NOTHING TO OPPOSE APART FROM JUST INSULTING – SUSAN TEMBO Zambia is transforming under President Hakainde Hichilema’s leadership through people-centered,...
First-year medical students celebrate their new white coats
Cornell Chronicle - New York
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August 15, 2025
Jennifer Weiss’s path to medicine began as a young child, when an ambulance responded to her New Jersey home to care for her father, who has heart disease. During the scary episode, one of Weiss’ earliest memories, the emergency medical...
Tanzania earns 116bn/- as revenue from medical tourism doubles
Daily News Tanzania
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August 15, 2025
DAR ES SALAAM: THE Director of Diplomacy from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador John Ulanga, has said there has been a 19 percent increase in medical tourism, which earned Tanzania 166.5bn in four years. He said that from 2021 to 2025,...
Christopher Kang’ombe Positions Himself as a Strong Candidate for Zambia’s Presidency
Zambian Observer
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August 15, 2025
Using an academic syllabus as an analogy, Kang’ombe explained that he has completed all three phases of a political syllabus: starting as a councillor, then mayor, and now an MP. “The presidency is the last position one can aspire to. You can’t be...
IT WOULD BE AN ABSOLUTE HONOUR TO PUT ECL TO REST IN ZAMBIA SAYS AMOS CHANDA AS HE BACKS MAIZE EXPORT DECISION
Zambian Observer
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August 15, 2025
IT WOULD BE AN ABSOLUTE HONOUR TO PUT ECL TO REST IN ZAMBIA SAYS AMOS CHANDA AS HE BACKS MAIZE EXPORT DECISION LUSAKA — UPND media official and former special assistant to the late president for press and public relations, Amos Chanda, has urged...
U.S. Department of State report reveals that at least 20 died in zambia police cells in 2024 alone
Zambian Observer
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August 15, 2025
20 DEAD IN POLICE CUSTODY AS TORTURE, KILLINGS CONTINUE …….Zambia Faces Global Scrutiny as Justice System Fails Victims A fresh wave of concern has emerged over extrajudicial killings in Zambia, with the latest U.S. Department of State report...
SAD NEWS: ZAMBIAN BORN U.S AIRMAN DIES DURING PHYSICAL TRAINING
Zambian Observer
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August 15, 2025
SAD NEWS: ZAMBIAN BORN U.S AIRMAN DIES DURING PHYSICAL TRAINING The United States Air Force has launched an investigation into the Aug. 4 death of an airman in California during a physical training assessment. Airman 1st Class Syamukonka Moonga...
Public Health PS Mary Muthoni Leads Kenya Delegation to COMESA Health Ministers Meeting in Lusaka
Capital FM Kenya
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August 14, 2025
LUSAKA, Zambia Aug 14 – Public Health Principal Secretary Mary Muthoni is leading a Ministry of Health delegation to Lusaka, Zambia, for the Second Meeting of COMESA Ministers of Health, which opened on Thursday with a call for joint action to...
Zambian Breweries denies ZRA claims over seized ethanol shipments.
Mwebantu
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August 10, 2025
THE Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has seized two trucks carrying 66,000 litres of smuggled ethanol with a revenue loss of K3 million to the Zambian government. The two trucks which entered Zambia through the Nakonde One Stop Border Post were both...
Morocco outplay Zambia to remain in contention
Gulf Daily News Online
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FOOTBALL – TWO-TIME champions Morocco reignited their African Nations Championship (CHAN) campaign with a clinical 3-1 win over Zambia in Nairobi yesterday night. Goals from Mohamed Hrimat, Oussama Lamlaoui, and Sabir Bougrine secured the Group A...
CIDRZ, Ministry of Health Intensify Targeted HIV Testing Efforts in Lusaka to Close Case Identification Gaps.
Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
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August 13, 2025
The Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health through the Lusaka Provincial Health Office (LPHO), is intensifying efforts to enhance HIV testing strategies in Lusaka Province, in line...
Biased credit ratings are costing Africa billions—and worsening its health crises
Atlantic Council
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August 14, 2025
As Zambia mourned the death of its former President Edgar Lungu on June 5, a quieter crisis was unfolding in the country’s public hospitals. Just days after Lungu’s passing, the Resident Doctors Association of Zambia suspended all voluntary...
Zambian's authorities dismiss claims of Chinese waste spill
MENAFN
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August 10, 2025
(MENAFN) The Zambian government has dismissed a recent warning issued by a US diplomatic mission regarding toxic pollution following a waste spill from a Chinese-run mining operation that affected a major local waterway earlier this year....
Highlights and Goals Morocco vs Zambia (3-1) in African Nations Championship
VAVEL
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August 14, 2025
End of the match: Morocco defeated Zambia 3-1 and continues its path to qualifying for the next African Nations Championship. It was a good performance by the home side, who scored in key moments. Mohamed Hrimat 45'+2' Oussama Lamlioui 66' Sabir...
2024 CHAN: Morocco bounce back with 3-1 win, Zambia exit
Panapress
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August 14, 2025
14 august 2025 - 16:37:37 MA/WA 331 Views Panafrican News Agency Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Two-time champions Morocco reignited their 2024 TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) campaign with a clinical 3-1 win over Zambia in Nairobi on...
How Chinese-mined CSR is revitalising Copperbelt schools, clinics
Zambia Daily Mail
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August 14, 2025
NEWTON SIBANDA Lusaka WHEN pupils at Namboard Community School in Chambishi sat cross-legged on dusty floors 28 years ago, the future looked uncertain. Established in 1997 in a former Food Reserve Agency (FRA) warehouse, the school was a...