PF’s Micheal Sata wins Zambian 2011 presidential election.
The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) is currently updating the results of the last election, held on September 20. But with 95% of electoral constituencies already scrutinised it is clear that the southern African republic will change its leadership… Continue reading
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Zambia: the Cobra has been throned
Interview with King Cobra
The Zambian leader Micheal Sata talks about Zambian elections and the role of foreign investments in his country.
In a small office in Central Lusaka, behind piles of documents and folders, I met the would-be next president of Zambia, Michael Sata. A dusty sculpture of a rising cobra stares down on us while Sata, dressed in a colourful kitenge … Continue reading
An African story
Civil War forced Jacques to leave his home in Congo and escape to Uganda, where he founded a primary school for refugees. This is his story, in first person.
My name is Jacques Bwira, I was born thirty-seven years ago in Kitchanga, Nord-Kivu Province of former Zaïre, now the Democratic Republic of Congo … Continue reading
Being Chinese in Zambia
Little is being written on Chinese people who live in Africa. Who are they, how do they live, do they represent a threat to African economic independence?
Fifteen years ago, the chief of a hospital in Henan Province, China, announced to his young assistant, Dr Zhang, that he had been selected for going to Africa … Continue reading
Conversation with a witchdoctor
Traditional religions are still strong in Africa and they are building complex and (usually) peaceful relations with western science and christianity.
Cituku is waiting for me in an unadorned hut under the trees, in the middle of a valley stretching between two green hills of central Uganda. I bend on my knees to make it through the tiny entrance … Continue reading
Dying slowly: how life goes in a refugee camp
Listen to the voice of refugees who lost their future at Kyaka II refugee camp in western Uganda.
Kyaka II refugee settlement lays on a vast area amidst the lush and green-painted hills of western Uganda. This is home to roughly 16,000 refugees, mostly coming form the DRC, Sudan and Rwanda … Continue reading
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