By Tom Burgis in Johannesburg The fate of Levy Mwanawasa, Zambia's president, was last night shrouded in confusion amid reports that he had died in a Paris hospital after suffering a stroke. Mr Mwanawasa, one of the continent's most forthright critics of Robert Mugabe's government in Zimbabwe, was hospitalised on Sunday after arriving in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh for an African Union summit. On Wednesday he was flown to a military hospital in Paris for specialist treatment. But yesterday the government was forced to deny rumours of his death. "The doctors attending [Mr Mwanawasa] are happy with progress made so far and his condition remains stable," said Rupiah Banda, the vice-president who is at the helm while the president is out of the country. Mr Mwanawasa holds the regional bloc's rotating chair and led...
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