Livingstone

Zambia: Looking Back - Miriam Makeba At Zambezi Sun

Posted to the web 14 November 2008 Kelvin Kachingwe THE night, no doubt, belonged to Miriam Makeba. This was on New Year's eve in 2004, and the stage was set at the Zambezi Sun Hotel in Livingstone. Sun International, with its...

1871: Journalist Henry Stanley finds the missing explorer Dr David Livingstone at Ujiji, near...

Livingstone was a Scottish missionary and one of the greatest European explorers of Africa, whose opening up the interior of the continent contributed to the 'Scramble for Africa'. David Livingstone was born at Blantyre, south...

Voters' views

Zambians tell the BBC what issues will influence their vote when they go to the polls on Thursday to choose a successor to the late President Levy Mwanawasa, who died in August after suffering a stroke. HONEST MWANDU, 36,...

Zambia: Rumors of Opposition 'Thuggery' Troubling

Posted to the web 29 October 2008 Reports coming out of Livingstone of blatant thuggery by opposition cadres are a stark reminder of the potential that rumours have to set this country on fire. The rumours are being fuelled by...

Zambia: Cadres Riot Over Suspect Contraband

United Party for National Development (UPND) and Patriotic Front (PF) supporters in Livingstone yesterday rioted, stoning a police vehicle after authorities refused to yield to allow them to physically inspect the contents of...

Zambian Bloggers Discuss Presidential Election

Thursday, October 30, 2008, is the day set aside in Zambia as a presidential ‘by-election’ date to replace the just deceased President Levy Mwanawasa (Levy). Mwanawasa had a stroke and passed away in a Paris hospital on August...

Zambian cops break up protest

Lusaka - Zambian police broke up an angry crowd of opposition supporters who had surrounded two trucks carrying materials for this week's presidential election, a private radio station reported on Tuesday. The crowd stopped the...

SA trucks attacked in Zambia

Lusaka - Zambian police broke up an angry crowd of opposition supporters who had surrounded two trucks carrying materials for this week's presidential election, a private radio station reported on Tuesday. The crowd stopped the...

Zambia: Riots over alleged fake ballots

The opposition parties in Zambia have protested against an alleged election malpractice on the streets of Livingstone. This happened after authorities refused to open the two truck containers impounded last night on suspicion...