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AllAfrica News: Zambia
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Give VP Chance, North-West Appeals to MMD NEC
The MMD in North-Western Province has thrown its weight behind the adoption of acting Republican President, Rupiah Banda as the party's candidate in the upcoming presidential by-election.
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Maintain the Same Unity Displayed in President's Mourning
The nation has bid farewell to President Mwanawasa following the week-long provincial funeral itinerary which wound up in Kabwe yesterday.
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Ronnie, Nevers Join Presidential Race
Home Affairs Minister, Ronnie Shikapwasha and former Republican vice-president, Nevers Mumba have joined the race to become the MMD candidate in the forthcoming presidential by-elections.
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Graft, Divisions Rattle MMD Presidential Race
MMD national secretary Katele Kalumba has revealed that one official aspiring to stand as the party's presidential candidate is spending colossal sums of money to buy support contrary to the code of conduct.
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Teta Warns Against Tempting First Lady to Join Politics
MMD spokesperson, Bennie Tetamashimba has advised that people who are wishing the first lady well should not tempt her into joining politics at the time that she has lost her husband.
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Emulate Mwanawasa, Minister Urges Presidential Hopefuls
The provincial body viewing programme of President Mwanawasa came to an end yesterday with thousands of people in Livingstone and Kabwe turning up to pay their final respects and tribute to the President who died in France on Tuesday last week.
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Mongu Pays Last Respects to Levy
THE day before the body of President Levy Mwanawasa was to arrive in Mongu, life in the provincial headquarters of Western Province literally came to a stand still.
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Expect Excitment in Ruling Party Race
The MMD battle for presidential succession appears to have began in earnest although officially the contestants are not supposed to campaign until after the burial of late President Levy Mwanawasa.
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Kopulande, Mung'omba Join Race
MMD chairman of Commerce and Industry, Sebastian Kopulande and former chairperson of the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) Willa Mungo'mba have joined the race to become the ruling party's candidate in the forthcoming presidential by-election.
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Northern Backs Banda
THE MMD in the Northern Province has resolved to support the adoption of acting Republican President, Rupiah Banda as the party's candidate in the forthcoming presidential by-election.
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Country Continues to Mourn President's Death
SOLWEZI yesterday came to a virtual standstill as thousands of its residents paid final tributes to President Mwanawasa in an emotional North-Western Province funeral at Solwezi airport.
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Four Ruling Party Figures Claim Presidency
VICE-President, Rupiah Banda is among four prominent MMD members who have applied to stand on the party ticket to be floated for the Republican presidency for the forthcoming by-election.
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Succession Battles Rock Country
Although it was reasonable to assume Zambian authorities would take precautions in the event of President Levy Mwanawasa's leaving hospital alive but incapacitated, the topic was strangely treated as taboo ever since he suffered a stroke in June and was hospitalised in Paris.
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Business Sector Confidence is Encouraging
THE confidence emanating from the Zambian business community over continued investor support in the wake of Republican President Mwanawasa's death is most encouraging.
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Citizens Continue to Mourn Levy
THOUSANDS of Mansa residents yesterday thronged Mansa Airport to pay their last respects to the late President Mwanawasa.
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Italy's Napolitano Mourns Levy
ITALIAN President Giorgio Napolitano has expressed sorrow on the death of President Mwanawasa and pledged his country's continued support towards Zambia's economic development.
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Count Maureen Out of Presidency - Teta
MMD spokesperson Bennie Tetamashimba has advised party members to leave First Lady, Maureen Mwanawasa, out of the presidential succession talk saying she is a person of high calibre who cannot go back on her word.
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2006 Voters' Roll for Presidential By-Election
THE 2006 voters' roll will be used in the presidential by-elections to be held in the next 80 days and less than the 3.9 million registered voters will take part in the poll, Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) director, Danny Kalale has said.
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Bandits Snatch K842 Million
FOUR robbers with two AK 47 rifles on Monday afternoon raided a bank in Lusaka and got way with K842 million.
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How Scribes Will Remember Levy
PRESIDENT Levy Mwanawasa, who died in a French hospital on August 19, will be eulogised for many things, but the Zambian media fraternity will definitely extol him as a friendly and well-read leader.
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