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Copper-rich Zambia's new president should back up his anti-Chinese rhetoric with steps to ensure workers at Chinese-owned mines in this southern African country are safe and adequately paid, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
Zambia's new leader says he won't visit Malawi until he gets an apology for being deported from the neighboring country when he was an opposition chief in 2007, a very public signal that he wants a change in regional relations.
In just two weeks in office, Zambia's president has replaced the country's police chief, top anti-corruption official, central bank governor, state utility CEO and scores of lower-ranking public servants.
Residents of western Zambia were barred from gathering — even for Sunday church services — after an attempt to debate secession led to deadly protests.
Prisons in Zambia are so overcrowded that inmates are sometimes forced to sleep seated or in shifts, and children behind bars are vulnerable to rape by adult prisoners, aids organizations said.
In a June 24 story, The Associated Press reported that World Bicycle Relief would spend $7.5 million over three years to distribute 50,000 bikes to school children in Zambia.
A veteran ruling party member was sworn in as the new president of Zambia Sunday promising to continue the free-market policies of a government that greatly expanded trade between China and one of the world's top copper producers.
Zambia's main opposition candidate was ahead Friday in early presidential election results in this southern African nation, but his lead was slowly narrowing.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa was buried Wednesday on what would have been his 60th birthday amid accolades from fellow African leaders, but his widow said he died a sad, unappreciated man.
Workers under police guard have started tearing down illegally built shacks that have mushroomed across Zambia, despite pleas from human rights groups that thousands will be left homeless during an exceptionally heavy rainy season.
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