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July 13th, 2008

Africa: Summer Reflections (Thoughts from Mothers)

Paula Odhiambo · 09:16

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With this article, Paula Odhiambo salutes all mothers in Africa and reflects on children's compassion and giving, talking about sex with children and announces the birth of a blogger's baby girl. 3 comments · »»

May 10th, 2008

Zambia: Parastatal madness and constitutional debate

Brenda Zulu · 15:32

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This roundup covers Zambian bloggers who are discussing "the parastatal madness," the debate over the constitution of Zambia, the election crisis in Zimbabwe and the African Forum on ICT Best Practices 2008. 1 comment · »»

February 2nd, 2008

Africa: A month into 2008: Hope, Dreams, Living

Paula Odhiambo · 11:27

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2008 is one month old. Different African women bloggers are going through different spiritual experiences. For many, this is just another year, exactly the same as 2007, and 2006, all the way back to the day they were born. 3 comments · »»

January 21st, 2008

Zambia: Mwanawasa - King or President?

Brenda Zulu · 14:06

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This roundup of Zambian blogosphere begins with a post by a Zambian blogger who wants to know if the current Zambian President, Levy Mwanawasa, is a a King or a President. 2 comments · »»

December 31st, 2007

Zambia: We need Enlightenment to end this instanity

Brenda Zulu · 10:01

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Zambian blogosphere continues to grow and bring diverse voices and opinions online as our new Zambian author, Brenda Zulu, shows us in her first roundup. 0 comments · »»

Zambia: We need Enlightenment to end this instanity

Brenda Zulu · 10:01

lingua → es

Zambian blogosphere continues to grow and bring diverse voices and opinions online as our new Zambian author, Brenda Zulu, shows us in her first roundup. 0 comments · »»

November 4th, 2007

Africa Environment: Conservation Efforts, Carbon Footprints and Land Rights

Juliana Rotich · 22:24

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In several posts from Africa, we get a glimpse of conservation efforts in the different countries, hindrances faced in some countries and success in at least one. The countries we read from are South Africa, Zambia and D.R Congo in regards to conservation, and from Kenya and Uganda regarding carbon ... 1 comment · »»

September 20th, 2007

The rise of the Zambian blogsphere

Cho · 10:29

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The Zambian blogsphere is growing. Two years ago one would struggle to find a regularly updated blog covering any meaningful issues. I am happy to report that is now changing. New blogs are being created at pace faster than I can count. And the good news is that what were personal entries are now being transformed into meaningful blogs that seek to encourage dialogue and trading of ideas. 16 comments · »»

Links about Zambia

August 28th, 2008

Following the death of Zambian President, Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian Economist produces a list of kingmakers in the country.

July 28th, 2008

What are the most owned ICT assets in Zambia?: “The Central Statistics Office (CSO) 2006 Living Conditions Monitoring Survey (LCMS IV) results in Zambia indicate that the most owned assets were the radio at 55.6 percent, Cell phones at 24.2 percent and Television at 24 .1 percent while the least owned asset was the internet connection with 0.1 percent.”

Zambian Economist comments on the lack of funding of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Zambia: “Yet another example of how poor funding undermines institutional reform”.

July 20th, 2008

The face of Afrika writes about two sustainable architecture projects in Africa, one in Ghana and the other one in Zamiba, including images of both.

July 17th, 2008

The blog Zambian Economist comments on the lack of information surrounding President Levy Mwanawasa's health. He says: “At the very time when the nation demanded honesty and transparency, they hid the truth, and put their personal agendas ahead of protecting the integrity of the sitting President and the rule of law, in the process losing their long grip on power.”

March 13th, 2008

Cho discusses comments from Zambia's Tourism Deputy Minister about a single visa for the SADC region: “The Univisa proposal should make the SADC region more attractive to tourists , relative to other regions, as it expands the choice available to them. The extent of these benefits will depend on the extent to which air travel in SADC can be further liberalised to allow tourists to move much more easily across countries.”

February 5th, 2008

New Zambia writes about the 2008 Zambia National Budget: “The Finance Minister, Mr Magande delivered the 2008 National Budget on Friday, apparently under emergence power from a generator. complacency to embrace the collective vision of his or her society.”

November 29th, 2007

Ben Loxo takes us to Zambia for a musical journey: “Wow, busy week. Feeling a bit tired this morning. A little Zambian “you’ve done me wrong” acoustic by George Kazoka lifts me out of bed and into my mug of coffee.”