Zambia, Africa

LUSAKA Friday, November 14, 2008 (IRIN) - The Zambian government has warned that a looming food crisis in the country's refugee camps could cause...

The fall in international copper prices is causing unease in Zambia, one of the world's largest producers, whose impressive economic growth in recent...

Zambia cemented its democratic credentials on 30 October in an election that observers judged free and fair, even though a defeated opposition leader...

The Zambian government has closed its border to any refugees arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as fighting intensifies in the east...

Widespread allegations of pre-poll irregularities has cranked up tensions in Zambia ahead of presidential elections on 30 October to elect a...

Levy Mwanawasa, the President of Zambia died yesterday at age 59. He died in a Paris hospital in France. His death was intially announced by an...

In a landmark ruling on 15 July, the High Court in Lusaka, capital of Zambia, ordered the government to pay about US$13,000 compensation to a...

The Zambian government insisted today that President Levy Mwanawasa was alive - denying media reports he had died in a Paris hospital - and described...

Zimbabweans seeking greener pastures in neighbouring Zambia – and an escape from the election violence wracking the country – are becoming...

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has begun the voluntary repatriation of Ugandan refugees in Zambia, some of whom have lived in the southern African...