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The newly appointed Minister of Finance ​of Zambia Situmbeko Musokotwane says that he has begun to negotiate with the International Monetary Fund on a $12 billion external debt. Musokotwane says that he is also working with other private funds to which Zambia owes payments. Musokotwane anticipates that Zambia "will not be able to immediately cancel all debts".
2021-08-27

Zambia receives a shipment of 119,200 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United Kingdom through the COVAX initiative.
2021-08-13

Two supporters of the Zambian political-leading party Patriotic Front are stabbed to death by supporters of the opposition party National Development in the capital Lusaka, amid an increasing tension over the imminent elections. Four people are arrested.
2021-07-30

Pakistan lifts a moratorium on the death penalty for terrorism, months after reinstating it.
2015-03-10

Zambian media reports that President Michael Sata has died while receiving medical care in London.
2014-10-28

The jury in the U.S. state of Arizona that convicted Jodi Arias of first-degree murder last week quickly decide that she should either face the death penalty or life in prison without parole during the penalty phase of trial.
2013-05-15

A Ugandan lawmaker who propose the Anti-Homosexuality Bill scraps the proposed death penalty clause.
2012-02-10

Zambia investigates an incident in which managers at a Chinese-run mine allegedly shot and wounded at least 11 miners who had objected to their working conditions.
2010-10-16

Recently resigned Zambian Defence Minister George Mpombo, a critic of President Rupiah Banda, is imprisoned for 60 days due to a bounced cheque.
2010-08-9