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*'''2008 Aug 19''' - President [[Levy Mwanawasa]] (b.1948) dies in France. He had been hospitalized at a French military hospital since suffering a stroke in June.
*'''2008 Aug 19''' - President [[Levy Mwanawasa]] (b.1948) dies in France. He had been hospitalized at a French military hospital since suffering a stroke in June.
*'''2008 Oct 30''' - Zambia votes for a successor to the late President [[Levy Mwanawasa]] in an election the main opposition leader, [[Michael Sata]], accused the ruling party of rigging. Sata was ahead in early presidential election results, but his lead was slowly narrowed. [[Rupiah Banda]] won 40% of the vote and opposition leader Michael Sata secured 38%.  
*'''2008 Oct 30''' - Zambia votes for a successor to the late President [[Levy Mwanawasa]] in an election the main opposition leader, [[Michael Sata]], accused the ruling party of rigging. Sata was ahead in early presidential election results, but his lead was slowly narrowed. [[Rupiah Banda]] won 40% of the vote and opposition leader Michael Sata secured 38%.  
*'''2008 Nov 2''' - Veteran diplomat [[Rupiah Banda]] (72) is sworn in as the new president of Zambia following a narrow and disputed victory over a populist rival in an election necessitated by the death of the country's former leader, [[Levy Mwanawasa]].
*'''2009 Jul 20''' - Zambia's Catholic bishops and the International Press Institute condemned the arrest on obscenity charges of a newspaper editor who says she was trying to draw attention to the consequences of a health workers' strike. [[Chansa Kabwela]], editor of the independent [[The Post|Post], was arrested last week after e-mailing pictures of a woman giving birth in the streets to policy makers and aid groups.


2008        Nov 2, Veteran diplomat Rupiah Banda (72) was sworn in as the new president of Zambia following a narrow and disputed victory over a populist rival in an election forced by the death of the country's former leader.
    (AP, 11/2/08)
2008        Nov 17, The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said a ton of ivory items and 57 suspects were netted in a four-month operation billed Africa's largest-ever crackdown on wildlife crime. Operation Baba also seized cheetah, leopard, serval cat and python skins as well as hippo teeth at several markets, airports and border crossings in Congo Brazzaville, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia.
    (AFP, 11/17/08)
2009        Mar 27, Southern African countries (Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia) have been hit by the worst floods in years, killing more than 100 people and displacing thousands, as a tropical storm threatened to bring more pain.
    (AFP, 3/28/09)
2009        Apr 6, In Zambia western nations and lending agencies meeting in Lusaka agreed a financing package of more than $1 billion to improve infrastructure in southern and central Africa at an investment conference meant to expand transport links and trade. Britain said it would separately provide 100 million pounds ($149.2 million) to transform the region's infrastructure to increase trade and mitigate the effects of the global financial crisis. New projects will link businesses in 8 African countries: Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa.
    (AP, 4/6/09)
2009        May 28, It was reported that scientists have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus. The so-called "Lujo" virus infected five people in Zambia and South Africa last fall. Four of them died, but a fifth survived, perhaps helped by a medicine recommended by the scientists.
    (AP, 5/28/09)
2009        Jul 20, Zambia's Catholic bishops and the International Press Institute condemned the arrest on obscenity charges of a newspaper editor who says she was trying to draw attention to the consequences of a health workers' strike. Chansa Kabwela, editor of the independent Post, was arrested last week after e-mailing pictures of a woman giving birth in the streets to policy makers and aid groups.
    (AP, 7/20/09)


2009        Aug 17, Former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba (1991-2001) was cleared of corruption charges following a six-year trial after a magistrate ruled that $500,000 of allegedly embezzled funds could not be traced to government money.
2009        Aug 17, Former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba (1991-2001) was cleared of corruption charges following a six-year trial after a magistrate ruled that $500,000 of allegedly embezzled funds could not be traced to government money.
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2010        Oct 17, Zambian police said managers at a Chinese-run coal mine who shot at workers protesting poor working conditions will be charged with attempted murder. 12 workers at Collum Coal Mine in the southern town of Sinazongwe were injured a day earlier when mainly Chinese managers fired randomly at the protesting workers.
2010        Oct 17, Zambian police said managers at a Chinese-run coal mine who shot at workers protesting poor working conditions will be charged with attempted murder. 12 workers at Collum Coal Mine in the southern town of Sinazongwe were injured a day earlier when mainly Chinese managers fired randomly at the protesting workers.
     (AFP, 10/17/10)
     (AFP, 10/17/10)
===2011 - 2020===


2011        Jan 4, Zambian prosecutors applied for arrest warrants after the mining officials Xiao Li Shan and Wu Jiu Hua failed to attend the preliminary hearing regarding the Oct 15 shooting of nearly a dozen miners at a Chinese-run coal mine.
2011        Jan 4, Zambian prosecutors applied for arrest warrants after the mining officials Xiao Li Shan and Wu Jiu Hua failed to attend the preliminary hearing regarding the Oct 15 shooting of nearly a dozen miners at a Chinese-run coal mine.
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2015        Apr 20, Zambia slashed by more than half a controversial mineral royalty tax after investors threatened to pull out of the copper-rich country.
2015        Apr 20, Zambia slashed by more than half a controversial mineral royalty tax after investors threatened to pull out of the copper-rich country.
     (AFP, 4/20/15)
     (AFP, 4/20/15)


#'''16 July 2015''': [[Edgar Lungu]] commutes the death sentences of 332 prisoners to life in prison and condemned the massive overcrowding at the [[Mukobeko Prison]], calling it "an affront to basic human dignity".
#'''16 July 2015''': [[Edgar Lungu]] commutes the death sentences of 332 prisoners to life in prison and condemned the massive overcrowding at the [[Mukobeko Prison]], calling it "an affront to basic human dignity".
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