Zambia: Live-Blogging a Groundbreaking HIV Discrimination Case

Global Voices 6 months ago Region: Zambia

Priti Patel, project lawyer (HIV/Aids) for the Southern Africa Litigation Centre is in Livingstone, Zambia to live-blog a groundbreaking HIV discrimination case in the country. The case, Kingaipe and Another v Attorney-General, involves two former Zambian Air Force (ZAF) employees, Stainley Kingaipe and Charles Chookole, who were allegedly subjected to mandatory testing for HIV without their knowledge and dismissed du... more

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Making the Change

Fishani Zimba 6 months ago Region: Zambia

      On 18th October 2008, I was invited to go and speak at a youth seminar in Lusaka, Zambia. The age group of the youths to attend the seminar was between seventeen and thirty. I got a letter of invitation a month before the seminar. After carefully analyzing the invitation I humbly turned down the request to speak at the seminar because I was not very comfortable with the topic which I was ... more

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Zambian Election to Be Challenged in Court

Finding Dulcinea a year ago Region: Zambia

The Patriotic Front in Zambia is planning to ask for a recount following last week's close election.   Narrow Election Raises Fraud Allegations Michael Sata, who lost last week’s presidential election in Zambia to Acting President Rupiah Banda, is going to court, according to Reuters. Sata received 38 percent of the votes, while Banda received 40 percent, Reuters reported. Of the nearly 1.8 mill... more

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Young People, Sex and Money Politics in Zambia

Chief K.Masimba Biriwasha a year ago Region: Zambia

Young men and women in Zambia are under pressure to engage in multiple sexual relationships due to prevailing attitudes about masculinity and for economic benefits, according to a study recently published in the African Journal of AIDS Research . The report claims that young men are likely to engage in high-risk sexual behaviour because that is the way men are expected to behave, with the majority of younger men belie... more

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Water Contamination Scare in Zambia

Can Tran a year ago Region: Zambia

According to the officials from Mufulira, upon visiting the site, they claim that the acidic effluents from Mopani Copper Mines entered the water supply by accident on Wednesday. According to BBC, police have been deployed in case of riots. Boyd Kaimbi Chibale with BBC also explains that the atmosphere in Mufulira is volatire after a similar incident took place in Chingola in 2006. Chingola is near Mufulira. Th... more

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