The Zambian cabinet is "split" over whether to introduce legislation that would force presidential candidates to have an HIV test before general elections this year, government sources said yesterday.

Zambian President Fredrick Chiluba said on Wednesday that international election observers were welcome to monitor the country's upcoming general elections, but warned that they should not interfere. Chiluba has yet to announce an election date.

Zambians are asking how President Frederick Chiluba, a leader with a taste for Rolex watches and gold jewellery, failed to notice the theft of his entire government salary for more than a year.

There is little to celebrate in Zambia, where after 37 years of independence from British colonial rule, debt, corruption, crime, disease and poverty reign.

The policy of cost sharing in education is severely hurting the poor, a major study conducted by OXFAM-Zambia and the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) has revealed.

Renewed fighting in eastern Angola has sent thousands of refugees fleeing across the border into neighbouring Zambia, the UN's refugee agency has announced.

PRESIDENT Frederick Chiluba is living on stolen public funds, opposition UPND president Anderson Mazoka has charged.

The privatisation of mines in Zambia were fraught with corruption, the Global Corruption Report 2001 has revealed.

About 1,000 of the 2,200 teachers trained annually in Zambia are dying of AIDS related complications each year, according to a report issued Wednesday, Agence France-Presse reports.

Zambia's Vice President Enoch Kavindele said on Monday that opposition Forum for Democratic Development (FDD)presidential candidate Christon Tembo would not be allowed to stand in the election because his parents were from Malawi.

Salary : equivalent to £13,200 per annum
Location : Lusaka, Zambia
Closing Date : 26 Oct 2001
Posted on : 1 Oct 2001

Zambia faces a refugee crisis as tens of thousands of people who escaped war
in neighbouring countries continue to stay there without proper identification.

Amnesty International has intensified calls for the Zambian government to abolish the death penalty in conformity with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and join the 105 countries that have done away with inhuman punishment.

The cereal deficit Zambia has been experiencing threatens household food security, the acting director of Programme Against Malnutrition (PAM), Helen Samatebele, was quoted as saying by the 'Post' newspaper on Monday.

Transparency International-Zambia (TIZ) executive director Christine Munalula has asked President Frederick Chiluba to do away with his discretionary fund in order to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of other government institutions.

Zambia has a number of outstanding electoral issues, which have been raised by the election monitors and opposition political parties in every election since the 1991 “founding” elections. These issues impede opposition political parties in particular to mount effective political campaigns. The EISA's update focuses on the readiness of stakeholders and political parties to take part in the 2001 Zambian election.

The Zambian film industry is struggling to find itself, after Touch of the Sun, one of the country's first local productions, was a flop.

Political parties have called for the introduction of an integrity code of ethics and conduct for political parties and their leaders and candidates to promote clean politics.

The start of criminal proceedings against two Zambian journalists and two political figures on charges of defaming President Frederick Chiluba has triggered off a heated debate on the role of the media in societies undergoing transition.

This feature in Zambia's Daily Mail covers the work done by the Evergreen Dairy Goats Project in rural Kanakantapa.