Daily Archives: January 15, 2015

Lungu shocks UPND

The United Party for National Development says it is shocked and alarmed by PF president Edgar Lungu’s physical threats against the UPND during his recent rally in Kapiri Mposhi. UPND Campaign Manager Dipak Patel says Mr Lungu sent confusing messages to his supporters during the rally. Mr Patel says as Minister of Defence and Minister of Justice, Mr Lungu’s claims ...

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EL a doubt for presidential debate

Patriotic Front (PF) President Edgar Lungu’s availability for this evening’s Live Muvi TV presidential debate is in doubt. PF Secretary General Davis Chama says he is unable to confirm availability of Mr Lungu at the debate owing to the fact that he still has a busy campaign schedule. Mr. Chama has told QFM News that that it is unfortunate that ...

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Tupac Recalls Being “In The Midst Of War” During Interview Weeks Before His Death

Tupac speaks on being humbled while in jail and being labeled one-sided, in a previously unreleased interview. Nearly two decades after it was recorded, JMix/Jessesurratt Productions have released a previously unheard interview with Tupac Shakur and actor Jim Belushi on the set of their film, Gang Related. During the interview, which lasts a little over 20 minutes and was reportedly ...

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Lubambo Musonda takes jersey number 11

Young midfielder Lubambo Musonda will wear the number eleven jersey at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations. The jersey was previously won by current Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) president Kalusha Bwalya and 2012 Africa Cup of Nations winning captain Christopher Katongo. Ronald Kampamba will wear jersey number nine while Mukuka Mulenga has taken jersey number ten. Here below is ...

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Pope in Asia: Philippines awaits papal arrival

Pope Francis is heading to the Philippines for a five-day visit keenly awaited by the nation’s 80 million Roman Catholics. The highlight will be a huge open air Mass in the capital, Manila, on Sunday. Other engagements include a visit to Tacloban to meet survivors of a devastating typhoon in November 2013. Security will be tight after failed attempts to ...

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Charlie Hebdo attacks: Hollande says magazine ‘reborn’

French President Francois Hollande has insisted Charlie Hebdo and its values will survive, after the new edition of the satirical weekly sold out in hours. “Charlie Hebdo is alive and will live on,” Mr Hollande said. Millions more copies of the magazine are being printed because of demand. It comes a week after Islamist gunmen murdered 12 people at its ...

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Afcon Group B Preview: Tunisia face striker crisis

With Fakhreddine Ben Youssef and Saber Khalifa forced to pull out through injury, Edam Rjaibi and Ahmed Akaichi have been handed late call-ups Champions 11 years ago, Tunisia’s Africa Cup of Nations 2015 preparations have been hit by a last-minute striker shortage. Edam Rjaibi and Ahmed Akaichi have been called up as replacements for the injured Fakhreddine Ben Youssef and ...

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2015 Nations Cup: Eq Guinea president buys tickets for fans

Equatorial Guinea president Teodoro Obiang Nguema has paid for 40,000 tickets for fans to attend the Africa Cup of Nations in his country. The nation replaced Morocco as hosts only in December and there are concerns the games will be very poorly-attended. “We must give solemnity to this event, we have to buy tickets to fill stadiums,” said Nguema. “Let ...

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Levels of excitement by UPND disturbing – FDD

The Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) says it finds the level of excitement by the United Party for National Development (UPND) ahead of the forthcoming presidential election as immature and disturbing. FDD Spokesperson Antonio Mwanza says if the UPND think they have already won the election, they should find a mature way of celebrating and not through provocative ways ...

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