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Background: The territory of Northern Rhodesia was administered by the South Africa Company from 1891 until it was taken over by the UK in 1923. During the 1920s and 1930s, advances in mining spurred development and immigration. The name was changed to Zambia upon independence in 1964. In the 1980s and 1990s, declining copper prices and a prolonged drought hurt the economy. Elections in 1991 brought an end to one-party rule, but the subsequent vote in 1996 saw blatant harassment of opposition parties. The election in 2001 was marked by administrative problems with three parties filing a legal petition challenging the election of ruling party candidate Levy MWANAWASA. The new president launched a far-reaching anti-corruption campaign in 2002, which resulted in the prosecution of former President Frederick CHILUBA and many of his supporters in late 2003. Opposition parties currently hold a majority of seats in the National Assembly.

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By kristinogstig
March 29th 2006

Første dagene i Zambia

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RECOVERED

Norwegian translation is found underneath the english text. Ok, we have arrived in Afrika people! As of now everything is a little bit foggy from the long journey. We travelled well. No major delays hence not much to tell in that department. Luckily for us, Ingeborg came to collect us at Lusaka airport the minute we touched Zambian soil. She had brought a good friend and some other guy with whom she quarrelled with.... in some AFRICAN LANGUAGE!!! We understood exactly just about nothing, we did however get somewhat frightened. As it turned out, a trip to the airport by [View Full Entry]

By Rachel Maser
March 28th 2006

Living Positively in Zambia

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Learning how to do Aerobics!
This was priceless. Aerobics (and excercise) is a very new concept in this part of the world and everybody was giggling throughout the demo. After about 15 mins, there were desperate calls for "Wate... [more]

Last week I attended a conference about Positive Living for people openly living with AIDS and those working in the sector. The conference focuses on four areas: the mind, the body, the spirit and the environment. The mind track explored depression and AIDS, as well as the role drugs, stress and comedy. The body focused on Anti-Retroviral Therapy, exercise, traditional remedies, and sexual and gender based violence. In the spirit track, positive spirituality, sexuality, relationships and the creative arts were discussed. Finally in the environment track, stigma, discrimination, leadership [View Full Entry]

By Jo Whit
February 24th 2006

In A While Crocodile - 21st - 24th Feb 06

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The houseboat
Luxury (kind of!)

Transiting through Malawi on the way to Zambia, we made a stop at the capital Lilongwe then went on to the border post. Once in Zambia, we drove a couple of hours to Mama Rula's campsite. Rain clouds threatened the whole way and finally unleashed themselves right over our camping ground. Fortunately, the campsite owner was kind enough to let most people stay in the T.V room and we bagged the top of the truck. A good nights sleep was had before yet another early morning start in order to reach the houseboat, which was to be the highlight of our [View Full Entry]

By Grizzly Bear
February 22nd 2006

Lusaka & Africa Time...

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I was at the bus station at 8.30 all ready and waiting for the bus to depart at 9, like the timetable said it would. 9 came and went. As did 10. We finally set off at 10.45 headed for Lusaka the capital of Zambia, which in itself is classified as being 'Somewhere in Central Africa'. The first part of the journey I started to talk to a white Zambian who started to explain the problems black Zambians have. The jist of the conversation was that they are lazy and dont plan for the future. At first I put this down [View Full Entry]

By Rachel Maser
February 12th 2006

Off to Zambia!

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The Gang at Niagara Falls
Nine volunteers are heading overseas - 3 to Mali, 1 to Burkina Faso, 1 to the Philippines, 2 to Ghana, 1 to Zambia and I'm going to work in Malawi

Tonight I’m leaving for Zambia to volunteer as a development worker with Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB)! After two red-eye flights through London and Johannesburg, I’ll land in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. I will be partnered with an international non-governmental organization (NGO) called International Development Enterprises (IDE). IDE focuses on simple irrigation technology for smallholder farmers like the human-powered treadle pump (which looks like a stairmaster and pumps about 1 liter of water per second) and drip irrigation. Unlike other organizations that gi [View Full Entry]

By KoolguyTy
July 27th 2005

Pics

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Just a lil off the top....
Can't beat $0.40 for that professional look.

Yes yes y’all, Good newz, I’m in the capital city of Lusaka this afternoon and they actually have intenet access here without a phone wire going into the bback of the comp which means some pics are up, booyaa http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/KoolguyTy/ The past two weeks have been reminiscent of university as I’ve taken a couple of road trips. I hit a friends farm that is 15 km outside of town. We rode bikes like it was grade five and my bike fell apart faster than a… well… a Chinese bicycle. It was a one speeder with a broken seat, pedal, and crooked [View Full Entry]

By DavidDamberger
May 11th 2005

Journal Entry 5: Deported!

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A warm welcome
I wasn't exactly in the mood to take any photos during these days, but this is one of fellow EWB volunteer Mike and I pretending to sneak into Zim when he first arrived here. Ironic that I'd actually ... [more]

Although I’ve refrained from mentioning anything since I’ve arrived here over 3 months ago, I’ve been having a few problems getting the necessary full-time work permit that allows me to legally live and volunteer here in Zambia. See, in Zambia you are allowed to stay in the country as a volunteer for a total of 3 months for free. After that, you either need to get a work permit or leave the country. I applied for my work permit the first week I arrived here, however, due to various “administrative and technical problems” it “hasn’t been processed to da [View Full Entry]

By DavidDamberger
February 20th 2005

Journal Entry 1: My first week in Zambia

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Zambia 3
Good thing everybody has the proper eye protection

My journey begun not in Zambia, but in Canada for three intense weeks of preparation. One week in Vancouver for the Engineers Without Borders conference and two weeks in Toronto. During this time, I went through a mind expanding overseas development training course. Now, although I had already had taken courses in development studies in University, personally studied and taught development at the EWB Calgary chapter for 3 years, and went through a one week EWB course before my placement in India, this training took my level of understanding of development to a whole new level. I trained with 8 [View Full Entry]

By DMac
May 26th 2003

Pickpockets, nightclubbing and poverty

Africa » Zambia » Lusaka

After Livingstone we took a coach to Lusaka the capital. We checked into Chachacha backpackers in Lusaka after a day on the bus and they cooked us a great dinner. The next morning we walked into the town center to change some travellers checks and had many many problems since we didn't have the sales receipt on us - something that you never need in Asia, and we hadn't needed before. So we walked around very hungry for too long and then changed the small amount of US $ we had in our pockets so we could get breakfast, photos for [View Full Entry]

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