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The National Olympic Committee of Zambia (IOC code: ZAM) is the National Olympic Committee representing Zambia. It was created in 1951 as the National Olympic Committee of Northern Rhodesia and recognised by the IOC in 1963. [1] Zambia made its debut at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Previously, it competed as Northern Rhodesia in ...
Health and environment COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 pandemic in Europe COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster announces a "circuit breaker" lockdown in Northern Ireland effective October 16. Pubs and restaurants will have to shut down for four weeks unless they offer a takeaway service, and schools will close for two weeks until ...
Disasters and accidents 2020 Beirut explosion The state -run National News Agency says that Lebanon's state prosecution has asked Interpol to detain two Russian citizens, the captain and owner of the MV Rhosus, a ship that carried thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate to Beirut in 2013. (Reuters via U.S. News) Eight people are killed and ten others are injured as a series of wildfires sweeps ...
Zambian exports in 2006. Zambia is a developing country, and it achieved middle-income status in 2011.Through the first decade of the 21st century, the economy of Zambia was one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa, and its capital, Lusaka, the fastest-growing city in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). [18]
In October 2014, KLM stopped operating the flight in favour of offering codeshare flights operated by Kenya Airways from Nairobi. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In 2015, the government of Zambia began a three-year, US$360 million expansion and improvement of the airport, with funds borrowed from the Exim Bank of China . [ 14 ]
Indo-Zambia Bank Limited: Financials Banks Lusaka: 1984 Commercial bank: P A Intermarket Bank: Financials Banks Lusaka: 1971 [5] Acquired by Afriland First Bank (Cameroon) in 2010 P D Investrust Bank: Financials Banks Lusaka: 1996 Commercial bank, Lusaka Stock Exchange:INVE P A Kansanshi Mining Plc [6] Basic Materials Mining Solwezi: 2005
It was expected to be completed in Mid-2020 [6] but was delayed by setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [7] On 5 August 2021, President Edgar Lungu commissioned the opening of the new airport, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] although it took about two more months for all operations to complete moving from the old airport to the new airport 15 kilometres ...
President Hakainde Hichilema announces an agreement with China to build Zambia's first manufacturing facility for cholera vaccines. [9] 10 October – The first case of mpox in Zambia is recorded in a 32-year old visitor from Tanzania. [10] 30 October – Eight miners are killed and another is reported missing following a copper mine collapse ...