News: #Zambia arrests 30 #Ethiopian nationals for illegal entry in Eastern Province
Zambian authorities have arrested 30 Ethiopian nationals for illegal entry into the country after intercepting a vehicle in Nyimba District of Eastern Province, Lusaka Times reported, citing police.
According to Eastern Province Police Commanding Officer Robertson Mweemba, the arrests were made at around 11:00 p.m. during an ambush operation in Nyimba District. The Ethiopian nationals were found traveling in an Altaf Ambulance driven by a Chipata-based driver, identified as Boyd Phiri, 40.
Police said the ambulance, bearing registration number BAT 3037, belongs to Altaf Private Hospital in Chipata District. The driver was accompanied by a co-driver, Siyamukenge Chikema, 45.
Mr. Mweemba said preliminary investigations indicate that the two drivers picked up the Ethiopian nationals from multiple ....
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Victoria Falls, located on the border of two countries - Zimbabwe and Zambia, is one of the largest in the world and is quite a breathtaking sight. 💦
Tourists from all over the world come to see it, and the bravest ones climb to the top to swim in the "Devil's Pool" - pools right on the edge of the 128-meter waterfall.
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Witch — Kuomboka (Invisible City, 2014)
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Kuomboka — последний до почти сорокалетнего перерыва альбом группы Witch из Замбии, выпущенный в 1984 году. Несмотря на то, что до этого Witch играли преимущественно психоделический рок, на этом альбоме они переключились на диско-буги, а также занялись исследованием своих замбийских корней, что отразилось в ритмах и даже в названии альбома. Альбом был переиздан в 2014 году на лейбле InvisibleCity Editions.
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💬Maria Zakharova: OnDecember 17 inMaputo (#Mozambique) and December 18 inLusaka (#Zambia), official ceremonies marking the delivery of Russian food assistance were held, attended by the Russian Ambassadors to these countries.
🇲🇿 Mozambique received 70 tonnes of vitamin-fortified sunflower oil for those in need.
🇿🇲 Zambia received a similar shipment of 93 tonnes, as well as 648 tonnes of yellow split peas.
These humanitarian deliveries were carried out through the UN World Food Programme, funded by Russia’s voluntary contribution for African countries, which amounts to USD 10 million annually.
Humanitarian assistance is an integral part of Russia’s support for its partners on the African continent, primarily aimed at helping the most vulnerable groups.
🇷🇺 Russia will continue to contribute to addressing Africa’s socio-economic challenges, using both bilateral assistance mechanisms and the potential of relevant international organizations.
(Excerpt from Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's weekly briefing on December 26)
Solar energy can reduce energy deficit in Zambia
The AREA delegation, headed by the executive secretary of the board by Andrei Gromov, held a number of working meetings in Zambia.
In the Zambian city of Lusaka, representatives of the Association, together with local partners, organized a discussion of already worked out and requiring technical examination and financing of projects, and also discussed a number of strategic issues in the state energy company Zesco and the Ministry of Energy.
Over the past few years, due to droughtin Zambia, the largest hydroelectric power station on the Border Lake Kariba, which previously provided a significant fraction of energy, works only at 10-20% of the capacity and is in the process of updating. Because of this, not only Zambia itself, but also the neighboring Zimbabwe, faces the crisis.
The authorities are trying to solve the problem: among other things, a special working group in energy has been created under the president, the government is introducing measures to diversify the generation sources.
However, these measures may not be enough, since the country's authorities intend to actively develop production, including in the agricultural sector. This requires a multiple increase in energy can, and part of the electricity, the country exports to neighboring countries, including the DRC, which also has plans for a significant increase in industrial energy consumption.
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#Zambia and #Zimbabwe back away from ‘Prescriptive’ #US health deals
The government of Zambia acknowledged this week that it is unhappy with part of a proposed health aid deal with the #United_States that “does not align with the country’s interests”.
The Zambia-US bilateral deal was due to be signed last December, but it faltered after the US linked the billion-dollar deal to access to Zambian minerals, particularly copper and cobalt.
Just four days before the Memorandum of Understanding (#MOU) was due to be signed, the US announced that two countries had committed to a plan to unlock “a substantial grant package of US support in exchange for collaboration in the mining sector and clear business sector reforms that will drive economic growth and commercial investment that benefit both the United States & Zambia”.
“We want to leverage US assistance to bring about reforms that will.....
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She spoke of her father’s “defensive racism”, which prompted him to throw a predatory white landlord down the stairs. She spoke of her mother’s insistence on integrating every new movie theatre in town.
She spoke of how when her “pitch-black” great-grandmother had first set eyes on Morrison and her sister, she said the girls had “been tampered with”, which was meant racially:
“We were not pure and she was.”
The dynamics of my mixed-race family didn’t match the norms, either. My black Zambian grandmother, for whom I’m named, initially disapproved of my mother’s decision to marry a white man; my mother’s older sister refused to attend the wedding.
Our moves to the UK and then to the US when I was a kid – with a year back in Zambia when I was a teenager – were punctuated by moments of racial absurdity:
“What are you? Black or white?” (As if I had a choice!) Yet even now, at my grown age, my first response to racism is surprise.
Despite our respective births in disparate times and places (Lorain, Ohio, in 1931; Lusaka, Zambia, in 1980), I think Morrison and I both lucked into the strange privilege of zooming out from or boomeranging around race.
This perhaps explains why neither of us tends to capitalise the word black when referring to people in writing. It concedes too much; it protests too much.
Morrison temperamentally disliked being pigeonholed. She was willing to accept “the labels” of race and gender only because, as she put it in a profile in the New Yorker, “being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it.”
She often complained that literary criticism was unequipped to read black writing, which gets read as merely representative, in both the tokenistic and identitarian senses:
“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form,” she said.
Indeed, the ultimate source of Morrison’s renowned difficulty was not, I would submit, her prickly personality, her intersectional identity, or even her sometimes contrarian politics.
It was her commitment to reflecting the range and depth of black aesthetics – as epitomised by jazz, which she called “very complicated, very sophisticated, and very difficult” – in her own writing.
Her close friend, the writer Fran Lebowitz, said upon Morrison’s passing in 2019: “I know it sounds like a crazy thing to say, but I always thought Toni’s writing was underappreciated.
Because people always looked at it through the prism of her being black and being a woman. But Toni was a very experimental writer. There were a lot of things Toni did through her writing that just went unremarked upon.”
Many still dismiss Morrison’s stature as either undeserved or obvious, as if surely so much praise either begs the question or settles it.
They justify their disinclination to engage with the art itself by gesturing to what we might call her DEI-fication or her Oprah‑priation, as if Toni Morrison became Toni Morrison through some kind of literary affirmative action plan.
Morrison incensed all kinds of people. How dare she be a difficult writer and a black woman? How dare she refuse to placate or translate? How dare she demand to be taken seriously?
How dare she be a black artist with real ideas? How dare she ask that we actually read her writing, and on its own terms?
It could not have been easy to be Toni Morrison. Yet I aspire to it. I yearn for that freedom she so beautifully embodied: to feel at ease to be difficult.
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How Did Toni Morrison Become Our National Archetype?
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There are many ways to be difficult in this world. You can be demanding, inconvenient, stubborn, complicated, troublesome, baffling, illegible.
Black womanhood is one place where all these forms of difficulty overlap. I feel like I have always known this; I have been called difficult more times in my life than I can count.
But I only began to understand – to discover the meanings and uses of – my own difficulty because of Toni Morrison.
Morrison has shaped the way we think about everything from literature to politics, criticism to ethics, to the responsibilities of making art.
In 1993 she became the only black woman ever to win the Nobel prize in literature. But the facts remain: she is difficult to read. She is difficult to teach.
Notwithstanding the voluminous train of profiles, reviews and scholarly analysis that she drags behind her, she is difficult to write about.
More to the point, she is our only truly canonical black female writer – and her work is highly complex.
In a 1981 Vogue profile, Morrison spoke of a reader who had “told her how difficult it was to understand black culture in her books – it was so removed from his experience”.
She had responded: “Boy, you must have had a hell of a time with Beowulf!” The Vogue interviewer, missing the wit in this retort, commented:
“Morrison has no patience with people who plead ignorance; but then, she does not pride herself on being a patient woman. ‘I find myself being more and more difficult,’ she says. ‘It’s something I really relish.’”
Morrison’s literary difficulty was often translated this way into a personal difficulty, a moral failing: How dare she be impatient! Well, wouldn’t you be?
One reason for Morrison’s air of pique was surely the strain of trying to balance the demands of multiple careers simultaneously. She was an editor, a professor, a writer, a critic and a public intellectual.
I have worked in these fields as well, so I know that extending many branches can be a way of distracting yourself from the core vocation.
The commitment to writing over all else is often viewed as selfish; when gender is factored into the equation, the charge can carry the stigma of illegitimacy.
“For a woman to say, ‘I am a writer’ is difficult,” Morrison noted succinctly.
Morrison’s childhood stories read like photo negatives of the standard American race narratives.
She struggled to accommodate these forms of often underpaid literary labour with the unpaid domestic labour of raising two sons as a single mother:
“It was very difficult writing and rearing children because they deserve all your time, and you don’t have it.”
This occupational difficulty was exacerbated not only by the fact that she was unique in her fields but also by the fact that she often wilfully chose to go it alone.
For example, she didn’t tell anyone at her first job in trade publishing that she was writing a novel until The Bluest Eye came out at another house.
As troublesome as difficulty may have been for her professionally, Morrison genuinely delighted in the difficulty of other black women artists, such as the novelist Gayl Jones, whose works she edited and published, and the jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams.
For Morrison, the fact that they were considered difficult was a sign that they had insisted on their art being taken seriously.
To read Morrison herself with the seriousness that she deserves requires that we account for the knot – or bind – of gender and race she shared with them. It is not an easy one to untangle.
As Morrison wrote in a 1971 New York Times op-ed about feminism, “one must look very closely at the black woman herself – a difficult, inevitably doomed proposition, for if anything is true of black women, it is how consistently they have (deliberately, I suspect) defied classification”.
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USA vs. Portugal
Predicted outcome: USA❌
Predicted score: 3:2
Actual: Portugal 0:2
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Predicted outcome: Argentina✅
Predicted score: 2:0
Actual: Argentina 5:0
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Predicted outcome: Brazil✅
Predicted score: 2:1
Actual: Brazil 3:1
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Mexico vs. Belgium
Predicted outcome: Belgium❌
Predicted score: 1:3
Actual: Draw 1:1
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When Africa Said No: Zimbabwe and Zambia Reject the “America First” Health Strategy — And Why Ethiopia’s History with U.S. Aid Made It Blind
By Alexander Yohannes | On Medium
Early February 2026: two African nations did what once seemed unthinkable.
First Zambia. Then Zimbabwe.
Both rejected major U.S. health aid packages—not because they didn’t need funding, but because the cost was sovereignty. The agreements reportedly included long-term access to strategic data and biological resources under Washington’s “America First” framework.
These were not quiet diplomatic gestures. They were public, strategic refusals.
For Ethiopia, however, the moment raises an uncomfortable question.
On December 23, 2025, Addis Ababa signed a $1.466 billion agreement under the same strategy. Why did others walk away while Ethiopia said yes?
The answer lies deep in our modern history—Cold War alignment, famine-era dependency, structural adjustment, and decades of institutional reliance on U.S. aid. Over time, survival partnerships can reshape national instincts.
Sovereignty begins to feel negotiable when funding gaps feel existential.
Zambia and Zimbabwe drew a line.
Did Ethiopia?
Read the full analysis on Medium:
https://medium.com/@alexanderyohannes135/when-africa-said-no-zimbabwe-and-zambia-reject-the-america-first-health-strategy-and-why-f7ffdd0b76fa
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🚀 Stablecoin FX Pricing Tightens in Emerging Markets by March
According to NS3.AI, Borderless reported that 14 out of 21 monitored blockchain-based currencies were within 100 basis points of interbank rates by March, indicating tighter stablecoin foreign exchange pricing in emerging markets. In Latin America, stablecoin FX traded approximately 22 basis points from interbank rates throughout the quarter, while execution costs in Brazil reached zero basis points across various providers. In East Africa, pricing gaps narrowed significantly, although Zambia and Malawi continued to experience wide fluctuations in less liquid markets.
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