Word: mwanawasa
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...take GM food. "If Americans can eat GM, Zambians should be able to eat GM," Vice President Enoch Kavindele told parliament in June. But within two months Zambia banned the import of all GMOS. The GM maize sitting in warehouses was illegal and "poisonous," according to President Levy Mwanawasa. Zambia sent a group of scientists to the U.S., Europe and South Africa to investigate the risks of GM food, and last month they recommended retaining the ban. The offending grain will be taken to neighboring Malawi, while Zambia will receive non-GM aid. The U.S. was furious. Says one State...
...poor and experiencing severe food shortages, but we aren't ready to expose our people to ill-defined risks." LEVY MWANAWASA, President of Zambia, refusing U.S. food aid because the grain is genetically modified...
...least 170 people have been found in mass graves. The rebels accused of the killings, the Congolese Rally for Democracy, deny the allegations, saying that only 39 people died after mutineers staged an uprising and that a few civilians were caught in crossfire. ZAMBIA Desperate Situation President Levy Mwanawasa appealed to the international community for help. With Zambia's current food crop capable of feeding less than two thirds of the population, he estimates that the country will run out of food by August. The U.N. warned that across southern Africa around 10 million people face starvation unless aid arrives...
...rule since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, have earned them three landslide election victories ? but also the ire of hard-liners, who have shut down around 50 liberal newspapers and jailed reformists on charges of "insulting" officials and Islam. Iran Special: The Islamic Republic in Transition ZAMBIA Election Doubts Levy Mwanawasa was sworn in as Zambia's new President despite serious concerns about the fairness of the election. The 10 parties opposed to Mwan-awasa's Movement for Multiparty Democracy alleged that ballot boxes had been stuffed and voters intimidated. Independent election monitors confirmed that they too had doubts about voting...