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2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup: fixtures, groups and UK TV coverage

This summer’s Fifa Women’s World Cup will be broadcast live in the UK on the BBC and ITV. All 64 matches from the tournament will be on free-to-air terrestrial TV with both broadcasters showing the final.

The Week

Watch as Rangers star Fashion Sakala forces Serge Aurier to score bizarre own goal on international duty

Fashion Sakala has linked up with his Zambian teammates in a bid to qualify for the 2023 African Cup of Nations.

Glasgow Live

Missiles greet African peace mission visit in Ukraine

The leaders of South Africa, Senegal, Zambia, the Comoros and Egypt have met Ukrainian defence ministry representatives in the capital Kyiv.

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Zambia Women's World Cup 2023 squad: Preliminary team announced

Bruce Mwape picked 35 players for Zambia's preliminary World Cup squad

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Sampa the Great taps into music of her African childhood on new album

The Zambia-born artist is currently in the midst of a North American tour, promoting her second full-length album, ‘As Above, So Below.’

Chicago Sun-Times

In Zambia, an all-female farm nurtures the climate leaders of the future

Women and girls have a critical role to play in the fight against climate change. We meet Naomi, a young farmer in northern Zambia who is leading the way

Evening Standard

Vulture surveillance system alerts Zambian park to poisonings

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Belfast medical students set to support women and children on the frontline in Zambia

The trio will be travelling to Africa for four weeks in June as part of their journey towards becoming doctors.

Belfast Live

Ireland line up final World Cup warm-up fixture, Zambia and France ticket details announced

Vera Pauw was determined to land one more friendly game - this one staged in Brisbane - ahead of Ireland's maiden World Cup campaign.

Irish Mirror

'Clock has hit midnight': China loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse

A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China

The Independent UK

Zambia asks France to use 'influence' to speed up debt restructuring

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has asked French President Emmanuel Macron to use his global influence to help move forward a long-delayed restructuring of Zambia’s foreign debt, after its default in 2020.

Radio France Internationale

Vera Pauw explains the increase in ticket prices for Ireland's World Cup-bound side

The price of a season ticket for Ireland's five home games this year - including the World Cup warm-ups against Zambia and France - is up by around 60 percent from last year

Irish Mirror

Ruth Weiss, journalist who fought apartheid, finally honoured in South Africa

A prophet has no honour in their homeland, goes the biblical adage. But of the many places that journalist, author and activist Ruth Weiss has lived – Germany (where she was born), South Africa, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Britain, Zambia and Denmark – which is her home? On 28 April,…

The Conversation

Soccer-Thirty years on, Zambia mourns national team killed in plane crash

Zambian football will on Friday commemorate the 30th anniversary of the plane crash that wiped out almost of all the national team, mourning the loss of a golden generation that players say inspired the nation to later victories.

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Daily Mirror

'We're 81-year-old best friends and we're on a mission to travel the world together'

Sandy Hazelip and Ellie Hamby, from Texas visited Peru, Chile, Argentina, Antarctica, England, Spain, Italy, Finland, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Nepal, Japan and Australia

Reuters

Zambians struggle with cost of living as debt rework drags on

The Comesa market in Zambia's capital Lusaka appears to be bustling, but traders say business is suffering as a weak local currency pushes up prices, adding to the hardships of a population already struggling with soaring living costs.

The Conversation

Debt dangers in Africa: how defaults hurt people, and why forgiveness isn’t the answer

Public debt repayments in some African countries are at their highest levels since 1998. The Conversation Africa’s founding editor Caroline Southey talks to dean and economics professor Philippe Burger about the danger of debt problems some African countries face.

Financial Times

How China changed the game for countries in default

The fragile process for dealing with insolvent economies is now at risk of unravelling completely owing to a powerful and unpredictable force in sovereign debt

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Los Angeles Times

A once reluctant Harris embraces her biracial identity in Africa

LUSAKA, Zambia — Crowds of locals packed onto balconies and cheered as Vice President Kamala Harris' motorcade pulled onto a manicured, palm-tree lined driveway, near where she had visited her grandfather in the late 1960s. But something wasn't quite right.

The Conversation

Kamala Harris's visit underscores the tricky choices Zambia is making about international allies

US vice-president Kamala Harris’s recent visit to Zambia is an example the country’s increased engagement with western nations. It gave fresh impetus to the view that Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema is strongly aligning the country to the west.

The Conversation

Foreign exchange: several African countries have a shortage of US dollars - why this happens and how to fix it

A number of African countries, including Kenya, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana and Zambia, are currently experiencing shortages of US dollars. The dollar is the dominant currency in international transactions. These countries rely on the US currency to pay for foreign debts, essential goods and industrial inputs. Development economist Christopher Adam…

The Independent UK

Harris visits site of grandfather's old home in Zambia

Vice President Kamala Harris paused Friday during a whirlwind diplomatic swing through Africa for something much more personal: A visit to the site of her maternal grandfather’s home in Lusaka, where he lived as an Indian public servant in the 1960s

Radio France Internationale

China's global influence looms over Kamala Harris trip to Africa

When US Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Zambia on Friday for the final stop of her week-long trip across Africa, she touched down at an airport that’s doubled in size and features glittering new terminals.

The Independent UK

China's global influence looms over Harris trip to Africa

The global rivalry between the United States and China has been a recurring backdrop during Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to Africa

Daily Record

Fashion Sakala in stern Zambia warning as Rangers star told to prepare for more criticism from fans who 'own him'

The forward is back with his club after a difficult international break.

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