Levy Patrick Mwanawasa

With his main rival Michael Sata in emergency care in South Africa Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa is firmly in charge of his country...

President Levy Mwanawasa chairs the 14-member Southern African Development Community and on 26 April the United States Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer urged him to work for a quick fix on Zimbabwe...

First to act was the Zambian President SADC Chairman Levy Mwanawasa who requested SADC member governments to bar the An Yue Jiang from off-loading...

Member governments and the Chairman of the Southern African Development Community Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa have two big concerns: that the vote rigging by President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front will be so crass that the SADC observers will be unable to give the elections a pass mark; and secondly that electoral disputes will spark violent clashes with the opposition across the country which will further weaken Zimbabwe's economy drive more migrants into neighbouring states and perhaps spark regional instability...

Zambia's first lady Maureen Kakubo Mwanawasa is seen as the power behind the throne of President Levy Mwanawasa and many believe that he wants a third term in five years' time - via his wife whose new nickname is Hillary Clinton...

The Chembe Bridge – now renamed after Zambia’s late President Levy Mwanawasa – was opened by acting President Rupiah Bwezani Banda...

Sata's star has been rising again since the death of President Levy Mwanawasa so his threats are no longer academic...

The situation worsened on 7 March when President Levy Mwanawasa blacklisted over 40 local companies from state tenders on the grounds of corruption...

President Levy Mwanawasa claims credit for the reopening of mines which had closed under his predecessor Frederick Chiluba and has hinted that South Africa's giant Anglo American Corporation (AAC) which pulled out of KCM in 2002 is planning a comeback...

The African absentees were President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia (domestic considerations perhaps also embarrassment about his row with Ghana over 48 dead fishermen or even his blatant persecution of the media) and Zambia's Levy Mwanawasa who is reportedly unwell...