Zambia: Death of President Mwanawasa (pub. Aug. 29, 2008)
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On Aug. 19 Zambian state-owned television services announced that the country's president, Levy Mwanawasa, had died in a hospital in Paris, aged 59, two months after suffering a stroke during an African Union (AU) conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.



