Updated - Zambian President Mwanawasa has died
Update: Zambian government denies rumours of Mwanawasa death.
Via Reuters:
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa died in a Paris hospital on Thursday after suffering a stroke earlier this week, South Africa’s Talk Radio 702 reported.
The radio quoted a Zambian High Commission spokesman as saying that Mwanawasa died earlier on Thursday morning. Mwanawasa was taken to hospital in Egypt just before an African Union summit on Monday and Tuesday and then transferred to Paris.
Contact details for the Zambian embassy are in this post here if you’d like to send condolence messages. Thanks for the alert mouce.
July 3rd, 2008 14:05
According to a later Reuters Africa update, President Mwanawasa has not died, the previous reports were false, and the President had a satisfactory night at the Percy military hospital in France.
Amazing!!!!?
July 4th, 2008 13:57
This is a very strange story to say someone has died and especially the very person that has recognised the problems in Zim, makes you think doesn’t it ???Hope he is being safe guarded.
July 6th, 2008 12:45
Mwanawasa can not die before problems in Zimbabwe are solved.He’s great.
July 8th, 2008 16:34
ha ha ha that was a funny piece of crap. i am a training journalist and was looking foward to write his history not that i wanted him dead
July 15th, 2008 21:45
if its true that zambian president is dead,my
condolences to the zambian pipo.and to the family of the late,may his soul rest in peace