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Show Time - Every Saturday 9:00 am New York Time 15:00 Hrs Zambian Time 13:00 GMT To participate please call - 1(347)237-4270
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ZAMBIA BLOG TALK RADIO Bringing News To The Zambian Diaspora
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Dr Nevers Mumba is the former
Vice-President of Zambia and Zambia High
commissioner to Canada....
"I think I began my career at about the age of six, in front of the mirror, all dressed up and "reading the television news".Maureen Nkandu
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Presidential hopeful Professor Clive Chirwa resigned from the ruling MMD last week citing a number of reasons including corruptuion in the ruling party.
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Dr Caleb Fundanga, Governor- Bank
of Zambia joined us ZBTR and
emphasised the need for the Diaspora
to get organized.
Health Summit
Zambian loses 100 out of 1000 young
Zambians born before the age of two. Namibia
on the other hand 42 out of every 1000, why the
disparity in infant mortality rate.
"James Shikwati is a Kenyan libertarian economist and Director of
the Inter Region Economic Network who promotes freedom of
trade as the driving solution to poverty in Africa. He has made
comments which imply that aid towards Africa does nothing but
harm to their people, based on the central arguments that it is
mainly used either by politicians as a tool to manipulate people
and influence votes, or as a mechanism for dumping subsidised
foreign agricultural products onto local markets at below cost
making it nearly impossible for African farmers to compete."
James joins us this Sutarday to discuss the need for Africa to trade
with Africa. Watch
To participate call 347 237 4270
or Skype 'rogchali'
10:00am New York, 1500 Hrs GMT and 1600 Hrs Zambia

Mr Robert Sichinga is an International and
Managing Consultant with Innovative
Consulting and Research International. He is a
qualified Fellow of the Chartered Association of
Certified Accountants and founding member
and Fellow of the Zambia Institute of Chartered
Accountants (FZICA). ..........
"help ZBTR reach 72 Districts of Zambia"
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An Armenian-American diaspora billionaire will provide $12 million
to build and refurbish schools in Armenia, representatives of his
foundation has said,
Full Story
Kigali - In a crusade against grass thatched dwellings commonly
known as 'Nyakatsi', the Diaspora has been allocated 36 hectares
in Bugesera district to build over 500 houses for the poor in the
district.
Full Story
And many more Diaspora stories. We will ask how we relate to
these stories.?
9:00am New York time 13:00GMT, 14:00hrs Zambian time. make your
contribution, please call 1 347 237 4270.

Dr Chibwe is currently Deputy Director at the US Pharmacopeia
Inc., Promoting the Quality of Medicines Program (PQM), in
Rockville, Maryland.
He will speak about the efforts being carried out under the PQM
program to raise awareness and protect public health through
relevant regulatory and quality capacity building in over 30
countries globally. He will also specifically address the most
recent study - the Quality of Antimalarials in Sub-saharan Africa
(QAMSA) that had received some noticeable media attention.
Dr. Kennedy M. Chibwe received his BSc in Chemistry from the
University of Zambia and went on to do his Ph.D. at Cambridge
University in England. He has spent the last 14 years in
Pharmaceutical industry and was Director of Global Analytical
Operations at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals before moving to
GlaxoSmithKline Inc (GSK) where he was Director of Novel
Analytical Technologies and Automation Development.
10am New York , 15hrs GMT and 16hrs Zambia.
To10.00am New York, 15.00 GMT, 16.00 hrs Zambia
please call 1 347 237 4270.
Mayor Bill McAlpine of Okotoks-
Alberta- Canada, participated in mayors'
forum including mayors from Kitwe, Ndola
and Solwezi from Zambia