Kabwe

Its residents, such as 19-year-old Alice, take bream 45 miles to Kabwe – the provincial capital – to sell at market for a pittance.

Another child is not an option 2011

Despite the overwhelming evidence presented, which in some bizarre fashion was sufficient to convict his principal accomplices Faustin Kabwe and Aaron Chungu to 3 years of hard labor prison sentences, Chiluba come off without the slightest pretense of a reprimand.

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Back in Kabwe, Jonas Silupumbwe, a youth worker with Restless Development, wants to see the government's good words on employment translated into deeds.

Zambia's young people want to work 2011

Perched on a cow-skin chair under a jacaranda tree in a village in Chibombo, a rural province abutting urban Kabwe, the softly spoken single mother explains how a 100,000 Kwacha about £13 loan kickstarted a profitable confectionery trade.

Zambia's young people want to work 2011

But when Zambia's industries, nationalised after independence from Britain in 1964, collapsed, as copper prices halved in the mid-1970s, Kabwe did too.

Zambia's young people want to work 2011

After finishing the housework, it's off to her vegetable stall on the side of the busy highway between Kabwe and Lusaka.

Zambia's mothers struggling to survive 2011

All those activities that kept the place alive are gone – but there's probably double the number of people that there was 30 years ago, says Hendricks Kapila, head of Kabwe Community Youth Mobilisation.

Zambia's young people want to work 2011

Mr. Banda was elected unopposed Tuesday at the national convention of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy, held in the central Zambia town of Kabwe, said Christopher Mundia , a party electoral official.

Zambia's President to Run in 2011 Elections Nicholas Bariyo 2011

In time, his wife and two children returned to their thatched home in rural Muka Lashi, about 30km from Kabwe in central Zambia.

Zambia's young people want to work 2011

Kabwe, a once-prosperous town of 300,000 people about 130km north of the capital, Lusaka, is Zambia in microcosm.

Zambia's young people want to work 2011