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Zambian police arrested and charged Emmanuel Mwamba, former Zambian president Fredrick Chiluba’s Public Relations aide, for allegedly authoring and publishing contemptuous articles on the online publication Zambia Watchdog. More: http://www.africanews.com/site/Expresident_Chilubas_aide_arrested/list_messages/36106Ex-president. Also see: http://www.zambianwatchdog.com/2010/11/17/police-to-arrest-emmanuel-mwamba-today/

Charles Andrianasoavina, a colonel with the Madagascan military, announced on Wednesday that he and a group of dissident top-ranking officers have taken over the Indian Ocean island nation of Madagascar. Other military officers reportedly vow to fight back the mutiny.

The announcement comes in the midst of voting on a new constitution that calls for keeping President Andry Rajoelina, who Colonel Charles Andrianasoavina backed when he grabbed power last March, in power indefinitely. More: http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Coup-Claim-in-Madagascar-108669519.html Also see: http://www.africanews.com/site/Madagascar_Fresh_coup_announced/list_messages/36113

The Southern African Development Community summoned Zimbabwean leaders to Regional Meeting as crisis in the troubled Zimbabwean unity government deepens. More: http://www.voanews.com/zimbabwe/news/Zimbabwe-Leaders-Summoned-to-SADC-Session-108721339.html<-->

 

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In his recent previous life Ndumba taught (as an Adjunct Professor) traditional justice and indigenous African political institutions in sub-Saharan Africa at the Rhode Island College-Anthropology Department.

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