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Some girls coming from antenatal Clinic in Sinazeze
Northwestern Province Education Officer (PEO) Jennipher Malama has expressed worry at the increased number of early pregnancies in the province.
Mrs. Malama said most Schools in the province have continued to record a high number of girls dropping out of school as a result of pregnancy.
She said the province last year recorded about 1000 cases of early pregnancies, a rate she described as alarming.
Mrs Malama said this in Solwezi today during newly appointed Northwestern Province Permanent Secretary Daniel Bowasi’s familiarization tour of the Provincial Education Office.
She, however, pointed out that her office is engaging parents and communities on the matter to stop the situation from worsening.
Meanwhile, the PEO has expressed happiness with the number of boarding Schools being constructed across the province.
Mrs. Malama said this would help reduce the number of children especially girls dropping out of school as a result of long distances to school.
A DAF truck ferrying 350 bags of maize overturned in Kabwe near Chibombo after the driver lost control.
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A Chibombo villager helping move the bags of maize
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Zain officials waiting for Central Province permanent secretary Mr Denny Lumbama to officially commission the new Zain site in Kapiri Mposhi
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Kapiri Mposhi DC cutting the ribbon on the gate to the new Zain site in Kapiri Mposhi during the commissioning of a transmitter in Central Province.
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A notice at the daily mail offices
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Zambian Boxer Hastings Bwalya with Fomer Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World Mike Tyson(courtesy of Ibn casson )
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Hasting Bwalya with former two-division world champion Zab Juda(courtesy of Ibn casson )
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St Magarets UCZ church in Kitwe
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A ZAIN mast at one of the houses in a compound in Lusaka.Word on the street has it that the owner is paid K1million monthly to have the mast on his property.
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A ZAIN mast at one of the houses in a compound in Lusaka.Word on the street has it that the owner is paid K1million monthly to have the mast on his property.
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President Banda inspects a guard of honor when he arrived in Brazil
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President Banda signs the visitors book when he arrived in Brazil
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President Rupiah Banda ando Brazilian Ambassador to Zambia Josal Pellegrino during the Zambia-Brazil Business Forum held at Federation of Industries of the State of Sao Paulo headquarters.
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President Rupiah Banda conferring with Joao Guilherme Sabino Ometto, vice president of Federation of Industries of the State of Sao Paulo after the Zambia-Brazil Business Forum.
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President Rupiah Banda conferring with Joao Guilherme Sabino Ometto (l), vice president of Federation of Industries of the State of Sao Paulo after the Zambia-Brazil Business Forum
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President Banda with his Brazilian counterpart Lula Inacio Da Silva pose for a photograph after official talks
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President Banda and his delegation during his State visit to Brazil
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President Banda and his Brazilian counterpart Lula Inacio Da Silva during official talks
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President Rupiah Banda when he arrived from Brazil
President Rupiah Banda
Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) presidential aspirant Nason Msoni has advised Republican President Rupiah Banda to re-think his political future.
Mr. Msoni says president Banda should seriously revisit his decision to contest 2011 presidential elections.
He said president Banda should reflect whether his decision to contest the 2011 presidential elections is in the interest of the party, or the nation.
Mr. Msoni added that the president has a unique opportunity to be a statesman by declaring that he will not contest the presidency in 2011.
He explained that it is clear that Zambia now needs someone with fresh ideas to run the affairs of the nation.
The presidential aspirant said Zambia’s tendency of falling back on the same leaders is retarding development.
And Mr. Msoni has advised politicians from UNIP who have joined the MMD to desist from politics of violence.
He said such members should realize that the MMD is a democratic party, and no party member should be intimidated.
[ QFM ]
Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) president Edith Nawakwi has charged that government’s decision not to hold a referendum on the contentious clauses in NCC draft constitution before the 2011 general elections will not prevent Zambians from voting out the MMD.
Ms Nawakwi told QFM in an interview in Lusaka that Zambians are eager for change of government adding that nothing will stop them.
She said even if the forthcoming 2011 tripartite elections are held under the current constitution, the government will not change people’s minds.
The FDD president says it is disappointing that the Rupiah Banda led administration has decided not to heed to people’s wishes for the enactment of the whole new constitution.
Last week Vice President George Kunda announced that government has started the process of enacting the new constitution starting with provisions that do require going to the referendum.
Mr. Kunda who is also Justice Minister however said government may not hold the referendum before the 2011 elections because of financial constraints.
[ QFM ]
The Zambia national team leaves for Tanzania on Wednesday to take part in this year’s Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup.
Dario Bonetti’s 20-man team will leave at 10:00 on Zambezi Airlines for Dar-es-Salaam from Lusaka International Airport.
Coach Dario Bonetti said that he was feeling upbeat about Zambia’s prospects at the Cecafa Cup.
“I have a good feeling about this tournament because we have a very good quality,” Bonetti said.
And Faz president Kalusha Bwalya said a lot was expected from the team and thanked Cecafa for inviting Zambia to take part in the tournament for a third successive time.
“The people appreciate and realize how our competitiveness in terms of how good we can be. They realize that our team has potential,” Kalusha said.
Meanwhile, defender Davies Nkausu from SuperSport United in South Africa joined the team on Monday and will travel with the team to Tanzania as the only foreign-based player in the team.
Zambia kickoff their Cecafa Cup outing against hosts Tanzania on Sunday in the two sides opening Group A match.
Faz president Kalusha Bwalya has said two Fifa observers will grace Saturdays emergency council meeting in Kabwe.
Kalusha revealed today at Nkoloma Stadium in Lusaka where he had paid a courtesy call on the Zambia national team in training that Fifa regional development Officer Ashford Mamelodi from Botswana will be one of the official from the games mother body in attendance.
The 1988 Africa footballer of the year also repeated that there will be one ECM this weekend.
“There is only going to be one meeting, one official meeting on the 27th of November and we have FIFA representative coming,” Kalusha said.
“We have two people coming (Ashford) Mamelodi and another person coming from Zurich to this meeting on the 27th and there have given guidance.”
Kalusha also took a swipe at the media for allegedly championing the parallel ECM on November 26 that will be held in Lusaka.
“I think that we should also be correct when we report on these things because the procedure that has to be taken has to be correct that is the procedure that has been taken on the 27th meeting,” Kalusha said.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) pledges to Zambia in the first 11 months of 2010 jumped to $4.3 billion from $959 million for the whole of last year, a government body said on Tuesday.
Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) director for export promotions Glyne Michelo told Reuters the surge in interest was mainly due to growth of the manufacturing and mining sectors in Africa’s largest copper producer.
Michelo said Britain, Belgium, South Africa, China and India continued to be the main sources of inward investment, after accounting for 70 percent of the Zambia’s total FDI in 2009.
“The outlook for 2010 looks promising with over $4.3 billion investment pledges and pledged employment of 36,000 jobs already recorded between January to November 2010 against a target of $3 billion for the year,” Michelo said.
Most of the pledges had come from private investors, he added, and the manufacturing sector had generated the most interest, with planned investments of $1.6 billion that would create an estimated 19,500 jobs.
The mining sector attracted $1.4 billion of interest translating into 3,800 jobs in a sector that took a major hit in late 2008 after a collapse in world copper prices.
The jump in investment interest and the prospect of thousands of extra jobs are likely to help President Rupiah Banda, who faces an election next year, probably in September-October before the start of the rainy season.
A cross section of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and church groups have welcomed the Catholic Church for embracing the use of condoms to stop the spread of HIV and AIDS.
Pope Benedict XVI has said condom use can be justified in some cases to help stop the spread of AIDS.
This is according to the BBC news monitored in Lusaka.
Pope Benedict said during a visit to Cameroon last year that handing out condoms might actually make HIV infection worse.
And Zambia National Aids Network (ZNAN) communications officer Sam Kapembwa says the reality of the current situation requires the use of condoms in certain cases.
“There are cases of discordant couples in which one partner is positive while the other is negative, or both couples are positive. Condoms come in handy in such situations,” he said.
Mr Kapembwa commended the Church for embracing the use of condoms in certain cases.
International Fellowship of Christian Churches Bishop Simon Chihana said his church has always advocated the use of condoms as the best measure of family planning.
“This is a big U-turn by the Catholics on this matter because it has to do with the times we are living in. I think the Catholics condemned it because it promoted promiscuity, but I am sure that the Church has learnt lessons from the reality,” he said.
And Evangelical Youth Alliance president Reverend Moses Lungu said the position taken by Pope Benedict should be encouraged in a way because there are cases where the use of condoms should be encouraged.
Rev Lungu, however, said the spread of AIDS is as a result of people indulging in illicit behaviour.
He said from the worldly perspective, it is all right for people to use condoms.
“For people outside the church, we will not stop people who are using condoms,” he said.
[pullquote]“This is a big U-turn by the Catholics on this matter because it has to do with the times we are living in. I think the Catholics condemned it because it promoted promiscuity, but I am sure that the Church has learnt lessons from the reality,” he said.[/pullquote]
Rev Lungu advised people to stay away from illicit sex.
Pope Benedict XVI has said condom use can be justified in some cases to help stop the spread of AIDS, the first Vatican exception to a long-held policy condemning condom use.
The comments were made in a new book, which the Vatican newspaper ran excerpts of in its Saturday edition.
The Church’s hardline stance over contraception has led to the Vatican being heavily criticised for its position in the context of the AIDS crisis.
The book – Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times – is based on a series of interviews the Pope gave the German Catholic journalist, Peter Seewald, earlier this year.
The Pope, however, made it clear that he considers the use of condoms a last resort and not a way to prevent conception. The example he gave of when they could be used was in the case of male prostitutes.
Amid his vigorous defence of the Church in contemporary society, the Pope acknowledged some of the Church’s failings, like in the sexual-abuse crisis, which he calls “a volcano of filth” sent by the devil.
He pointed to a “readiness for aggression” among those who criticised him for revoking the excommunication of a bishop who denied the scope of the Holocaust.
The Pope also discussed his contentious speech in Regensburg, Germany, in 2006, which provoked the ire of the Muslim world; denounced drug abuse; explained what he described as the impossibility of ordaining women as priests; and, with surprising candour, said that if he did not feel up to the task of being pope, he would resign.
[ Zambia Daily Mail ]
On Sunday afternoon , November 21st, from 13:06 hrs to 14:00hrs we experienced a technical problem that forced the site to go offline. The problem has now been fully resolved and we monitored the site the whole day on Monday and it performed well. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused to our Sunday bloggers.
We would like to take this opportunity to let you know that we have noticed a doubling in Internet traffic during the run up to by-elections. In fact on the day of results anouncement, the site could not cope and we had to shut down certain features to just keep the site available.
Next year is a big year for Zambia, politically, and we anticipate heavy traffic during the 2011 elections season. Because of this we are making plans to change the architecture of the web site so that it is able to handle the spike in traffic that we expect next year. The consequence of this is that we shall be doing a lot of maintenance and upgrade work during the weekends of month of December. We shall schedule maintenance/upgrade plans from midnight to morning ZMT so that we keep the inconvenience of the downtime to a minimum.
Again we apologize for the inconvenience this will cause to our weekend night bloggers. This is something we must do. It is a necessary growth path for LT if we are to progress to the next stage.
INDENI Petroleum Refinery is expected to resume operations later this week following 45 days of maintenance, managing director, Maybin Noole has said.
According to a statement released in Ndola yesterday by the firm’s public relations officer Mwila Nkonge, the maintenance works and instrumentation project were completed on schedule, with no fatalities or major lost time injuries.
During the shutdown, one of the longest and heaviest in the refinery’s history, the company migrated its instrumentation control to an electronic system.
Mr Noole said the plant had started operating and management expected to send all products to storage within the next days.
“True to our commitment to safety, I am pleased that the works were conducted in a very safe manner.
“On behalf of management, I wish to commend all the personnel involved in the shutdown – our own staff and contractors – for this excellent safety record,” he said.
On Friday, Energy Minister Kenneth Konga told Dow Jones Newswires that all the maintenance work had finished, and that Zambia did not experience any fuel shortages during the shutdown.
Indeni was shut in October for annual maintenance to replace obsolete machinery at the aging refinery, which has broken down several times in the past few years, causing fuel shortages in Zambia.
[pullquote]“True to our commitment to safety, I am pleased that the works were conducted in a very safe manner.
“On behalf of management, I wish to commend all the personnel involved in the shutdown – our own staff and contractors – for this excellent safety record,” he said.[/pullquote]
The Government imported at least 55 million litres of refined fuel products as a safeguard against fuel shortages on the domestic market before the closure.
The Government is considering recapitalisation and upgrades at Indeni, contingent on the results of a study of Zambia’s fuel needs, Mr Konga said.
[ Times of Zambia ]
Former Kasenengwa Member of Parliament Timothy Nyirenda has said Patriotic Front (PF) leader Michael Sata is allegedly promoting tribalism by raising people’s emotions over the Barotse Agreement.
And former PF secretary general Edward Mumbi has said Mr Sata’s championing of the Barotse Agreement is one of his several methods to seek popularity in the media.
Mr Nyirenda said it was disheartening for the PF president to continue exciting Zambians with his “wild” views on the long-discarded Barotse Agreement.
He said such acts amounted to promoting tribalism and advised Mr Sata to unite the citizens under the popularly agreed motto of ‘One Zambia, One nation’.
In yesterday edition of The Post, Mr Sata was quoted as having said the Barotse agreement was real and nobody could gloss over it.
Mr Sata said the people of Western Province had the right to demand what belonged to them.
But Mr Mumbi said the opposition leader’s populist views were a clear demonstration of his desperation to get to State House at any cost.
He said it was irresponsible for any leader to seek to divide the people of Zambia as a means of achieving his political goals.
Mr Mumbi said it was strange that Mr Sata was raising issues about the Barotseland Agreement, which he did not do when he served under former presidents Kenneth Kaunda and Frederick Chiluba.
“It is irresponsible for Mr Sata to start inciting Zambians to these levels. In the first place, he could not defend the Barotse Agreement when he served under Dr Kaunda.
“In the Chiluba administration, Mr Sata was in the Cabinet but could not defend the agreement. Now that he is in the opposition, he is defending it and making populist statements in the media,” Mr Mumbi said.
And a political activist in Chipata, Gideon Zulu has said it is sad that Mr Sata is working to divide the Zambian people.
Mr Zulu, who is managing director of Sawaza Investments, said in an interview yesterday that Mr Sata should allow the country to enjoy the peace it was known for worldwide.
[ Times of Zambia ]
file:Roan MP Chishimba kambwili talks to journalists
The Mine-workers Union of Zambia (MUZ) general secretary Oswell Munyenyembe has said Roan Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili was lying by saying that miners going on recess would be declared redundant.
And Luanshya Copper Mines (LCM) management has advised Mr Kambwili to avoid using the mining firm as a campaign ground.
MUZ general secretary Oswell Munyenyembe said contrary to what Mr Kambwili was saying, no miner would lose his job because they would all be recalled to work.
Mr Munyenyembe advised Mr Kambwili to consult experts on miners’ conditions of service before making public statements.
He said issues concerning miners’ conditions of service could be best addressed through dialogue among all parties concerned and not in the media.
LCM public relations officer, Sydney Chileya said yesterday that Mr Kambwili should stop politicising the operations of the mine and deliberately misleading the public over the 45-day recess meant to create space for rehabilitations.
Mr Kambwili on Sunday afternoon addressed a meeting at Mpatamatu Market where he said the miners sent on break could be declared redundant by the mine owners.
He urged them to march to the LCM general offices demanding to be paid their leave days and all the allowances they were entitled to when they report for work.
Mr Kambwili argued that the miners should get all their allowances because it was not their fault that they were on break.
But Mr Chileya commended the workers for not heeding Mr Kambwili’s calls to stage a demonstration at the mine’s head office.
He said there were between 400 and 500 miners and concentrator employees who were recently put on recess and that they were all entitled to monthly salaries, housing allowances and miners’ supplements.
He said the miners on recess were still employees and were only allowed to visit the plant after getting security clearance as a security measure aimed at reducing thefts.
Mr Chileya accused Mr Kambwili of exhibiting his ignorance by holding a meeting at which he said things which were not true about the mine’s operation.
CLM management decided to put some miners on recess to pave way for the installation of a new hoist, mining equipment which would improve the mine’s efficiency by 60 per cent.
[ Times of Zambia ]
POST Managing Editor Amos Malupenga says his publication has officially declared former President Fredrick Chiluba”s Spokesperson Emmanuel Mwamba as its enemy.
Mr. Malupenga said Mr. Mwamba was declared an enemy of the POST Newspapers a few days after its Editor-in-Chief Fred M’membe was released from custody on bail in a contempt case.
Mr. Malupenga told the Lusaka High Court that this is because of Mr. Mwamba’s alleged activities against the newspaper.
He was testifying this during cross examination in a matter where Mr. Mwamba is charged with contempt.
It is alleged that Mr. Mwamba authored two contemptuous and scandalous articles on the Zambian Watchdog website analyzing Mathew Mohan’s evidence in the murder of Lusaka businessman Sajid Itowala.
Mr. Malupenga said the publication regards anyone who plans to cause complete destruction of its establishment as an enemy.
He also told the court that members of staff at the POST who dealt with Mr. Mwamba at a personal level have been told to do so cautiously.
Mr. Malupenga further said the online publication is an alternative source of news.
Another witness Lloyd Musonda testified that the Zambian Watchdog was duly registered with the office of the Registrar of Companies.
Mr. Musonda, an Assistant Inspector of Companies at the Patents and Companies Registrations Agents-PACRA, testified that a Mr. Lloyd Himambo is the sole proprietor of the online publication.
[ ZNBC ]
File: A peasant farmer cycling to the market to sell his vegetables
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) New research published in the journal Nature reveals that pancreatic cancer takes 20 years to grow to the point where it is diagnosed by conventional medical doctors. This was determined by sequencing the DNA of cancer tumor cells from deceased patients. Because cancer mutations occur in growing tumors at a known rate, scientists were able to map the timing of the development of full-blown pancreatic cancer tumors.
Here’s what the scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute found (and here’s why this matters in a huge way to people interested in healthy living):
• It takes 11.7 years for one mutation in a pancreas cell to grow into a “mature” pancreatic tumor (which might show up on a medical scan).
• It takes another 6.8 years for the pancreatic tumor to spread and cause tumors to appear in other organs of the body.
In all, it takes about 20 years for a person to grow a cancer tumor and see it spread to the point where their doctor will diagnose them with pancreatic cancer.
In other words, by the time doctors diagnose you with cancer, you’ve already been growing it for two decades.
Here’s why this matters
This is a huge story for five very important reasons:
Reason #1) The idea thrown around by cancer doctors that cancer is a “spontaneous disease” that strikes randomly and without warning is pure bunk. In order to “get” cancer, you actually have to GROW cancer for two decades! It doesn’t just suddenly appear like magic.
Reason #2) When cancer doctors diagnose you with pancreatic cancer and say things like, “Good thing we caught it early!” they are full of bunk yet again. They didn’t catch it early — they caught it late! Almost 20 years too late.
Reason #3) If it takes 20 years to grow cancer tumors to the point where you get diagnosed with aggressive pancreatic cancer, then that means you have 20 years to change your lifestyle and stop the cancer!
That’s the most important point of all, of course. In order to grow cancer tumors for 20 years, you have to feed the cancer for 20 years while keeping it alive. And how do you do that?
How to grow and feed a cancer tumor
First of all, to grow a cancer tumor, you need to eat lots of sugar. Liquid sugars are the best (soda, anyone?), but any form of refined sugar will do. You have to eat sugar daily if you really want to support cancer cell division and growth.
Next, you have to be vitamin D deficient for the entire 20 years. That’s because vitamin D halts 77 percent of all cancers (including pancreatic cancer), and when combined with other nutrients like selenium, you can halt even more cancers.
If you combine vitamin D and selenium nutrition with other anti-cancer nutrients such as fresh vegetable juice (on a daily basis), omega-3 fatty acids, a wide variety of fresh fruits (including citrus and berries), and even red wine (rich with resveratrol), you will create an internal biological environment in which cancer tumors just can’t grow at all.
This is especially true if you pursue a more alkaline diet that’s rich in vegetables and green foods rather than acidic substances such as sugar, fried foods and caffeine.
Combine all this with some regular exercise, good sleep, stress reduction habits and strict avoidance of cancer-causing chemicals, and you’ve got a recipe for blocking virtually all tumor growth in your body.
Cancer tumors simply cannot grow in an environment that’s rich in plant-based nutrients and based on healthy, natural living.
So even if you have a wayward pancreatic cell that decides to mutate and try to become cancerous on its own, that cell will not have any long-term success in replicating inside your body because it’s surrounded by healthy cells and bathed in anti-cancer nutrients carried to it each day in your blood!
Remember, your cells rely entirely on nutrients delivered by your blood, and if your blood is delivering anti-cancer nutrients each day, then “bad” cells will never be allowed to replicate and become cancer tumors.
Obviously, the composition of your blood is determined by what you eat. If you eat junk food, your blood will be junk blood, and it will deliver junk to your cells (cancer cells love junk!). If you eat healthy foods, you will have healthy blood, and cancer tumors will shrivel up and actually lose their blood supply then die.
This is what this new research actually reveals: That pancreatic cancer takes two decades to develop inside your body, which naturally means you have two decades to change your health habits and stop growing cancer tumors in your body.
You may be growing cancer tumors right now… (but here’s how to stop it)
If you’ve been pursuing a lifestyle of junk foods, processed foods, fried foods, excessive animal products and sun avoidance (you’re not seriously still slapping sunscreen on your skin, are you?), then you are probably growing cancer tumors in your body right now. Almost as if you were trying to!
So you might be on year 10 of the 20-year cancer diagnosis plan. There’s no way to know because cancer tumors don’t show up diagnostic tests when they’re only 10 years old (usually). But if you’ve been following a cancer-promoting lifestyle, you can rest assured you have micro tumors in your body that are just waiting for more sugar and less vitamin D in your blood in order to divide and grow even more.
So why not stop growing cancer tumors today? Start juicing! If you want to stop cancer in its tracks, buy yourself a high-end countertop juicing machine, go out and buy some organic produce on a regular basis, and start juicing away your cancer. (No kidding!)
Start consuming anti-cancer nutrients on a daily basis. Even a small amount of fresh kale, cabbage or broccoli juice (just one ounce) taken every day will have a powerful anti-cancer effect and may halt tumor growth in your body.
But just to be sure, blend and drink fresh citrus fruits, organic berries, and microalgae supplements on a regular basis. Read NaturalNews and learn about the latest breaking news on anti-cancer foods and supplements. Changing what you eat will dramatically alter what your body grows inside. Instead of growing cancer tumors, you can start growing healthy cells that will quickly overpower any diseased cells.
Steer clear of all synthetic chemicals
Of course, for all this to work, it is VITAL that you avoid all synthetic chemicals: Do not take pharmaceuticals; do not use conventional perfumes, skin lotions, shampoos or other personal care products; do not use conventional laundry detergents (they’re filled with cancer-causing fragrance chemicals); do not use anti-bacterial soaps; do not cook on nonstick cookware; do not drink fluoride in your water… basically just get all the toxic chemicals out of your house and out of your life.
So remember: Cancer is not random, nor is it genetic. It doesn’t appear spontaneously, and in the case of pancreatic cancer, it actually takes two decades to grow it to the point where it gets noticed by cancer doctors!
That means you’ve got 20 years to make a change in your life. Why not start right now? (If you haven’t already…)
Fact: Pancreatic survival rates have not changed in the last 40 years. Do you know why? Because conventional medical doctors wait until you’ve been growing cancer for 20 years to tell you that you have cancer. (Seriously. And they think they’re running the most “advanced” medical system in the world.)
Wouldn’t it make more sense to teach patients how to prevent cancer two decades earlier and thereby avoid growing it in the first place?
The Petitioners of the embattled Kalushya Bwalya led FAZ Executive have accused world Football Governing body FIFA of changing goal posts in the manner in which it is intervening in the crisis at Football House.
Football administrator Simata Simata has doubted the authenticity of a letter written to FAZ by FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke describing the November 26 Meeting as illegal.
SIMATA said anyone could have written the letter because it was sent to FAZ through a fax.
Simata told ZNBC Sport in an interview wondered how FIFA could say that the November 26 Emergency Council Meeting -ECM- is illegal when it earlier stated that the matter is an internal affair for the Zambian football family to resolve.
Simata said the petitioners welcome dialogue and urged FIFA to be part of the meeting if they are interested in seeing the impasse at Football House resolved.
In a letter to FAZ President Kalusha Bwalya, FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke calling for another Council meeting apart from the one FAZ has called will be redundant
Valcke is hopeful the November 27 ECM will overcome the crisis at FAZ.
