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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A country of south-central Africa. The original San inhabitants were pushed out by migrating Bantus between the 16th and 18th centuries, and the area was explored by David Livingstone in the 1850s. It was administered after 1889 by the British South Africa Company, founded by Cecil Rhodes, becoming the protectorate of Northern Rhodesia in 1911 and passing to British administration in 1924. From 1953 to 1963 it was part of the colonial federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, gaining independence in 1964 as the republic of Zambia. Lusaka is the capital and the largest city.
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- proper noun A
country in southernAfrica . Official name:Republic of Zambia . Formerly calledNorthern Rhodesia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a republic in central Africa; formerly controlled by Great Britain and called Northern Rhodesia until it gained independence within the commonwealth in 1964
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Themba Hadebe/Associated Press ZAMBIA VOTES: Zambian election observers looked on as results were announced at the election center in Lusaka, Zambia, on Friday.
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GUN-RUNNING CHARGES AGAINST ZAMBIA BASED ON RUMOURS, SAYS U.N. Robert Fowler, chairman of the U.N. Security Council comittee on sanctions against Angola's UNITA rebel movement Thursday said arms trafficking charges againt Zambia were based on rumours rather than facts.
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If an eight-year-old girl in Zambia is sickly and anemic, what difference does that make in our wifi world?
Princess Haya Al Hussein: Putting Food First Princess Haya Al Hussein 2010
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If an eight-year-old girl in Zambia is sickly and anemic, what difference does that make in our wifi world?
Princess Haya Al Hussein: Putting Food First Princess Haya Al Hussein 2010
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If an eight-year-old girl in Zambia is sickly and anemic, what difference does that make in our wifi world?
Princess Haya Al Hussein: Putting Food First Princess Haya Al Hussein 2010
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If an eight-year-old girl in Zambia is sickly and anemic, what difference does that make in our wifi world?
Princess Haya Al Hussein: Putting Food First Princess Haya Al Hussein 2010
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If an eight-year-old girl in Zambia is sickly and anemic, what difference does that make in our wifi world?
Princess Haya Al Hussein: Putting Food First Princess Haya Al Hussein 2010
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Kaunda, 72, hit out at what he called Zambia's "apartheid constitution" and urged African countries to fight it like they fought "apartheid in South Africa and Idi Amin in Uganda."
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As CNN mentioned, “for Greg Krause, the pass is a chance to raise money for a charity close to his heart, an elementary school in Zambia that his parents created for orphaned children in a small village two hours from a main road.”
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As CNN mentioned, “for Greg Krause, the pass is a chance to raise money for a charity close to his heart, an elementary school in Zambia that his parents created for orphaned children in a small village two hours from a main road.”
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