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Zambia's Foreign Minister Quits His Cabinet Post
Zambia's Foreign Minister, Harry Kalaba resigns, alleging government greed and corruption
Zambia's Foreign Minister, Harry Kalaba, has announced his resignation in a scathing Facebook post, denouncing the country's "path of insatiable greed and shame".
Plus the UN's children's fund, warns that half of Nigeria's 20,000 babies born New Year's day, may not survive beyond their first month.
And a fellow South African pays tribute to South African poet laureate and political activist Professor Keorapetse Willie Kgositsile, whose death has been announced.
(Image: Zambia's Harry Kalaba. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
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