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Zambia prepares to vote

Sixteen candidates are contesting Zambia’s presidential election on 12 August.

Zambians go to the polls on 12 August to elect the president and National Assembly.

Plus the World Health Organization co-ordinates an emergency response to West Africa's first case of the highly infectious Marburg virus in Guinea.

And Somali author Nadifa Mohamed on her latest novel The Fortune Men, which has been longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize.

Photo: Election campaign posters in Zambia. Credit: AFP

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23 minutes

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Tue 10 Aug 202119:06GMT

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only

Tue 10 Aug 202119:06GMT
BBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only

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