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Zambia: City Market On Fire
Zambia Reports, 30 August 2017
It seems the fire episode in the Zambian political arena is not closed with Ndola's main Masala Market reportedly on fire. Read more »
Stores at Ndola's main Masala Market have been razed to the ground in yet another mysterious fire. Fires in Zambia have become a sensitive subject having recently triggered a state of threatened public emergency. In July, President Edgar Lungu declared a state of emergency after a fire destroyed the country's largest market in Lusaka.
Kapalala Market on fire.
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"As president, I will not tolerate this lawslessness," President Edgar Lungu said in a national address on both radio and television. He was speaking following a fire that ... Read more »
While the police and fire experts are yet to release their findings, some ruling party officials are speculating that the fire may have been instigated by opposition supporters in ... Read more »
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