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evision station and seven (7) private
and community radio stations. This is
according to a press statement issued to
MISA Zambia on the 30 May,2012 by the
Press and Public Relations Officer at the
Ministry of Information ,Broadcasting
and Labour Betiniko Kayaya. The radio
stations that have been issued licences
include, Kariba FM radio (Siavonga),
Kafue FM radio (Kafue), Mpika FM radio
(Mpika), Comet FM radio (Lusaka). Others
include Ama FM radio (Lusaka), Pan African FM radio (Lusaka) as well as Millennium FM radio of Lusaka. The Television
Station has been named as North-West
television (Solwezi).

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Date: June 1, 2012
Person/ institution: Mpandmwike,
Zambia National Broadcasting
Corporation (ZNBC)
Violation/ issue: Detained
On 24 May 2012, Andrew Mpandmwike, a Zambia National Broadcasting
Corporation (ZNBC) reporter was nearly
charged with criminal trespass while him,
his driver and camera were detained for
hours until his Assignment Editor Chansa
Mayani intervened. Mpandamwike was
harassed as he was covering an alleged
abuse of the rights of a police officer
who alleges that he had been transferred
four times within a year. According to
Edem Djokotoe in his column titled Soul
to Soul, and published in The Post of 1
June 2012, Mpandamwike was assigned
to peruse the story following a walk-in
interview by a Police Officer identified as
Sergeant Maxwell Kabungo who alleged
that his children’s education was being



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disrupted due to frequent transfers.
And Chansa Mayani, the ZNBC Kitwe
Studios assignments Editor said that
Mpandamwike went

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Date: June 11, 2012
Person/ institution: Richard Sakala,
Daily Nation newspaper
Violation/ issue: Legislation
Defence Minister Geoffrey Mwamba,
who is also a member of parliament for
Kasama Central, has sued the Daily Nation newspaper editor-in-chief Richard
Sakala for alleged defamation and is
claiming K500 million as damages. According to the Zambia Daily Mail of 11
June, 2012 Mwamba has taken Sakala
to court over an article titled “Malawi to
sell oil donated by Zambia” published in
May 2012 which contained allegations
that controversy was till brewing over
the transportation of donated fuel following reports that unregistered vehicles belonging to Mwamba were used to
ferry the fuel to Malawi.

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Date: June 12, 2012
Person/ institution: United Party for
National Development (UNDP, the
Daily Nation and Zambian Watchdog
Violation/ issue: Legislation
Zambian President Michael Sata has
sued five person among them a President of an opposition political party,
United Party for National Development
(UNDP) Hakainde Hichilema, the Daily
Nation and Zambian Watchdog media
proprietors, Richard Sakala and Lloyd
Himaambo respectively for defamation.

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