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Barely two weeks since the current US First Lady Laura Bush visited the Zambian Enterprise, Bill Clinton jets in … Former US President William Jefferson Clinton will be in Zambia tomorrow, Friday July 20th, 2007.
He arrived in Johannesburg this Wednesday via the Dominican Republic to start his second African tour … this will be his first ever visit to Zambia and we hope he would find it memorably nolstagic compared to any African nation he has ever visited.
While in Johannesburg, he met President Mbeki and spent time at the city hall where he met with Johannesburg city officials, who are implementing the Clinton Climate Initiative’s Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Programme.
He will be in Malawi earlier and will hold a closed-door meeting with President Bingu wa Mutharika at the New State House in Lilongwe for 30 minutes. His entourage will then visit the construction site of a rural hospital established by the Clinton-Hunter Development Initiative and Partners in Health.
President Clinton last year partnered with Scottish philanthropist Tom Hunter and unveiled two plans to initiate rural growth centres in Malawi. He jets into Zambia Friday afternoon and will attend a youth outreach soccer tournament hosted by local leaders to appeal to young people in Zambia about the importance of HIV/AIDS testing.
After spending the early part of this coming weekend in Zambia, he will fly to Tanzania on Sunday and is expected back in the United States of America by Tuesday next week. The 42nd president is largely viewed as the ‘first black president’ of America because of his closeness to causes of African Americans and his interest in developing Africa.
The Zambian Chronicle wishes the former US President a memorable stay and God Speed as he enjoys Zambian hospitality while he conducts his business within the Enterprise – Zambia The Beautiful … thanks a trillion.
Brainwave R Mumba, Sr.
CEO & President – Zambian Chronicle
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Zambian Chronicle 
July 20, 2007 at 5:24 am
MEMBERS OF THE CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE …
The Honorable Al Gore
The Honorable Richard C. Holbrooke
His Excellency Kenneth Kaunda
The Honorable Peter King
His Excellency Wim Kok
Her Excellency Chandrika
Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
His Excellency Aleksander
Kwasniewski
The Right Honorable Paul Martin
His Excellency Amre Moussa
His Excellency Albert Reynolds
Her Excellency Mary Robinson
His Excellency Jorge Sampaio
The Honorable Dr. Javier Solana
The Honorable Dominique Strauss-Kahn
His Excellency Surakiart
Sathirathai
The Honorable Borys Tarasyuk
His Excellency Ernesto Zedillo
Fazle Hasan Abed
Gerry Adams
John Adams
Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnelo
Salman Ahmad
Dr. Jacques Aigrain
Dr. Madeleine K. Albright
Christiane Amanpour
Bradbury H. Anderson
Rocky Anderson
Robert Annibale
Lance Armstrong
Susan E. Arnold
Former Head of State – Dr. Kenneth Kaunda is a member and here below is his short biography …
http://attend.clintonglobalinitiative.org/home.nsf/ext_2006_attend?Open&att=speak_kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda
Former President of the Republic of Zambia
Kenneth Kaunda, the first president of Zambia, born April 1924, was educated at Lubwa Mission School and Munali Secondary School. He became a schoolteacher at Lubwa in 1943, rising to the post of headmaster. Kaunda helped found the Lubwa branch of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1950 and rose through the ranks to become secretary general of the party three years later.
In 1958, he broke away from ANC to form Zambia African National Congress (ZANC). When ZANC became the United National Independence Party (UNIP), Kaunda was elected president of the party. In 1962 when UNIP won 14 seats in the Legislative Assembly, Kaunda was named minister of Local Government and Social Welfare.
With UNIP’s sweeping electoral victory in 1964, Kaunda became prime minister of Northern Rhodesia. In October 1964, Kaunda became the first president of the newly independent Zambia, a position he held until October 31, 1991.
Today, Kaunda devotes of this time doing charity work for the anti-HIV/AIDS campaign.
July 20, 2007 at 7:08 pm
this is a good thing for Zambia
July 21, 2007 at 4:14 am
GENEVA (AFP) – Former US president Bill Clinton will visit Zambia this weekend to boost an UN-backed HIV/AIDS drugs programme which is helping treat some 13,250 children, UNITAID said Thursday.
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The partnership between the Bill Clinton Foundation and UNITAID, a international drugs funding initiative, has increased the number of children under life-saving treatment in Zambia by about 7,200, an agency spokeswoman said.
With current levels of the disease, youngsters in Zambia face a 50 percent life-time risk of dying of AIDS in the absence of treatment, according to United Nations.
The Zambian government is also due to sign up to a five million dollar UNITAID programme to finance costly second line antiretroviral drugs in Zambia, one of the countries worst affected by HIV/AIDS.
UNITAID was launched last year by Brazil, Britain, France, Chile, Norway as an international drug purchasing facility for poor countries, partly funded by airline ticket levies.
At least 34 countries have signed up as donors to the 300 million dollar fund, which is aiming to help treat an additional 100,000 child HIV/AIDS victims in the world this year, and provide drugs against other major diseases.
UNITAID board chief Philippe Douste-Blazy is also due to discuss the supply of new artemisin-based anti-malarial and tuberculosis drugs with Zambian officials.
Although not part of the United Nations, the organization is backed by the World Health Organization.
http://entertainment.yahoo.ca/s/afp/070719/health/health_aids_zambia
July 22, 2007 at 5:52 am
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070721/pl_afp/malawiusclintonhealth_070721173049;_ylt=At6tC_O6.Ai_53YBIYNH4WMV6w8F
Sat Jul 21, 1:30 PM ET
NENO, Malawi (AFP) – Former US President Bill Clinton urged “big people and governments” to do more for Africa to raise standards of the worlds poorest continent as he opened a state-of-the-art hospital here.
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“We can do better. What we are trying to do in this project is to show all the worlds big people and governments around the world, including my own, that this could be done and could get good results,” he said on Friday as he opened the hospital which will serve about 100,000 people in the rural district of Neno.
The 80-bed hospital was bankrolled by the Clinton foundation in partnership with Scottish multi-millionaire Tom Hunter at a cost of 70 million US dollars.
“What is missing are opportunities, assistance and access to education and money for Africans to develop,” said Clinton, who this week visited South Africa where he attended former president Nelson Mandela’s birthday celebrations.
He is also expected to extend his charity work to Zambia and Tanzania as part of his African visit.
“Malawi, as one of the worlds poorest nations, was a good example of what poor people face.
“There are few options and huge problems here with limited access to credit and road network for markets. Governments should do more,” he added.
Hunter earlier told reporters that the charity would be spending 100 million US dollars in 10 years between Malawi and Rwanda, two of the Africa’s poorest countries, where they have also launched humanitarian projects.
“We are not just here to help Africa, but help Africans to help themselves with our funding. We are not here to create work for ourselves, we are trying to create jobs for Africans,” Hunter said.
July 22, 2007 at 5:54 am
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070720/ap_on_re_af/clinton_role_reversal
By CELEAN JACOBSON, Associated Press Writer
Fri Jul 20, 3:18 PM ET
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Bill Clinton charmed crowds in South Africa this week, showing the diplomatic skills he could put to use if his wife becomes America’s first female president.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has said that she would make the former president a roaming ambassador, using his talent to repair the tattered image of the United States abroad.
Guests at a birthday function Bill Clinton attended Thursday for former South African President Nelson Mandela wanted to know if the American was ready for a role reversal.
“You bet!” Clinton said, sitting next to a chuckling Mandela.
He added he hoped he would not have to give up his Clinton Foundation work on AIDS, malaria and climate change. His current trip includes visits to a soccer youth outreach program in Zambia and a rural hospital in Malawi.
Clinton has used his prestige and contacts to negotiate lower prices on lifesaving AIDS drugs in Africa. He’s also worked with former President George H.W. Bush in raising funds for victims of the 2004 tsunami.
Like Bush and Jimmy Carter, Clinton has put the lessons learned as president to use internationally in his post-presidential career, said Theodore J. Lowi, a professor of American government at Cornell University who has written extensively on the presidency.
If Hillary Clinton is elected president, employing her husband as a roving ambassador would be smart in terms in foreign policy — and also in terms of establishing her own authority in the White House, Lowi said.
Bill Clinton “is held in very high esteem in this country,” said Elizabeth Mataka, an AIDS activist in Zambia who was recently appointed the United Nations’ special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Richard Cornwell of the Pretoria-based Institute for Strategic Studies said Clinton’s presidential legacy on the continent was worth studying.
“I don’t think Africa really occupied a massive part on his global scheme. If you look back in retrospect on his administration Africa barely features in its index,” he said, saying Bill Clinton’s Sudan policy was “singularly directionless” and noting he apologized for moving too slowly to stop the Rwandan genocide.
Clinton demonstrated his popular touch Friday after listening to a farmer discussing problems facing subsistence peasants in Malawi, one of the poorest southern African countries.
“When a farmer speaks as well as you have done, he quits and joins politics,” he grinned.
In Malawi, where televisions are rare, most had heard of Clinton prior to his visit. But there was uncertainty over his wife.
When asked his opinion about Hillary Clinton running for office, carpenter Tapuwa Shiri said: “For which country?”
He then turned his attention back to Bill. “I wish he run for office here because with his wealth all of us can be rich. We can start using dollars.”
South Africans were curious about one of Hillary Clinton’s rivals, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., whose father was Kenyan and who was met with great excitement when he traveled through Africa last year.
Did Bill Clinton wish for a “Clinton-Obama, Obama-Clinton ticket?”
“It would be foolish for Hillary, or, frankly, for any of the others running to contemplate who their vice president’s going to be. We’ve got a race to win first. Then I will entertain such questions, if I am asked. And if I am not asked I will keep my thoughts to myself.”
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Associated Press Writer Joseph J. Schatz in Lusaka, Zambia and Amy Jeffries in Johannesburg contributed to this report.
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February 19, 2009 at 7:42 pm
am a zambian 22years old girl i don’t know what to do i just need help from you and mr clinton my mother and us hav no were to stay my dad left us please enybody out ther we need help