“The spirit of the 1993 team will always be there for Zambia.”
Kalusha Bwalya, Zambia’s former football captain, is reflecting on the day that changed his life forever.
On April 27, 1993, a military aircraft taking 18 of his team-mates and their coach to a World Cup qualifier against Senegal crashed shortly after refuelling in Gabon. All 30 people aboard died.
Bwalya would have been on the plane, too, but for the fact that he was playing for PSV Eindhoven
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Ivor Ichikowitz is an industrialist and philanthropist. He is the chair of the Ichikowitz Family Foundation, which paid for the installation of the Mandela mural in Kyiv.
In the wake of this year’s Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, there are some who will point to both the drop in attendance by heads of state and the Black Sea Grain Initiative’s collapse as evidence that the inaugural African Peace Initiative
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Russia said Monday it will closely follow talks on Ukraine set to take place in Saudi Arabia early next month.
Saudi Arabia is planning to host peace talks including Ukraine, Western nations and selected major developing countries in August, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
Russia — which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and continues to pound Ukraine with missile attacks — was not invited
A couple have told Ben Fogle that growing up in the Zambian wilderness has made their daughters more confident – in spite of all the dangerous wildlife lurking around.
Ruth, 36, and Lyndon Pinches, 39, moved from the UK to Zambia six years ago to open a safari lodge business where tourists pay £218 per person per night.
The couple admitted on last night’s New Lives in the Wild that there’s dangers from the local wildlife on the edge of
‘It was a sign of destiny, written in the sky. There was a force with us. I think God has helped us and given us strength.’
It was almost fitting that Zambia coach Herve Renard chose those words to describe Zambia’s remarkable Africa Cup of Nations glory almost a decade ago now.
In truth, few gave them a prayer of achieving such a fairytale piece of football history when the 28th edition of the tournament – co-hosted by Equatorial Guinea
