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Article: Profile: Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 19, 2008
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Profile: Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa
LUSAKA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa
has died in a military hospital in Paris after being hospitalized
for more than a month, Vice President Rupiah Banda said Tuesday,
according to agencies' reports.
Born in Mufulir, Copperbelt Province on Sept. 3, 1948, Mwanawasa
started to emerge politically when he, as vice-president of the
University of Zambia Student Union, organized students in several
demonstrations in support of the liberation struggle in South
Africa.
After graduation from college in 1973, the bachelor-degree holder
gradually established his reputation as a prominent lawyer in the
next two decades.
In his ...