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Abonnez-vous à la newsletter de l'INPT dès maintenant, et recevez notre actualité en priorité pour être informé des prochains événements.
Within the context of its South-South cooperation agreements, the INPT receives international students as well as executives from public administrations or public organizations in Africa.
The school offers them the opportunity to integrate the state engineer cycle in order to learn about the evolution of the telecommunications and information technology sectors but also to open up career perspectives within their organization.
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4% of the total number of INPT students is composed of foreign students, mainly from African countries (Guinea, Benin, Mali, Burkina ...). These students are guided as soon as they enter the INPT. They regularly organize various cultural and athletic activities. If you wish to study at the INPT, here is a brief summary of the steps to be taken as well as some additional information.
To study at the INPT, it is necessary to:
Have a residence permit.
The residence permit is compulsory in Morocco.
To obtain it: you need to go to the central police station affiliated to your place of residence before the expiry of your entry visa (3 months), provided with the following documents:
• Certified photocopy of the passport
• 8 passport photos
• Certificate of school enrollment
• Certificate of acceptance of your embassy in Morocco
• Lease agreement
• 60 DhsStamp
How much do I need to live in Morocco?
Generally, INPT students benefit from a residence roomas well as catering within the school campus at a nominal fee.
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To receive your money quickly and safely, you can contact one of the following agencies:
Western Union :
Simply contact the sender abroad; Ask them to deposit the money in a Western Union agency. Then, with a piece of identification, you just have to fill in a simple form to receive the moneyat one of POSTE MAROC's post offices: your money will finally be sent by the correspondent and will be delivered in a few minutes.
Bank Transfer
You can also receive your money by bank transfer by opening an account in a Moroccan bank. For this, you need:
• 1 certified photocopy of your residence permit
• 4 passport photos
• An amount of money of 5,000.00 Dhs (About 500 Euros)
Near the school
The INPT is located within Madinat Al Irfane, a district that brings together a number of universities and renowned schools in Rabat. In the center of this neighborhood, and just a short walk from the INPT, there are multiple shops, snack bars and even a pharmacy.
The INPT is located in a region that is reachable by buses, taxis and soon by the tramway of the city of Rabat
Rabat offers you a multitude of places of distraction, cultural centers, sports clubs, theaters, cinema...


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Greetings everyone. This is a whale/dolphin blog that needs to be typed despite these animals not being a part of Operation Bleeding Seas II. Today I come with alarming news from New Jersey. The federal government, yes, the United States Federal Government that is only looking out for your best interest and wants you to be as free as a bird in the sky, has given approval for seismic testing off the coast of New Jersey. What does that mean? Well Rutgers University will be leading the 30 day test that involves a ship blasting waves from a boat down to the bottom of the ocean. How it works is a massive airguns blast massive sound waves roughly 100,000 times as intense as a jet engine. These sound waves are used to help discover oil and gas below the bottom of the ocean. The blasting will tell officials if potential offshore drilling could be a possibility in New Jersey.
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President Obama and his cronies have given the green light for this testing to begin. In an attempt to reverse the fate of countless marine mammals, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and several local conservation groups have issued a lawsuit against the plan. It is now New Jersey vs the Feds. Causes for the lawsuit include the effects that the tests will most likely have on the marine life, fishing industry, and potentially even the tourism industry. The threats from these tests are very real as seen in Peru where beaches became littered with dolphins soon after tests began...
All of this for oil? Not a big surprise, but at the same time... How can anyone be okay with blowing out the eardrums of these animals for something just about anyone I know never wants to see in New Jersey. Offshore oil drilling. Those three words. We've obviously seen what can happen with these drilling stations with what happened during the BP oil spill a few years ago. The gulf is still not the same since that spill. We do not want oil industries to be drilling off our shore. We do not want our beaches littered with dolphins and whales who've been killed in the search for oil. We want our oceans to remain healthy, and for once, I don't think any recreational or commercial fishermen would disagree with that statement and apparently neither does the state government of New Jersey. President Obama and Rutgers University read the following message from the animals you plan on destroying for greed.
The seismic testing was scheduled to start sometime this month, but that date is currently unknown with the Christie Administration attempting to block the whole project.


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Thank you for stopping by my blog today. An especially warm welcome to Snippet Sunday and Weekend Writing Warriors folks! This week, I'm sharing a from Swashbuckler, a contemporary romance. In honor of Mothers Day, my snippet shows a bit of the relationship between Rachel and her daughter, Angela. Following from last week, Rachel is still in Costa Rica on a book tour/vacation. In this scene she's on an overnight river-rafting trip while Angela is back in the U.S.
She went and sat down on a log by the fire, stretching her legs and hands out toward the flames–what she wouldn't do for a long stick with a marshmallow at the end. Smiling, she thought of her daughter and their last camping trip together. It had been just the two of them and together they'd erected the tent, laid out their sleeping bags, and started the camp fire with the bundle of wood they had purchased from the forest ranger station. They must have eaten a box of graham crackers and half a bag of marshmallows that night.
Angela would love it here.
Rachel looked up at the night sky, seeing the crescent moon behind a layer of clouds beginning to move in. Barely visible, she focused on the brightest star of Ursa Major. "If you see her, please tell Angela I love and miss her," she said. The star shimmered back, winking at the request.
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United Nations agencies are assisting people in Myanmar devastated by the country's worst storm in more than 30 years, which stirred 160- kilometer winds and left 140 people dead and some 18,000 others homeless.
Gunmen released five Lebanese who had been taken hostage alongside an unspecified number of people at an expatriate housing compound in the eastern Saudi city of al Khobar, the Lebanese ambassador to Saudi Arabia said.
At least five foreigners have been shot dead in the eastern Saudi city of Khubar, security sources have said.
He died in a distant land, friendless and a pauper, bitterly lamenting that he could not get even two fistfuls of earth in his beloved motherland for burial.
Iyad Allawi, a former member of Saddam Hussein's Baath party who worked with the CIA to topple him, was chosen as prime minister of Iraq on Friday in an announcement that caught U.S. and U.N. officials off guard.
The United States has called on the military junta in Myanmar to take immediate steps for the restoration of a broad-based, democratic government in the country and the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters from preventive detention.
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A question of this nature arises in everyone's mind, as the starting of the peace talks continues to be protracted and elusive, also there is no light at the end of the tunnel, despite the shuttle diplomacy of Norway and the peoples aspirations for a permanent peace in the country.
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I am personally associated with Jyotindra Nath (Mani) Dixit , former External Affairs Secretary, who took charge recently as the new National Security Advisor of India for a three-year term and he is expected to play a key role on issues related to nuclear, security and foreign policy of India.
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has yesterday released a statement condemning Amnesty International for describing human rights conditions in Sri Lanka as having improved.
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The two missing soldiers from the Weli Oya Sri Lanka Army camp Private J.M. Gamini Bandara and Recruit P.P.D. Sarath Gunasena who were missing since 26 May returned back to the camp by Friday 28 May, the Army said.
At least 12 people were killed and 80 others injured after a strong earthquake struck northern Iran on Friday.
The Delhi Tamil Assocaition Friday lauded DMK president M. Karunanidhi for his efforts to acquire classical language status for Tamil.
T.K.A. Nair was Friday appointed principal secretary to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Formalities regarding the repatriation of 3,000 of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in India are almost complete, Sri Lanka Deputy High Commissioner Sumith Nakandala said in Tamil Nadu Saturday.
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REPORT: Serial Child Molester Larry Nasser Attacked In Prison
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According to his court-appointed attorney, Jacqueline McCann, back in May Nassar was assaulted within hours of being released into the general population at the federal penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona.
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It is usually around this time of year that I begin listening to a lot of "winter music." I guess this kind of music takes a lot of different forms (from black metal to dark folk); however, in this blog post I'm going to concentrate on giving some links to what has been loosely termed "neoclassical" and postrock. I think these bands make great music for winter work, play, and writing. I don't mean that in the sense that they're great for work (i.e. they fade into the background); rather, I mean they are great for working – inspiring and pushing the writing process beyond where it might have been before. Anyhow, here's a sampling:
1. Message to Bears – Departures : This is the music of 24 year old Oxford, UK native Jerome Alexander. The music is acoustic with a very light smattering of electronic thrown in. This album sounds like folk. . . but the arrangements are larger – more cinematic, and defy a lot of description. A great release from Dead Pilot Records.
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2. Mósslonnrós – The Last Inch of Snow to Fall : You can download this lovely album here. While this one isn't necessarily neoclassical, it's certainly very good. Quiet blips, bleeps, and showers of white noise interweave with piano to create a great soundtrack for tundras. Mósslonnrós is the alter ego of Eurasia, a 20 something Japanese electronic musician currently signed with Portugal-based MiMi Records.
3. zxyzxy – C.A.B. : zxyzxy is the solo project of 20 something Seattle musician Greg Pappas. All of the music recorded under the name zxyzxy is available for full download in multiple formats (including FLAC) at his website. This album – though not his most recent – is a fantastic album for winter walks – but allow the walks to be long as each song clocks in around 15 mintues. Though this track isn't on C.A.B., you might get an idea about the music. . . .
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4. Balmorhea – All is Wild, All is Silent : This Austin, TX based folk/neoclassical outfit produces some really, really beautiful music. Signed to Western Vinyl, this 2009 release has a lot more going on than some of the bands earlier efforts (like 2007's eponymous release and 2008's Rivers Arms). If you're into lovely acoustics, haunting violin, and ethereality in your faux classical then you should check this album out.
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BANGKOK: -- Japan has banned ex-Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra from entering the country as he is a fugitive, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Thursday.
Abhisit did not say when Japan decided to blacklist Thaksin.
"I have received reports that Japan has decided to ban Thaksin from entering the country," he said.
Abhisit was speaking before departing to Tokyo for a three-day official visit.
Japan became the second country, after England, that banned runaway Thaksin, who was sentenced to two years in jail on corruption charges.
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ROFLMAO,,,,Oy,,,,Thaksin dont cry babe Japan is not your father.
Now he will repeat his lame, Japan will be sorry.
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It is about time more countries did this. It is one thing if he wants to live quietly in exile in a foreign country. But, he is putting his host country in an awkward position as he insists on playing politics in their backyard. Though, if he does become Prime Minister again in the future, it might affect future relations.Visit my Blogs: www.RichardBarrow.com & www.ThaiTravelBlogs.com or on Twitter @RichardBarrow @191Thailand
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of tables/pitches is not allowed. No table/pitch sharing is allowed.
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tables/pitches must be occupied during the fairs advertised opening times and tables/pitches may be re-let if they are not occupied 30 minutes before the advertised opening time. The fee will be forfeited. Leaving/packing before the advertised closing time is not permitted unless told to by the organiser.
8. Liability:
the Organiser (or his agent) is not laible for any damage or loss unless caused by their negligence. The person named on the registration form ('the crafter') agrees to indemnify the venue owner and/or organiser from any claim that may be made by any third party. You must have current Public Liability insurance and you are required to provide proof of this.
9. Tables/pitches:
the Company offers three options at most fairs. They are: a table in the marquee; a covered stall; or a pitch. You are required to ensure that you are fully aware of what you are booking, see table/pitch options on our website or if in doubt ask the organiser.
10. Litter:
any litter created by your attendance at our fairs is classed as 'trade waste', you are responsible for the removal of this litter, and we reserve the right to impose a charge if you do not comply with this.
11. Risk Assessment:
you may be required to provide a 'risk assessment'.
12. Statutory Requirements:
all 'crafters' are required to comply with current trading standards conditions, food hygiene, health and safety conditions. An electricity supply is not generally available, however if you use any electrical equipment you must have written approval from the organiser to do so, you must comply with all electrical equipment regulations. All 'crafters' will require Public Liability insurance cover. The company has Public Liability, Product Liability insurance, a Health and Safety policy and a fire evacuation policy.
13. Black Mark Policy:
We will be running a 'black mark' policy. Traders who fail to comply with any standards in number 14 will be issued a black mark. When a trader reaches 3 black marks all future bookings will be cancelled, any payments made will be refunded and they will be removed from our system. Black marks will remain on a traders account for 3 months if no further violations are made these will be removed.
14. Standards Policy:
to maintain and improve our fairs we ask all traders to adhere to the following to make it a fair environment for all. Failure to follow any of these will result in a black mark being issued:
a) all tables/stalls to have covering to the floor at the front of their display
b) no items to be allowed in walkways without prior consent
c) vehicles may be on site for unloading/loading only. They must not be on site whilst 'crafters' set up or pack away. Once you have unloaded you MUST remove your vehicle from the site. Likewise, stock MUST be packed away prior to your vehicle being back on site.
d) all 'crafters' displays will be monitored to compare what is being sold to what is on their booking form. Any issues found will be discussed prior to any black mark being issued.
e) Traders must take all their litter home, any trader found to be leaving ANY litter will be issued with a black mark.
f) floor standing displays must be within the booked area and if necessary an extra table space must be booked.
g) Traders must be 'set up' prior to the stated opening time (usually 10.00am). Any trader not doing this will be issued with a black mark.
h) All payments to be made at least 28 days in advance unless prior arrangement has been made. Failure to adhere to this will result in a black mark being issued and any arrangements for payments cancelled.
i) We kindly ask that ANY playing of music or any other types media is kept as personal as possible (earphones are a great thing!). Any trader found to be playing media at a 'non personal' level would be expected to hold a suitable PPL PRS licence. Any issues would put any future participation at our events in doubt.
j) In hot weather, any trader wishing to open the side panel of the marquee must obtain permission from the neighboroughing stall holder on each side and the Duty Manager. Panels are to be lowered to the first bungee from the top, this is to stop people reaching over into the marquee and removing a stall holders stock etc. The Duty Manager will then check that the marquee roof is securely fastened.
15. Tombolas:
Please note we dont allow ANY tombola's at any of our events. If you are seen to be operating a tombola from your stall any future bookings will be cancelled and future participation at our events will be forfeited. Any payments made will be refunded. Any charity collections MUST be agreed in advance.
16. Failure to Comply:
any breach or failure to comply with the above terms and conditions may lead to legal proceedings and/or exclusion from future events.
17. Privacy Policy:
We only hold certain information about each trader, name, Trading Name, Trading address, contact numbers and an email address. This information is only kept by us for contact and information purposes. It will never be passed on to a 3rd party unless legally instructed to do so. By agreeing to our terms and conditions you agree to us keeping this information. Should you ever wish to be removed from our database please inform us by email and we will remove you from our records within 48 hours.
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Later that day, as David arrived home from school Susan was there to greet him. "Hi honey," Susan said with a nervous grin. "How was your day?'
"Uh, fine, mom." David couldn't help but notice Susan, all dolled up in her tight-fitting blouse and skirt. David hadn't seen her look this good in a long time. He didn't ask or say anything, but he did notice, and Susan could tell. As he left for his room, Susan thought "He noticed. He checked out my legs."
Once in his room, David laid down on his bed to rest. It didn't take long for the thought of his mom's shapely legs to enter his mind. "Why was she wearing that skirt?" he thought. David figured maybe she'd gone out or something. That evening was like any other: Dinner, homework, TV. With Ted tucked away in his study jacking off again, Susan figured she'd turn in early. She put a night shirt on that came only half-way down her thighs. Coming into the living room she turned to David lying on the couch and said "I'm going to bed sweetie. Goodnight."
David turned and once again caught sight of those shapely white legs. "Uh, okay." he replied. Susan turned and left the room, but not without bending down, pretending to pick something up. David caught sight of his mom's back thighs and panty-covered ass! "Fuck!" he thought. This was way unusual! David retired to his room a little while later, unable to concentrate on the TV. He felt weird. Uncomfortable. David was no virgin, and appreciated good-looking legs like any other guy, but his mom's? He thought about her and what was happening. She did have a nice body, after all. And real nice legs. He even remembered his friends, Greg and Paul, making lewd remarks about his mom in the past. They loved his mom's legs and that she was so hot. They even wanted to fuck her! It pissed David off, but now he could see why they desired her so. He'd just never paid attention. It made him think: those thighs, her calves. Ten minutes later, David was breathing heavily, furiously fisting his hard cock as he shot his load up into the air and down on his belly and fist.
The next morning David was almost frantic to get to school. This whole thing had him feeling more than a little guilty. When he got home, walking up the front walk he was nervous. What might happen? As luck would have it, upon entering the house his mom wasn't home. David breathed a sigh of relief. He went up to his room and saw an envelope addressed to him. As he opened it, he pulled out several pages. It looked like one of those erotic stories he often found while surfing the net. It was called "How I Got My Son To Fuck Me," by The Devil's Advocate.
"Hey, I like the The Devil's Advocate's stories," David thought, but then reality hit. Looking once again at the title "How I Got My Son..." Shit! Fuck! Nervously David read the story of a horny mom named Sabrina, who desired her son's cock after catching him masturbating and went for it by wearing less and less clothing around the house until she seduced him. David's cock was hard as a rock and he quickly jerked-off until he came yet again. When David finished and put his clothes back on he heard the front door open.
"David? Are you home?" Nervously David left his room and entered the kitchen where his mom was. "Hi honey, could you help me put these things away."
"Uh, sure, mom." David immediately noticed Susan's tight tee-shirt accentuating her breasts and her tight bike shorts showing off those legs again but also her shapely ass. God, she was hot. His friends weren't so sick after-all.
Later that evening, after dinner, David was once again up in his room reading the story.
"I guess she wants me," he thought. "Sex must be pretty bad with dad, if she's this desperate." David thought and thought. What were the pluses and minuses. Well, on the plus side, his mom was a really good-looking woman: great legs, tits, blond. "Yeah she IS nice. An older woman, that would be a first. I'll bet she can fuck like a real slut," he thought. Hey, this was his mom he was thinking about! "Oh, don't be such a fucking prude!" he scolded himself. "She wants it, you want it, go for it!"
Entering into the kitchen, David noticed his mom sitting at the table, on the phone with Donna. "He just turned nineteen," Donna said. "I measured him, too. Nine and three-quarters inches!"
Meanwhile, David headed straight for the refrigerator wearing only a pair of tight bike shorts that he seldom wore. He couldn't look his mother in the eye but she noticed his muscular chest, and strong legs. She tried not to look down towards his crotch, but as David nerved himself to look his moms way he caught her eyes checking out the bulge in his crotch. He smiled to himself. "This is fun," he thought. As David took his coke and walked away, his mom watched his tight butt as he left.
"Wouldn't you like to try it just once?" Donna asked.
"Um, hmm," Susan moaned watching her son disappear. After she got off the phone with Donna, Susan felt desperate. "Was he teasing me, too? What now? What's going on?" She felt so horny yet so unsure and insecure. She felt like it was time to talk to David. She wanted to but didn't know how to present her needs and feelings. It was obvious he noticed her and liked what he saw. She wanted him, too. "Oh, to hell with that, My god! It's incest, shit!' He's old enough. He knows what he's doing. Hell, he started it!" Susan thought.
Summoning the nerve, Susan headed toward David's room. "Where's Ted?" she thought. "Yeah, your husband. Remember?" Once again locked away in the study. "The bastard," she thought. Shaking like a little girl in the cold, Susan came within a foot of David's door. Preparing to knock she then heard something.
"Oh, yeah. Fuck." David moaned. Was he...jerking off? Closing her eyes, gritting her teeth, Susan thought "One, two, three," and opened his door. She let out a gasp as she saw her son's right hand fly up and down his erect cock.
"Mom!" David yelled and tried to cover himself up.
"David, I'm sorry, I really am." He sat up in bed, half-naked and mortified. Closing her eyes for a moment, Susan summoned the nerve.
"Listen honey," she said softly, closing the door behind her and moving closer to the bed. "I know. You have needs. I do, too..."
He stared at her in her robe as if expecting something to happen. Swallowing hard, Susan untied her robe and let it fall to the floor. David's eyes bugged out of his head.
"Let me," Susan said. "Let me do it. Please? I want to."
Susan then sat on the bed beside her handsome son. Brushing his hair off his forehead, she moved her hand down over his cheek and onto his chest. Down past his navel it went and then she pulled back his blanket. His cock was semi-hard and slick with his precum. Susan exhaled and swallowed hard. There was no turning back. Susan took her son's cock in hand and it quickly grew hard. Susan smiled and let out a nervous laugh. David also laughed. She began tugging at his cock until it was rock hard. All of a sudden Susan felt calm but very excited. David, too. They both wanted this.
"Oh, yeah, mom," David moaned. "Jerk it. Make me cum."
"Do you like that? Hmmm?"
"Yeah, mom."
"Oooohh. I wanna fuck my baby boy!"
"Suck it mom. Please?"
"You bet, stud."
Susan lowered her mouth down over the cockhead and took her son's cock into her mouth. She loved the taste of him. Sucking his cockhead she moaned around it, swirling her tongue, loving the taste.
"Oh fuck. What about dad?" David said in a panic.
"Don't worry about him. He's working as usual." With that she returned to sucking her son's cock. Susan went all the way down, deep-throating him, leaving a wet, warm trail of saliva dripping down to his balls.
"Ooohh, mom!" David moaned. "So good!"
Susan sucked and fisted the cock until David couldn't hold out any longer. He groaned and said he was going to cum. Susan's fist flew up and down, her mouth covering his cockhead as it blew its hot, sticky sperm into her mouth. David's body and cock jerked, his voice moaning and groaning as his sexy mom took his sperm down her throat. Susan swallowed every drop of her son's juice as if it was water for a parched throat.
"Oh wow mom! That was great."
"Thank you sweetie," she said and lowered her lips to his. "Listen, I better go before your father comes out from his cave." Getting up to grab her robe she turned back to her son and asked, "Do you like my body?"
"Fuck yeah, mom."
Susan quietly swayed in place, her hands going to her breasts, tweaking her nipples. Then working down to her cunt, which David had never seen before. She rubbed her wet pussy for him and then turned around giving her son a look at her ass. Swaying to an unheard rhythm, Susan accentuated her asscheeks with her hands and then in a show of sluttiness, spread her asscheeks giving her son a look at her puckered asshole. Big mistake! David's cock came roaring back to life. Noticing this, she muttered "Oh shit."
David's eyes looked so hungry but she really had better go.
"Listen," Susan said putting on her robe. "Tomorrow you can stay home from school. Okay?"
As she left, closing his door, she looked him in the eye, not as his mother but as his lover. He looked greedily back. They were both so excited. Neither of them got much sleep


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Discover the new relevance of generations, the competitive advantage of generational diversity and three powerful strategies to engage the emerging generations.
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By Ryan Jenkins
ifty-two percent of workers say they're least likely to get along with someone from another generation, according to a recent poll by research and consulting firm, Frank N. Magid Associates. Generations represent one of the top diversity metrics likely to cause the type of workplace friction that leads to poor communication, decreased productivity and leadership miscues.
The friction across generations will intensify as 62 percent of Generation Z (those born after 1998) anticipate challenges working with older generations, according to research conducted by Robert Half and Enactus.
The generational gap between the established generations and the emerging generations will continue to grow until organizations gain better generational awareness and implement strategies to create more cohesion across their multigenerational workforce.
But before we get there, leaders must understand the age groups in the talent pool and the unique challenges they face.
Who Are the Generations
The idea of "social generations" was introduced in the 19th century. Social generations are cohorts of people who were born in the same date range, share similar cultural experiences and have been shaped by significant events or societal trends while coming of age. Prior to this concept, "generation" had generally referred to family relationships.
Government, the advertising industry and prominent authors have all had a hand in naming the generations; but in the case of the millennials, an entire generation had a hand in renaming their own generation from its original name of Generation Y. Ultimately, the naming of generations is arbitrary and typically takes time to evolve before becoming official.
Generations are clues, not absolutes. This is critical to keep in mind in conversations about different age groups. These clues inform how leaders should communicate and sell in today's modern workplace.
Emerging generations in the U.S. (Gen Y and Gen Z) have characteristics and behaviors that match their global peers, more so than previous generations. Millennials were the first generation to collapse the international divide across generations. Because millennials have been in communication (visually, audibly and/or in person) with their global peers as they've come of age, their communications and characteristics are very similar across the world.
Rising Generational Disparity and Tensions
There are a number of factors contributing to the growing disparity and tensions between generations. The better understanding of each generation and the external factors shaping the emerging generations leaders have, the better equipped they will be to effectively lead in 2018 and beyond.
First, the global average life expectancy of humans in 1900 was 31 years old. Today, the global average life expectancy of humans is 72 years old. The advances in medicine and technology have allowed us to live longer, and because we are living longer, we are working longer.
Leaders now may work, sell or communicate across four or five different generations on a daily basis, but they could soon work across six, seven or more age groups. The tensions they experience recruiting, training or working across generations will only intensify moving forward.
Common skills present among various generations also shift. According to Millennial Branding's "2015 Millennial Majority Workforce" study, 68 percent of hiring managers agree that millennials have skills that previous generations don't have.
For the first time in history, there are emerging generations that have knowledge and skills that previous generations don't possess. Millennials and Gen Z grew up teaching mom and dad or grandma and grandpa how to troubleshoot a computer, how to download apps or how to use social media.
They are the first generation that has entered the workplace ready to contribute using those unique skills. This is also one of the main reasons there was and continues to be so much workplace friction surrounding millennials.
Technology and the internet are arguably the biggest disruptors in history. It's changed how every generation lives, works and plays. No individual and industry are immune to its disruptive power.
To make matters more disruptive, the internet, mobile technology and social media all matured and converged on the largest generation on the planet (millennials) during their influential years and during a phase of life where they could experiment with new innovations.
Millennials' and Gen Z's values and behaviors are fundamentally different because they have been connected to the world's information and the world's largest amassed network of humans all while being empowered and encouraged to contribute.
When people lived in tribes and small villages, there wasn't a lot of new information that would alter their behaviors, values or expectations. The occasional discovery of a river, mountain range or a sleuth of bears would change behaviors, but any life-changing information was very infrequent. Back then, human behavior remained largely unchanged from generation to generation.
Today's emerging generations can be exposed to perspective-shifting images (ex: global terrorist attack), behavior-altering technologies (ex: smartphone) and expectation-shaping innovations (ex: Uber) in a single day.
The 24/7 awareness that the emerging generations have experienced via social networks, mobile technology and ubiquitous connectivity have caused each new generation to have different perspectives from the previous generations. And the typical generational time span of 15 to 20 years is likely to decrease due to today's abundant awareness.
Today's hyperconnected world and never-ending streams of information have instilled a constant appetite into the emerging generations for more, better, faster. The effortless and seamless experiences millennials and Gen Z have routinely encountered throughout their lives have become the new lens of expectations they carry into every brand and employer interaction. Thanks to connectivity, the emerging generations can efficiently and more easily job hop, learn anything, build a personal brand, work anywhere and anytime, shop on the go, launch a business or "side hustle," have a voice, crowdsource major decisions, instantly price compare, build a global network and more.
Every time technology makes a process or procedure more frictionless, it becomes the new expectation or standard for the generations who have never experienced what it was like before the innovation.
For example, the emerging generations might not remember a world where they can't speak to a smart object, like Amazon Echo's Alexa, to order a product and have it delivered to their front door within an hour via a drone. That world will always exist in their minds, and it will fundamentally shape how they expect goods and services to reach them. It will fundamentally shape how they eventually show up inside the workplace.
Because the world is changing at a rate humanity has never experienced, new innovations are imprinting and influencing the emerging generations at an unprecedented rate.
While these generational disparities are becoming more drastic, there is an upside.
The Competitive Advantage of Generational Diversity
It's nearly impossible to learn something new from someone who shares similar views or thinks in a similar way. Why is diversity so challenging for many organizations and leaders? Because it's more comfortable to be with people who think and act similarly. The confrontational aspect of different viewpoints is complicated and harder to manage.
Organizations that hire and promote the same kind of thinkers cap their potential. Like-minded teams maintain; diverse teams innovate.
More perspectives on a team lead to better decision-making. Perspective diversity can come in many shapes and sizes: backgrounds, personalities, gender, race and ethnicity, experience, thinking patterns, location, skills, leadership style and age.
Research shows that non-diverse teams are likely to apply a more uniform approach to problem solving, which ultimately dampens creativity and limits the solutions the team will try. A diverse team is better equipped to approach a problem from every angle, resulting in a better, more thought-through solution.
According to Anna Wittenberg, senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer at SAP, 85 percent of enterprises agree that diversity results in the most innovative ideas. Additionally, EY found that external organizations across industries that are rated highly for diversity and inclusiveness report 57 percent better team collaboration, 19 percent greater retention, are 45 percent more likely to improve market share and are 70 percent more likely to achieve success in new markets.
Millennials were the first generation to collapse the international divide across generations. Because millennials have been in communication (visually, audibly and/or in-person) with their global peers as they've come of age, their communications and characteristics are very similar across the world.
Millennials were the first generation to collapse the international divide across generations. Because millennials have been in communication (visually, audibly and/or in-person) with their global peers as they've come of age, their communications and characteristics are very similar across the world.
Millennials were the first generation to collapse the international divide across generations. Because millennials have been in communication (visually, audibly and/or in-person) with their global peers as they've come of age, their communications and characteristics are very similar across the world.
A diverse team provides the opportunity for the unique strengths of each team member to be leveraged. Each diverse team member will have strengths that can compensate for the shortcomings or blind spots of other team members.
Cognitive diversity is having a team of distinct people who have varying ways of thinking (experimental, analytical, logical, creative, etc.). Cognitive diversity fuels innovation, enhances employee engagement, boosts customer satisfaction (because diverse customers are represented internally) and drives business success in today's rapidly changing workplace.
One of the most valued forms of cognitive diversity in today's changeable world can be found in a multigenerational workplace. Because millennials and Gen Z fundamentally think and approach problem-solving differently than previous generations, generational diversity is a very powerful version of cognitive diversity.
With generations being one of the greatest diversities that divides employees, leaders must act intentionally to unite generations in order to reap the benefits of generational diversity.
Fostering an environment of respect, inclusion, open communication and freedom to create and implement ideas will help organizations capitalize on their generations' diverse cognitive power. Marrying previous generations' experience with millennials' and Gen Z's fresh perspectives will help future-proof organizations in the 21st century.
Up until now, companies have asked employees to adjust to the corporate culture, but Wittenberg encourages corporate cultures to "open up to being inclusive" and allow the uniqueness of each generation and the individual to influence the company culture.
A diverse workforce is better equipped to respond to today's high-flux and disruption-prone modern marketplace. Achieving cognitive diversity through a multigenerational team enables workers to ask better questions, be more effective and deliver improved experiences for employees or customers of all ages.
How to Engage Millennials and Gen Z at Work
Managers continue to be faced with the challenge of managing next-generation talent who have very distinct strengths, skills and approaches to work, communication and leadership.
How we work is changing fast. Faster than ever before. The emerging generations are big contributors to this acceleration, so implementing the right strategies to better attract, engage and retain millennials and Gen Z is critical, especially as 75 percent of the 2025 global workforce will be millennials and Gen Z.
Here are three powerful strategies for engaging the emerging generations:
1. Enhance the Employee Experience
An effective way to retain and engage millennials and Gen Z is by enhancing the employee experience, which can be defined as the impact an organization's processes, policies, perks and programs have on its people.
For the emerging generations who grew up in a world of abundance, their basic needs have been met, so they naturally look to fulfilling their higher needs. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, these would be love/belonging (social, love, family, team) and esteem (importance, recognition, respect). These are all benefits that can be delivered via carefully executed employee experiences.
Younger workers aren't interested in simply filling a job. Instead, they want meaning, strong company culture and extraordinary experiences at work. In fact, 75 percent of Gen Z want their work to have meaning, according to Monster's 2016 "Multi-Generational Survey."
Millennials and Gen Z look to corporations for job security less than more established generations. Instead, they recognize that their networks and skills will provide any stability they seek. This new shift redirects the responsibility of the organization to deliver a place where folks want to show up instead of where they have to.
2. Deliver Sufficient Training
The No. 1 factor millennials consider when starting a new job is sufficient training, according to a survey of 1,500 millennials conducted by the software firm Qualtrics and venture capital firm Accel Partners. Additionally, roughly 80 percent of millennials said that an emphasis on personal growth is the most important quality of a company's culture.
Training — rather than company culture, workplace flexibility, salary or company perks — is what millennials want most when starting a new job and what they use to evaluate whether or not they made the right employer choice. Gen Z shares millennials' affinity for training, as 84 percent of new Gen Z graduates expect to receive formal, on-the-job training.
3. Trade Managing for Coaching
Gen Z's ability to fact check their teachers and parents in real time on their smartphone represents a clear shift in authority.
Because information is disseminated so widely in today's age of information, Gen Z and many millennials don't consider parents or teachers as the authority, but, rather, they view the internet as the authority.
Having access to an internet-enabled computer in the palm of their hand for most of their lives has caused the emerging generations to problem-solve much differently than previous generations. They have become extremely resourceful and efficient at using the web to find the answers they need.
Millennials and Gen Z will turn to Google, YouTube or Alexa first for answers instead of their future managers. Therefore, managers must adjust their approach and serve as guides where they coach the emerging generations through their self-directed learning, mistakes and successes.
Coaching is also effective because it creates greater buy-in, as the next-generation employee is arriving at the solution either individually or collectively with the coach.
The most effective coaching happens when leaders prioritize curiosity over instruction. Resist the urge to give advice and instead give in to asking more questions.
Ryan Jenkins is an author, speaker and trainer who helps organizations lead, engage and sell to emerging generations. He's also a partner at 21Mill.com. To comment, email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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National Academic Depository (NAD) is an important initiative of Government of India facilitated by Ministry of Human Resource Development to facilitate issuance, storage and access of academic awards in an online depository system on the pattern of Securities Depository.
Academic Institutions, Students and Verification Users (Employers, Banks, Consulates, Academic Institutions) are the main stakeholders in NAD system. MHRD has appointed NSDL Database Management Limited to operate the NAD system as a Depository.
NAD aspires to make the vision of Digital Academic Certificates for every Indian a reality. This touches the lives of Indian youth and empowers them with Digital, Online, Trusted, Verifiable Certificates which are accessible in a secure manner at all times. NAD promises to do away with difficulties / inefficiencies of collecting, maintaining, and presenting physical paper certificates. NAD is not only a database copy of the certificate records for Academic Institutes but a complete system for Issuing Online Certificates to Well Identified and Registered Students. It will be an active online place for Students, Academic Institutes and Verification Users. NAD brings in deterrence factor for people who wish to think that paper certificates can be easily forged / created and as verification processes are costly and inefficient they can use the arbitrage. By doing so it also brings trust and credibility to genuine certificate holders and makes their certificates trusted and easily accepted.
NAD will develop an online portfolio of all education certificates which can be submitted easily for employment, higher education, and loan and are easily trusted and verified. NAD integrates directly with Boards / Universities which issue Certificates and hence ensure Authenticity of Certificate Records.
Important services that NAD will provide:
NAD is an initiative of MHRD to provide Academic Certificates in digital format to students which are available for 24/7 online access to the students. This is an initiative under "Digital India" program to empower the students with online, permanent access. The certificates are digital and verifiable and hence are easily trusted by all users. NAD is a significantly beneficial initiative for students.
In such a case, you can visit Aadhaar enrolment centre and apply for Aadhaar or update your mobile number in your Aadhaar record.
However, if you are not able to enrol for Aadhaar or update your mobile number, NAD facilitates you to register by declaring your details and create the registration. NAD will give you NAD ID, which can be used by you thereafter for logging in to NAD. This NAD ID will need to be verified by an Academic Institution participating in NAD.
NAD will make all your certificates which are lodged by participating academic institutes available in your online NAD account. You can access all the certificates at all times.
Following needs to be ensured for this:
NAD Portal will maintain a list of all Academic Institutions which are participating in NAD system. Please refer to same.
NAD is a Government of India initiative and is being made available across the country. This would greatly increase the security, authenticity and verifiability of the certificates and bring "Trust" factor for genuine certificates.
Yes you can request a printed certificate through NAD system.
NAD system provides significant operational and technical safeguards to ensure that certificate accuracy is ensured. Academic Institution directly upload and lodge the records in NAD system after conducting thorough verification of certificate records and digitally signing the records being lodged.
However, if you ever find some discrepancy in your digital certificates, NAD will facilitate you to lodge a grievance so that same can be taken up with concerned academic institution for verification / rectification.
NAD framework respects privacy of the data and records of each person. Certificates can be accessed only by the student to whom it belongs (as identified by the lodging academic institution). Other Verification users as are specifically authorised by the student can also access the certificate record.
If some employer requests for a verification of your certificate record, NAD will notify you by sending you Email / SMS on your registered details. You can then log-in to your account, review the details of the request and approve / reject the same.
Yes, you have to provide the approval / rejection for the same within reasonable time. Presently the same is fixed at 7 days.
If you do not accord approval / rejection within reasonable time, the request is considered as infructuous and becomes ineffective.
Yes. You can choose to allow verification only for some of the awards held by you.
Student cannot upload award of this nature as only AI will be able to upload and lodge awards in NAD. The student can ask NAD for retrieval of an existing award and share it with Verifier.


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I know that gardeners know the importance about pulling up weeds. But I'm a bit of a novice at this gardening lark. You may have read that an unknown/ unexpected plant I unearthed and dug up last year, turned out to be my forgotten potato crop.
My 'gardener' (aka Dad) came around today. So I took the opportunity to ask him about some of the unexpected growth in my front window box. I wondered whether it was curious surprising plant that had sprung up from a seed hidden within his rich compost he'd put down. But no, not this time. He took one look at it and said, "that's grass." I really haven't got a clue.
Then he showed/ told me to trace it down to the soil and pull out the root. He did a few and then I rummaged around and dug out the rest after work. Now I have heard the adage that there's no such thing as a weed, only a plant in an unwanted place. And with my growing appreciation of wildflowers, I'm all for that. … Apart from something else my Dad said.
I mentioned that I'd planted some rocket and spinach seeds in there. He advised that you'd want to get rid of all the grass/ weeds. Because the rocket needs a lot of light. The weeds were crowding out the space. So I as aware of this as I pulled out the weeds, roots and all (well not entirely, it was a bit of a hash job, I must admit). But it reminded me of that verse in Hebrews, "See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many." Pulling up weeds and their roots can be analogous to life- it's not a new thing!
If there's important stuff in your life (analogy here with the rocket seeds I'd planted), it's important to give them enough space. To cut out the unwanted, unnecessary in your life if possible, to make room for that which is important. I'm kind of going on the "less is more" life lesson phase again at the moment. The grass may be pretty and all very good. There might be countless opportunities and good things/ nice things/ enjoyable things that you could be doing in life. But if they are crowding out that which needs to be nurtured, developed, focussed on, (the rocket here), then don't be afraid about being ruthless in letting go.
In the recycling bin today has gone an invite to a do I decided to turn down, because I can't do everything, I need to conserve my energies for particular things. (One book I've nearly finished but ironically been to 'busy' to read for the last year or so, has been this one. Tis good, I recommend, especially if reading Christian books is your thing!) Next task, fine tuning what are the rocket seeds in life to focus on and nurture. And not be scared to get rid of the dross.


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Police picked up 11 United Party for National Development (UPND) members of Parliament (MPs) and four journalists for unlawful assembly and conduct likely to cause breach of peace on December 20, 2004.
Police spokesperson, Brenda Muntemba said several people were picked up after the fracas but after scrutiny 68 were warned and cautioned.
Ms Muntemba said at a Press briefing in Lusaka that police were concerned that the assembly was illegal because the notice was faulty.
She said she wondered why the people who organised the demonstration ignored advice that they write to Lusaka Province commanding officer who is the regulating officer.
On the beating of journalists, Ms Muntemba said she could not comment because they had decided to take the matter to court.
She explained that police used force because one of the journalists punched a police officer.
But journalists present at Ms Muntemba's briefing refuted the allegation that one of the journalists had punched a police officer.
Ms Muntemba also denied reports that police were selective in the manner in which they arrested people staging demonstrations.
Source: allafrica.com
About Zambia
Early History to the Nineteenth Century
Zambia's history goes back to the debut of Homo sapiens: evidence of human habitation going back 100,000 years has been found at Kabwe, north of Lusaka. Beginning around 1000 AD, Swahili-Arab slave-traders gradually penetrated the region from their city-states on the eastern coast of Africa. Between the 14th and 16th centuries a Bantu-speaking group known as the Maravi migrated from present-day Congo (Zaïre) and established kingdoms in eastern and southeastern Zambia.
In the 18th century, Portuguese explorers following the routes of Swahili-Arab slavers from the coast into the interior became the first known European visitors. After the Zulu nation to the south began scattering its neighbors, victims of the Difaqane (forced migration) began arriving in Zambia in the early 19th century. Squeezed out of Zimbabwe, the Makalolo people moved into southern Zambia, pushing the Tonga out of the way and grabbing Lozi territory on the upper Zambezi River.
The Colonial Period
The Scottish explorer David Livingstone first came to the area that is now Zambia in 1851; he visited Victoria Falls in 1855, and in 1873 he died near Lake Bangweulu. In 1890 agents of Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Company signed treaties with several African leaders, including Lewanika, the Lozi king, and proceeded to administer the region. The area was divided into the protectorates of Northwestern and Northeastern Rhodesia until 1911, when the two were joined to form Northern Rhodesia.
The mining of copper and lead began in the early 1900s. By 1909 the central railroad from Livingstone to Ndola had been completed and about 1,500 Europeans had settled in the country. In 1924 the British took over the administration of the protectorate. In the late 1920s extensive copper deposits were discovered in what soon became known as the Copperbelt, and by the late 1930s about 4,000 European skilled workers and some 20,000 African laborers were engaged there. The Africans protested the discrimination and ill treatment to which they were subjected by staging strikes in 1935, 1940, and 1956. They were not allowed to form unions but did organize self-help groups that brought together persons of diverse ethnic backgrounds.
In 1946 delegates from these groups met in Lusaka and formed the Federation of African Welfare Societies, the first protectorate-wide African movement; in 1948 this organization was transformed into the Northern Rhodesia African Congress. In the early 1950s, under the leadership of Harry Nkumbula, it fought strenuously, if unsuccessfully, against the establishment of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1953–63), which combined Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and Nyasaland (now Malawi). The booming copper industry had attracted about 72,000 whites to Northern Rhodesia by 1958, and the blacks there experienced increasing white domination.
Independence and Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda, a militant former schoolteacher, took over the leadership of the Africans from the more moderate Nkumbula and in 1959 formed a new party, the United National Independence Party (UNIP). Following a massive civil disobedience campaign in 1962, Africans were given a larger voice in the affairs of the protectorate. On 24 October 1964 Northern Rhodesia became independent as the Republic of Zambia, with Kaunda as its first president; he was reelected in 1968 and 1973. The main problems faced by Kaunda in the first decade of independence were uniting Zambia's diverse peoples, reducing European control of the economy, and coping with white-dominated Southern Rhodesia (which unilaterally declared its independence as Rhodesia in November 1965).
European economic influence in Zambia was reduced by increasing the number of trained Zambians, by diversifying the country's economy, and (from 1969) by the government's acquisition of a 51% interest in most major firms (especially mining and banking companies). Separatist sentiment continued into the 1970s.
Zambia joined Great Britain and other countries in applying economic sanctions against white-ruled Rhodesia in 1965. It discontinued transporting goods via rail through Rhodesia to the seaport of Beira in Mozambique. Instead, overseas trade items were transported to and from the seaport of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, by plane and by truck (via the Great North Road). A petroleum pipeline between Dar-es-Salaam and Ndola was opened in 1968, and, with the help of China, the Great Uhuru (Tanzam or Tazara) Railway connecting Dar-es-Salaam and Zambia was opened in 1975. In addition, the country halted imports of coal (used especially in the copper industry) from Rhodesia; mining in southern Zambia increased until it supplied most of the country's needs. The Rhodesian army pressured Zambia to lift the sanctions by destroying parts of Zambia's transportation network. Zimbabwean independence was finally won in 1980. Throughout the 1970s Kaunda had combined his support of liberation movements in Rhodesia as well as Angola, Mozambique, and South Africa with the encouragement of diplomatic solutions—the approach favored by the West.
Beginning in the late 1960s Kaunda faced formidable opposition from political and student groups protesting the growing concentration of power in his hands. In 1972 all political parties except UNIP were outlawed and Zambia became a one-party state. Kaunda's frequent shuffling of the cabinet prevented a strong political rival from emerging, and he ran for reelection unopposed in 1978.
During the 1970s, the economic sanctions against Rhodesia and a drop in copper prices had put Zambia's economy under severe strain. In the 1980s, as a condition for future aid, Kaunda was forced by foreign creditors to introduce economic austerity measures. Shortages of basic goods, cuts in food subsidies, and unemployment led to rioting and strikes. Meanwhile, popular calls were heard for multiparty rule. In 1986, South Africa launched raids against Zambia and other neighboring countries, targeting camps that were suspected of being used by the African National Congress.
A New Regime
In 1990 another round of austerity measures sparked more unrest, and Kaunda was the target of a coup attempt. In the same year the constitution was amended to allow opposition parties. In 1991 Frederick Chiluba, a trade unionist who promised both political and economic reform for Zambia, overwhelmed Kaunda in the presidential election, and Chiluba's Movement for Multiparty Democracy party (MMD) won the majority of seats in the parliament. A coup allegedly plotted by the opposition led to a brief state of emergency in 1993.
Chiluba's economic reforms, including plans for privatizing the copper industry, initially resulted in better relations with foreign-aid donors, and economic conditions improved somewhat, but Zambia continued to be burdened by a large international debt. Chiluba was reelected in 1996, after parliament passed a constitutional amendment preventing Kaunda from running again. Following a 1997 coup attempt, Chiluba again declared a state of emergency. Numerous opposition leaders and military officers were arrested, including Kaunda, who was freed in 1998 and announced his intention to retire from politics.
By the end of the 20th century, the standard of living in Zambia was about half what it had been in the mid-1960s, before copper prices began falling. Unemployment and inflation were high, and the country was threatened by the unprecedented prevalance of deadly AIDS/HIV infections. In May 2001 Chiluba abandoned a bid for a third term in office; it would have required changing the constitution's two-term limit. Chiluba's attempt to change the constitution had provoked a political crisis, both within the country and within his own party.
Despite electorate fears that Chiluba would find a way around the two-terms rule to stay on as president, he was replaced at the December 2001 elections; however, his ruling party, the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), was not. Chiluba's personally selected president-elect Levy Mwanawasa won the vote, amid claims from opposition parties that the election was rigged. The legality of the election results has been challenged and as of early February 2002, Mwanawasa's government is in an uncertain position; although a High Court challenge for an election recount was denied and opposition parties blocked legislative process in the National Assembly. In addition to a lack of parliamentary support, key issues facing Chiluba's replacement are economic problems in the mining and agriculture industries, in particular a grain shortage that is apparently having widespread effects among the population.
Despite the political chaos, the election, however flawed, returned one of the most broadly based democratic parliaments the country has seen, with the United Party for National Development (48 seats) and United National Independent Party (11 seats), among other opposition parties, putting an end to the rubber-stamp, one-party system that has ruled since independence. Visitors to Zambia should keep an eye on political developments and any civil unrest that may accompany it.
There are about 35 different ethnic groups or tribes in Zambia, all with their own languages. Main groups and languages include Bemba in the north and centre, Tonga in the south, Nyanja in the east, and Lozi in the west. English is now the national language and is widely spoken, even in remote areas. About two-thirds of the population is Christian, though many combine that with traditional animist beliefs. A lot of traditional Zambian music is heavily rhythmic, usually played on drums, whistles and thumb pianos, and nearly always to accompany dancing. One of the most popular styles, however, is an import from the Congo (Zaïre) – the rumba.
The staple dish in Zambia is a stiff porridge called nshima, commonly made from maize or sometimes sorghum. It's typically served in a communal dish and eaten with the right hand, rolling the nshima into a ball and dipping it into a sauce of meat or vegetables. In areas along rivers and lake shores, fish are also eaten. Popular freshwater types include bream, lake salmon and Nile perch.
Zambia's current population is estimated at 10,462,436; estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS, which can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2004 est.
It is estimated (2003 est.) that 1.8 million adult Zambians are living with the AIDS virus and that 170,000 per year die from the disease.
Religious groups are as follows: Christian 50%-75%, Muslim and Hindu 24%-49%, indigenous beliefs 1%.
The capital is Lusaka. There are 9 provinces; Central, Copperbelt, Eastern, Luapula, Lusaka, Northern, North-Western, Southern, Western
Despite progress in privatization and budgetary reform, Zambia's economic growth remains below the 5% to 7% necessary to reduce poverty significantly. Privatization of government-owned copper mines relieved the government from covering mammoth losses generated by the industry and greatly improved the chances for copper mining to return to profitability and spur economic growth. However, low mineral prices have slowed the benefits of privatizing the mines and have reduced incentives for further private investment in the sector. Cooperation continues with international bodies on programs to reduce poverty.
Copper mining and processing, construction, foodstuffs, beverages, chemicals, textiles, fertilizer, horticulture. Agricultural products include corn, sorghum, rice, peanuts, sunflower seed, vegetables, flowers, tobacco, cotton, sugarcane, cassava (tapioca); cattle, goats, pigs, poultry, milk, eggs, hides; and coffee.
Major export products are copper 55%, cobalt, electricity, tobacco, flowers, cotton and the major export partners for Zambia are U.K. 26.7%, South Africa 21.6%, Tanzania 13.9%, Switzerland 8.1% (as of 2003).
Source: eyesonafrica.net


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A friend of mine was going to have a baby, and I offered to create the baby card.
I knew they liked dinosaurs so I decided that was my best starting point. After creating a couple of sketches and trying them out in different mediums I realised that digital was going to work out best for this job. I worked it out on paper first and then scanned it in and finished the colouring in Photoshop.