Tag: Zambia

Ambassador Ofra Farhi was crossing a street in Lusaka when a motorist drove up alongside her, grabbed her bag, and dragged her off her feet.

Mutombo, who played 18 seasons for the NBA, spearheaded and helped fund the creation of the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital in 2007 – the first modern medical facility to be built in decades on the outskirts of his hometown, the Congolese capital of Kinshasa.  

Sheba Medical Center trains doctors from Nigeria, Zambia, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Uganda, Tanzania, and Niger.

This will be the first official visit by an Israeli defense minister to the continent in decades.

'In seizing the future, Israel is coming back to Africa in more than a verbal way,' Netanyahu promised.

Last week the Netanyahu cabinet passed a $13 million plan to strengthen economic links and cooperation with African countries.