This comes after Talk Radio 702 on Thursday announced the death of President Mwanawasa. This was followed up with similar stories in South African national papers; the Star newspaper's afternoon front page was headlined "Stroke kills Zambian president". These accounts have now been removed from Independent Newspapers' online editions.

In the Sapa/I-Net Bridge report, Mulongoti said that President Mwanawasa is alive and in a stable condition at a hospital in Paris, France. He appealed to SA media to restrain such falsified coverage as its causing much stress to the people of Zambia.

For more:

• M&G Online: Reports of Mwanawasa's death greatly exaggerated
  
• SABCNews: Zambia denies President Mwanawasa is dead
  
• IOL: False death reports cover globe
  
• IOL: Mwanawasa's death report 'exaggerated'

[3 Jul 2008 18:19]

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