Playing against a Zambia side consisting of 10 of the 11 which had won the competition in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea last year, Ethiopia started in impressive fashion and came agonizingly close to scoring.
Lawyers for Zambia, however, said the judgement was a victory for Zambia.
Yet - within less than a year of that disaster - Zambia fielded a new team that faced Nigeria in the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations Final - and lost by just 2-1.
It quotes a review in Zambia which found that between 2005 and 2009, 500, 000 copper mine workers were paying a higher rate of tax than major multinational mining firms.
The win booked Zambia a semi-final spot against Zimbabwe in the annual event for teams from southern Africa.
This makes Zambia a very different story from Zimbabwe, where the opposition is united behind just one candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai.
The squad will then break for the holiday season and re-group on 5 January, with a game against Zambia six days later.
Today is a day for Zambia to celebrate their democratic achievement.
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In fact, he had just been arrested on what looked to be dubious political charges when I met him last August on a visit to Zambia.
Not just for productivity, but as we recently learned from a study in Zambia, there can be large developmental consequences of early childhood exposure to malaria.
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In June of 1995, a health worker in a tiny town in Zambia went to the Web site of the Centers for Disease Control and got the answer to a question about the treatment of malaria.
It crashed into a lorry - and according to Zambia's information minister Kennedy Sakeni a sports utility vehicle was also involved in the crash, the Associated Press news agency reported.
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Mogas 90 of Benin Republic earned a slim 1-0 win over Al Nassr of Libya, Sudan's El Mereikh got a similar home win over Zambia's Green Buffaloes, while Saint Louis of Seychelles earned a 2-2 draw with Madagascar's Transfoot.
Zambia is a largely stable democracy, though some violence flares up during elections, correspondents say.
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This prompted the Sports Council of Zambia, a government body, to set up a committee to investigate FAZ.
Zanzibar held guest side Zambia to a goalless draw in normal time and the game then went straight to spot kicks.
The idea for Zambikes first surfaced in 2004 when two young Americans, Vaughn Spethmann and Dustin McBride, visited Zambia on a six-week university field trip.
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Mulonga said the lack of suitable infrastructure in Zambia is a result of the country's failure to stage international events like the African Nations Cup.
Celebrity economist Jeffrey Sachs, then at Harvard and now director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, started thinking about health care after a business trip to Zambia in 1995.
Barrick acquired Equinox in 2011 and with it came Jabal Sayid, a project in construction in Saudi Arabia, and Lumwana with a producing mine in Zambia.
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And while my friends claim I often read too much into the meaning of sporting events, I have been beaming with the rest of southern Africa at the emergence of Zambia as a fully fledged African gladiator on the football field.
Elsewhere in the African qualifying zone Egypt recorded a 1-0 win over Zambia in their Group C clash in Konkola to potentially set up a deciding match with Algeria in Cairo next month.
Gemfields owns a majority stake of the Kagem mine in Zambia, which produces emeralds and amethysts, a mine in Mozambique for ruby, and prospecting licenses for other gemstones in Madagascar.
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They will also meet Zambia away in a potentially key group match in October.
Helen Blackburn, Whitehill's commercial manager, worked as a volunteer in Lusaka, Zambia, for over three years.
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Transparency International, a corruption watchdog, ranks Zambia among the ten worst offenders of the 90 countries it monitors.
Senegal and Togo are tied on ten points apiece, as are Zambia courtesy of a 3-2 win over Congo in Brazzaville.
Herman also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia where he helped rural communities develop clean water and hygiene education programs.
To earn the foreign exchange needed to pay for imports and to service debts, reliance on a single commodity (like Zambia's copper) is just too risky.
The Gates Foundation wants Zambia to be a model to show that an African country can significantly reduce the number of its citizens who die each year from malaria.
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