Centre for Environment Justice (CEJ) has urged Government to promote community private partnerships in forest resource management to curb unsustainable charcoal production and encroachments in forest areas. CEJ Head of Programmes Ricky Kalaluka said that Government should promote community private partnerships agenda in order to leverage financial resources for private sector investments in community forestry. […]
By Mercy Chewe Kitwe’s Nkana Golf Club is excited that seven junior golfers at its Academy have been selected to represent Zambia at the All-Africa Junior Golf Challenge tournament in Egypt this month-end. The boys and girls, drawn mostly from Kitwe’s Kandabwe Township, flew out of the country on Thursday, 24th March 2022 for the […]
…a system that has been lacking in many organisations. By Rev Clifford Chisha Most of the fatalities we experience as organisations and individual leaders do give warning signs way before their occurrence. Both lack of a leader’s early danger detection ability and organisation’s deliberate early danger detection systems have contributed to a lot of fatalities. […]
By CLOZZEN BIKALE The Parliamentary Committee on Local Government Accounts has guided Mufumbwe Town Council to enhance its work relationship with the area Member of Parliament to speed up development and avoid unnecessary bureaucracy. Committee Chairperson Darius Mulunda said Members of Parliament can help to speed up development processes where councils may be constrained. Mr […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE The Inspector General of Police Lemmy Kajoba has warned Traffic Police Officers against mounting up snap road Traffic checkpoints across the country as they are till suspended. Mr Kajoba said he has noted with concern that the non-compliance of traffic officers to the earlier directive by government and the Minister of Home […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Chingola Member of Parliament Chipoka Mulenga has given Copper Investment Mines (CIM) a two weeks ultimatum to ensure that they provide safe drinking water to the people of Kankoko area. CIM polluted the water in Kankoko by discharging effluents in the river, which is the only source of water in the area. […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Chingola Member of Parliament Chipoka Mulenga, has Challenged Mimbula Mine resources to give Chingola people priority as they employ workers. Mr Mulenga said that the people around Chingola should benefit from the resources not only outsiders. He was speaking when he met with management after he received complaints from residents that they […]
The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit (AMLIU) in Lusaka has arrested Kwacha Constituency Member of Parliament for money laundering activities involving K10 million and $700,000.00. Mr Joseph Malanji 56, residing at Plot Number 179 Acacia Road, Roma Park, in Lusaka, has been arrested for being in possession of property reasonably […]
The Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested a Chingola woman for being in possession of K880, 000.00 reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime. Sylvia Chongo Mutale Banda aged 52 of House Number 11 Gandhi Road, Chingola has been arrested and charged with one count of possession of property suspected of being proceeds of crime contrary to […]
In the outskirts of Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, just beyond where paved roads transition to dirt, an undiagnosed polio infection paralysed a three-year-old girl. From one day to the next, the child’s life was changed forever. Among Africa’s public health community, we had looked at our successes against wild poliovirus as a cause for optimism. In […]
Alice Nachilembe
