The Food and Agriculture Organization says it will be difficult for Zambia to meet sustainable agriculture production with inadequate funding to the agriculture sector. FAO Country Representative Dr George Okech said Zambia’s funding to the sector is still way below the Maputo declaration which requires about 10 percent of the budget to be allocated to […]
Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya has revealed that a case of Poliomyelitis has been recorded in Chienge, Luapula Province. Dr Chilufya said the case involves a two-year-old boy of Kalima Village who developed weakness in both lower limbs on the 16th of July, 2019. And the Minister said on further investigations, it has been discovered that […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Malanji is expected in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, to attend a two-day 18th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Heads of State and Government Summit. Zambia’s Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan, Joseph Chilengi said Mr Malanji will represent President Edgar Lungu at the summit scheduled for October 25 to October 26, […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Finance Minister Bwalya Ng’andu said the Government is on course with the economic reform and transformation agenda despite the country’s power supply and fiscal space constraints. The Minister was making a presentation to Zambia’s financial asset investors on the sidelines of the 2019 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE The founder of A-Z global cell phones has committed suicide by hanging himself with an electrical iron cable in his bedroom. Copperbelt Police Commissioner Charity Katanga told The Independent Observer that Nason Mwanza committed suicide by hanging himself with an electrical iron cable from the cap rose in the roof of the […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE The Rainbow Party is disappointed in the manner the PF government is handling electoral violence in the country. Rainbow Party National Spokesperson Dennis Kapukulo said the party considers electoral violence as dangerous with potential to plunge the country into civil unrest. Mr Kapukulo said the ruling party must take the violence seriously […]
The matter in which National Democratic Congress (NDC) party President Chishimba Kambwili is charged with forgery, uttering false documents and giving false information to a public officer has failed to take off in the Lusaka Magistrates Court. The matter was scheduled for possible continued trial or setting of dates but has been adjourned because the […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Five people have died while 12 others sustained serious injuries when a vehicle they were in hit into the stationary vehicle. The fatal road accident happened when the driver of the Mitsubishi Rosa failed to control the vehicle due to excessive speed hit in to the stationary vehicle. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo […]
By Staff Writer Lusaka Deputy Mayor, Christopher Shakafuswa says despite the challenges faced by the informal food markets,they offer crucial opportunities for livelihoods and income generation. Mr Shakafuswa said lack of access to capital, credit, spoilage as a result of storage and competition from import markets are but some of the problems faced by traders […]
By Stuff Writer South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has described Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa Major General Jackson Miti as an esteemed representative of the country whom he is looking forward to working with. President Ramaphosa said the presence of Gen Miti in South Africa was a clear confirmation that his country had friends […]
Alice Nachilembe
