- Finance Minister Felix Mutati says all capital projects that were not budgeted for in the 2017 national budget will not be taken.
- First Quantum Minerals says its support and training in conversation farming has helped avert attacks from the army worms that destroyed over 90 thousand hectares of Zambia’s maize crop in the country.
- Masaiti Acting District commissioner Evans Mambwe has disclosed that over enrollment at the 3 secondary boarding has brought to the four challenges of lack of bed spaces.
- The Eastern Province development symposium yesterday officially opened in Chipata.