PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says his Qatar trip has attracted a number of tangibles which will be of benefit to the country. Speaking shortly after arriving in the country, Thursday, President Hichilema insisted that there was need for the country to graduate from the least developed country status. “I think essentially we went away to attend Least Developed Countries’ Conference, that is number one. I think the issue there is that there is need for Least Developed Countries to work on their own and also as a group to accelerate development, to really graduate from the least developed country. It is also recognised that climate change, COVID-19, instability in our areas, Africa, in Europe, Ukraine, is exerting a little bit of...

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