BRITISH High Commissioner to Zambia Nicholas Woolley says the UK government is expanding its long standing support to Zambia’s Social Cash Transfer Scheme. Woolley says the UK government will also provide K230 million additional support to the most vulnerable as an emergency drought cash payment. And Minister of Information and Media Cornelius Mweetwa says government will soon announce a roadmap of specific steps towards the actualisation of the Access to Information law. Speaking when he paid a courtesy call on the minister at his office recently, Woolley said the temporary expansion of the programme would support six million Zambian’s who had been affected by the drought. “The UK is expanding its long standing support to the Zambia social cash transfer...

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