ACTIONAID Country Director Faides Tembatemba says the country needs to stop depending on foreign aid when it comes to its lifesaving social programming. Tembatemba also says government needs to be transparent and provide clear information on the stage negotiations have reached regarding the US$1.5 billion health sector pledge. Last week, the New York Times reported that the US State Department was considering withholding lifesaving HIV assistance to Zambia as a negotiating tactic to force the signing of a deal giving the United States more access to Zambia’s critical minerals. However, the US government, through its Senior Bureau Official for the Bureau of African Affairs, Nick Checker, dismissed the report as fake news, stating that it was not seeking anything against...