Zambia has recorded positive strides in public health despite drought – Masebo
HEALTH Minister Sylvia Masebo says Zambia is making positive strides in public health despite the severe drought which has negatively impacted food security, access to water, electricity, and health service delivery. Speaking at the Seventy-Seventh World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, Masebo said the achievements in the health sector were made possible through the strong…...
Tayali reflects on his K450,000 compensation: It wasn’t a handsome reward
TRANSPORT and Logistics Minister Frank Tayali says he would have received more than K450,000 in compensation had he chosen to continue with the trial in which he was seeking damages for assault. And Tayali boasts that he has overseen several good policy shifts in the aviation sector, such as ensuring the reduction of landing and…...
I’ll be tougher now, you divide people, police visit you, warns HH
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has warned that going forward, he will be tougher on anyone who wants to divide Zambians, saying police will surely visit anyone who issues tribal remarks. And President Hichilema says “buwelewele (it is nonsensical)” for a member of parliament to utter words which are aimed at diving the people. Speaking when he…...
LAZ condemns some MPs for uttering divisive statements
THE Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) says it is alarmed by recent statements from some opposition Members of Parliament which border on creating divisions on tribal and regional lines. And UPND Secretary General Batuke Imenda has lamented that opposition political leaders want to make statements in order to provoke government into moving to arrest them…....
Falling rocks crush illegal miner
A 30-YEAR-OLD illegal miner has died after a rockfall while conducting mining at Mukula Mine in Lufwanyama District. Outgoing Copperbelt Police Commissioner Peacewell Mweemba has identified the deceased as Besodiah Zimba from Mukutuma Chiefdom in Lufwanyama. He explained that while in the company of other illegal miners, the deceased was extracting earth in search of…...
Lungu’s former economic advisor earned over $1m from ADB, court hears
THE Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has heard that former president Edgar Lungu’s economic advisor Hibeene Mwiinga earned over US$1,000,000 from 2006 to 2010 while he was employed at the Africa Development Bank (ADB). This is in a matter in which Mwiinga, his wife Mercy Musanje, and their son, Hakaantu are facing 72 corruption-related charges. The trio…...
UPND cadres attempted to abduct me in Kabwe, charges Lusambo
FORMER Lusaka province minister Bowman Lusambo says suspected UPND cadres attempted to abduct him in Kabwe at the Magistrates’ Court complex on Monday. But Central Province Police Command Deputy Commissioner Charity Munganga has refuted his claims, saying no such attempt was made to abduct Lusambo. On Monday, Lusambo appeared in court for a matter in…...
Chilenje man gets 30 days for assaulting wife over money
The Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has convicted and sentenced a 41-year-old man of Lusaka’s Chilenje township to 30 days, simple imprisonment, for assaulting his 31-year-old wife. The 41-year-old man assaulted his wife after she went to his workplace to ask for money to buy candles because their child was having difficulty sleeping in the dark. Magistrate…...
More US businesses are taking interest in Zambia – HH
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says more US businesses are looking to invest in Zambia. And Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO Alice Albright says the corporation has designed a programme that will address food and nutrition security issues under the current drought conditions being faced in Zambia. Speaking when he met the Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO, Monday, President…...
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