EU secures €153M for water project in Zambia
EUROPEAN Union Ambassador to Zambia Karolina Stasiak says the Union has secured €153 million for the implementation for the Nexus Energy-Water for Zambia (NEWZA) project. And Water Development and Sanitation Minister Collins Nzovu says the country has not made new significant investments in the water and sanitation sector. Speaking when she paid a courtesy call…...
ZAMMSA checks availability of ARVs in Chirundu
ZAMBIA Medicines and Medical Suppliers Agency (ZAMMSA) officials, among them Senior Corporate Communications Officer Enoch Lusoke yesterday toured various health posts in Chirundu District to check the availability of Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. Speaking during the tour, Chibende Health Clinic facilitator Bitwell Sibulwa indicated that the facility had enough ARVs to sustain residents for five months…....
HH urges African Air Forces to collaborate in providing humanitarian assistance
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has called on Air Forces on the continent to help one another in humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, and search and rescue. President Hichilema, who was represented by Acting Defence Minister Douglas Syakalima at the official opening of the African Air Forces Symposium, Monday, said African Air Forces would be honouring the legacy…...
Kamanga retains presidency as FAZ disqualifies rivals
ANDREW Kamanga has been re-elected FAZ president, before the ‘ball is even kicked’ after emerging as the only successful candidate among the nine that had filed in their nominations. On March 29, the FAZ will host an elective Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Livingstone to give a new executive a fresh mandate for the period…...
Increasing MPR penalises businesses, doesn’t help reduce inflation – Haabazoka
ECONOMIST Lubinda Haabazoka says as much as the Central Bank is trying to arrest the high inflation rate, increasing the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) is merely penalising local businesses. On Wednesday, Bank of Zambia Governor Dr Denny Kalyalya disclosed that the Monetary Policy Rate Committee had decided to increase the MPR by 50 basis points…...
There’s no way of escaping VAR technology, Kamanga tells pessimists
FAZ president Andrew Kamanga has branded as ‘pessimists’, those who questioned the possibility of introducing Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology in the Zambian Super League. In 2021, Kamanga announced that Football House intended to introduce the technology in the local league, two years later, the idea was piloted in the 2023 ABSA Cup final. Yesterday,…...
7 FAZ provincial chairpersons get re-elected unopposed
ONLY three out of the 10 provincial seats on the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) executive committee will be up for election after seven candidates scooped the other seats unopposed following the disqualifications of candidates. The structure of the FAZ executive committee consists of the president, vice-president, women representatives, and 10 executive committee members. These…...
2025 will be tough but with more opportunities – PwC
PRICEWATER Coopers (PwC) Country Senior Partner Andrew Chibuye says the continued upward adjustment in the Monetary Policy Rate has not been effective as expected because the intervention is acting as a pain killer. Meanwhile, Chibuye has predicted that 2025 will be a tough year but with more opportunities for entrepreneurs and individuals to earn a…...
PF is finished under Lungu, Lubinda – Milupi
INFRASTRUCTURE, Housing and Urban Development Minister Charles Milupi says the PF under the reign of former president Edgar Lungu and Given Lubinda is finished. Meanwhile, Milupi has described Lubinda’s statement that dogs are now malnourished because things are worse in the country as dramatic. On Saturday, Patriotic Front faction vice-president Lubinda said things had become…...
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