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United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV and Aids in Africa, Elizabeth Mataka says there is a critical need to address issues of gender based violence, equality and non-discrimination in all areas, in order to ensure that women are girls are able to exercise their full rights.
Speaking when she addressed the 54th Commission on the [...]

A lawmaker has charged that nothing good will come out of the ongoing National Constitution Conference (NCC) because it has thrown out all the progressive recommendations that the people of Zambia made through the Mung’omba Constitutional Review Commission (CRC).
Mandevu Member of Parliament, Jean Kapata says the NCC delegates have succeeded in getting rid of all [...]

THE German government has refused to approve latest road contracts in Southern Province until outstanding issues regarding sector financing and procurement have been addressed.
In a letter dated February, 21, 2010 to the Road Development Agency (RDA) chief executive officer Erasmus Chilundika signed by KfW, a Germany-owned government development bank based in Frankfurt, the Joint Donor [...]

Patriotic Front cadres in Lusaka have accused Former PF secretary general Edward Mumbi of having been paid by the ruling MMD to scandalize PF leader Michael Sata.
Reacting to Mr. Mumbi’s remarks during a press briefing in Lusaka yesterday that Mr. Sata keeps on opening windows of hate and immorality, the cadres said Mr. Mumbi has [...]

RUPIAH is an irresponsible and playful old man, Patriotic Front (PF) secretary general Wynter Kabimba has said.
Reacting to chief government spokesperson Lieutenant General Ronnie Shikapwasha’s statement that he was ignorant in his observation over the weekend that President Rupiah Banda went to China on a tourism stint, Kabimba maintained that President Banda had not shown [...]

A lawmaker has charged that nothing good will come out of the ongoing National Constitution Conference (NCC) because it has thrown out all the progressive recommendations that the people of Zambia made through the Mung’omba Constitutional Review Commission (CRC).
Mandevu Member of Parliament, Jean Kapata says the NCC delegates have succeeded in getting rid of all [...]

THREE Former Patriotic Front (PF) secretaries-general have accused the Roman Catholic Church Lusaka Archbishop Telesphore Mpundu of selectively applying the Catholic Church doctrine to suit PF leader Michael Sata.
And acting St Ignatius Parish Priest Fr Setako yesterday refused to explain why Mr Sata has continued to receive Eucharist but said it was wrong for anyone [...]