Author: Charles Sakala

OVER 50, 000 JOBS IN JEOPARDY WITHIN TIMBER INDUSTRY

The Zambia National Association for Sawmillers has warned that over 50, 000 direct and indirect jobs within the timber industry are in jeopardy unless government opens and awards concessions to businesses. The Zambia Forestry and Forest Industries Corporation-ZAFFICO-PLC inventory data revealed earlier this year, that pinewood stock has declined by 62 percent from over 3.37

MALNUTRITION CONTINUES TO BE ONE OF THE BURDENS TO ZAMBIA’S HEALTH SECTOR

The National Food and Nutrition Commission says malnutrition continues to be one of the burdens to Zambia’s health sector. In her presentation at the opening of the 2023 Scaling-Up Nutrition National Conference in Lusaka today, Commission Executive Director Mupanga Mapani says Zambia is now also seeing a new trend of over-malnutrition. Dr. Mapani says this

MUNIR ZULU CHARGED AND ARRESTED

Police have charged and arrested Munir Zulu aged 35 of Olympia Extension in Lusaka for the offence of Seditious Practices contrary to section 57 (1) (b) as read together with section 60 (1) (e) of the Laws of Zambia. It alleged that the suspect on September 7, 2023 at Ibex Hill Police station did utter

OPEN ACCESS REGIME FOR ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION TO HELP END ENERGY POVERTY IN ZAMBIA

Policy Analyst and Academician Kelvin Chibomba says government’s decision to implement a non-discriminatory open access regime for electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure will help to end energy poverty in the country. Government is in the process of implementing open access regime in the energy sector which will remove state power utility ZESCO from entering into

ANOTHER FIRE GUTS SOME SHOPS IN KITWE

A fire has swept through some shops in Kitwe, destroying various property and merchandise worth thousands of kwachas. A visit by Phoenix News at the scene located behind Salvation Army Church, near the Kalulushi bus station in town center, found the shops which also include a butchery and a saloon, completely burnt with several traders
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