Investment Forum with MARGARET CHIMANSE THE government in 2014 sent a delegation to Thailand on a due diligence mission to the bioenergy project that Sunbird Bioenergy had implemented in that country. Following their findings and recommendations, the government through the Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) embarked on negotiations with Sunbird Bioenergy to agree on the best
ELIZABETH CHATUVELA, CATHERINE MUMBA, Mongu, Lusaka UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) cadres in Senanga on Tuesday impounded an Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) truck ferrying election materials on suspicion that it was carrying pre-marked ballot papers. The incident happened less than 24 hours after UPND cadres in Livingstone impounded and damaged new ECZ trucks
KELLY NJOMBO, Lusaka GOVERNMENT has called on insurance firms to develop affordable weather index insurance products in the wake of climate change as it is one of the risk management mechanisms for crop protection among small-scale farmers. Minister of Agriculture Given Lubinda said the effects of climate change are real, and Zambia is not excluded
CHOMBA MUSIKA, Lusaka POLICE in Lusaka have arrested a businessman of Bauleni township for allegedly threatening to shoot Zamtel chief executive officer Mupanga Mwanakatwe. Dr Mwanakatwe has described the alleged threats on him as “barbaric and absurd” and has urged the police to expedite investigations into the matter. Police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga said in a
CATHERINE MUMBA, Lusaka POLICE in Lusaka have recovered a vehicle that was allegedly used in the aggravated robbery in which a police constable was shot dead and K200,000 stolen on Tuesday. The bandits shot dead the police constable, Pythias Ntulukila, before stealing K200,000 from a cash-in-transit armoured vehicle in Lusaka’s Rhodes Park residential area. Police
