Acting President Confers with Top UK Envoy

At a time doomsayers are professing a deteriorated relationship between Zambia and the United Kingdom, Acting President Inonge Wina has held a fruitful meeting with United Kingdom Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Zambia and Angola Baroness Lindsay Northover at State House. The two leaders touched base on wide ranging issues involving the two countries. Recently…

ZAMBIA TO BENEFIT FROM CANADA FUNDING

Zambia is marked to be among African countries to benefit from the 4-hundred million dollars that the Canadian government has pledged towards the girl child programmes. The three-year funding programme includes ending child marriage activities in Zambia and other developing countries. Canadian Minister of international development Marie Claude Bibeau says the money will target girls…

ZAMBIA ON RIGHT TRACK-ECL

President Edgar Lungu says Zambia has made steady progress in tackling the Tuberculosis epidemic. The President says the TB incidence rate has reduced by 50 percent between 2000 and 2016. He however says despite this progress, Zambia remains one of the 30 high TB and TB and HIV burden countries with a TB incidence rate…

2.7M POUNDS RETURNED

Government has written to the British government over its intentions to pay back the 2-point Seven million pounds which was meant for beneficiaries under the social cash transfer. However, the money remained unutilised in a ZANACO bank account. Special Assistant to the President for Press and Relations Amos Chanda says Ministry of Community Development Permanent…

Kitwe Council to Relocate 2, 120 Squatters

The Kitwe City Council will relocate about 2,120 residents that have settled on land belonging to Phoenix Materials which has since been surrendered to the council to allow for the development of Industrial clusters. According to a consultative meeting Chaired by Copperbelt Minister Japhen Mwakalombe in Kitwe, the community have been asked to move to…

Police Okay Laura Miti’s Demo

Activist Laura Miti’s Alliance for Community Action has been granted their permit to picket parliament on Friday as Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe presents the 2019 National Budget. The permit was initially denied by the police but upon appeal the demonstration has been Okayed. Miti has announced that the permit has been granted. “The police have…
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