GOVERNMEENT has said the Meteorological Department had been allocated a substantial amount of money in the 2013 National Budget for the sub-sector to stop working as a 'Cinderella' department. Transport, Works, Supply and Communications Deputy Minister Panji Kaunda said in an interview on Monday that the department had been allocated funds for it to work efficiently and effectively in ...
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Meteorological Dept On Revival Path
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Food Suppliers At Each Others Throats
A ROW has erupted among members of the Food and General Suppliers Association of Zambia (FGSA) following revelations that some leaders are behind a cartel discriminating against hundreds of companies from supplying to the Government. About 120 members of the association are calling for the impeachment of top officials in the association, accusing them of presiding over a corrupt regime which is ...
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First lady calls for decentralised specialist health care services
First lady Dr Christine Kaseba First Lady, Christine Kaseba-Sata, has called for the decentralisation of specialist health services countrywide. Dr Kaseba says it is unfortunate that specialist health personnel are only concentrated in Lusaka and other urban areas, making it difficult for rural communities to access specialist health care. She said this when she received a KR270 000 donation on ...
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Chikwanda chairs Africa Group 1 meeting in Washington
Minister of Finance and National Planning Alexander Chikwanda The Minister of Finance, Alexander Chikwanda, has began a series of meetings at the on-going 2013 IMF/World Bank Spring meetings and chaired the first session of the Africa Group 1 Constituency DC representative meeting. The Africa Group 1 constituency comprises AfricaN countries from sub-Sahara Africa whose objective is to map out ...
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Chongwe hospital hostels commissioned
Lusaka province Permanent Secretary, Brig. Gen. Emeldah Chola (RTD) with Liechtenstein foreign affairs minister, Aurelia Frick joining mphashya nursing school students in dancing during the official opening of st Luke’s School of nursing hostel at Chongwe district hospital. Lusaka Province Permanent Secretary, Emeldah Chola, has thanked the government of Liechtenstein for complimenting ...
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MMD PF have failed to deliver – UNIP
Opposition UNIP supporters wave placards at the Supreme Court grounds when their party leader Tilyenji Kaunda filed in his nomination papers in Lusaka The United National Independent Party says the MMD and PF aspirations have failed to sustain and add value to the degree of development that UNIP left when it was voted out of power in 1991. UNIP Vice President, Njekwa Anamela has urged ...
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Zambias Anti-Gay Obsession is Worsening its HIV Epidemic
Zambia does not permit the advocacy of rights for its besieged lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. South Africa is the only African nation that offers legal protections for gays and same-sex ...
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Airtel Launches Free Calling Promo
AIRTEL Zambia has launched an affordable promotion dubbed "call them all for free" The promotion is targeted at pre-paid customers and awards 25 free Airtel calling minutes for a charge of KR2 and 50 Free Airtel calling minutes +30 SMS for a charge of KR4. Airtel head of corporate communications and government relations Chabuka Kawesha said in order for a customer to enjoy the free ...
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Kwacha Steady Against Dollar
THE Kwacha has steadied against the United States dollar to end a two-day bearish run that had erased over half of the gains that saw the local currency touch an eight-week high last week. Zanaco treasury newsletter said there was little trading activity in local markets with buying and selling from market players well matched on the day. The Kwacha adhered closely to opening levels through the ...
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Guy Scott reports Zambia sugar company for overpricing product
Vice President Guy Scott Republican Vice-President Dr Guy Scott has reported Zambia Sugar Plc to the Zambia Competition Commission for using their monopoly to overprice their product. This is according to a press statement released by Patron Chilemba ,First Press secretary Zambian High Comission South Africa. Dr Scott said government needs to enforce regulation on the mining operations in the ...
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AfDB Launches Multinational Project On Rural Economy in Zambia
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) in Zambia and the Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI), with support from the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), successfully launched the African Development Bank-funded Multinational - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Support to Agricultural Research for Development of Strategic Crops ...
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Chembo Turns to Trio to Down Power Dynamos
Zesco United coach Tenant Chembo says he is banking on his striking triumvirate of Patrick Kabamba, Lottie Phiri and Winston Kalengo to bring the results this season. The trio looked on fire last Saturday in Zesco’s 2-0 home win over troubled Napsa Stars at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola. Kalengo and Phiri were on target while Kabamba was instrumental in both goals on their way to ...
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Western province to develop faster with prominence of PF – Sata
PRESIDENT Michael Sata opening a plaque during the ground breaking ceremony for the construction of the 20,000-seater Mongu Stadium President Michael Sata has said Western province would develop faster and significantly if there were more Patriotic Front (PF) Members of Parliament (MPs) in the area. Currently, there are only two PF Members of Parliament (MPs) out of 17 constituencies in the ...
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Alleged electoral malpractices worries UPND official
The UPND campaign team in Kapiri Mposhi's Chang'ondo Ward has condemned the alleged strategy by the ruling PF party to exchange their Chitenge campaign materials with electorate's National Registration Cards (NRCs) and voters cards in the area. Provincial UPND Secretary, Davy Siamuzyulu who is campaigning for his party in the area today told ZANIS in a telephone interview that a ...
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Kasama Taxi drivers disrupt hospital operations
Confusion reigned at Kasama General Hospital Mortuary in the early hours of today when St Paul's United Church of Zambia (UCZ) officials in Kasama and Taxis drivers differed over burial programme of a deceased person in Kasama. Taxi drivers blocked the main way to the hospital entrance using taxis for over 40 minutes causing panic to mourners and other people who went to access health ...
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Music teacher sends 150 instruments to Zambia
A local music teacher has collected more than 150 music instruments after almost a year of gathering them for children in Zambia. Todd Snelgrove got the idea after visiting a school in the country, located in southern Africa, and seeing the music program lacked instruments. He visited a high school in Livingstone, Zambia in May 2012 and donated an acoustic guitar. Snelgrove then started ...
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Zambias Konkola Copper Mines shuts smelter
news ) , said on Friday that it had closed its Nchanga smelter after a metal leak through the wall of a furnace. The company said more details about the extent of the damage to the smelter, which produces 311,000 tonnes of copper a year, would be known in the next 24 hours. Zambia is Africa's biggest producer of the industrial ...
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Botswana to play Zambia in African Nations Championship
Botswana is set to play 2012 African champions Zambia in the first round qualifiers of the 2014 African National Championships (CHAN) football tournament. According to a statement from the Botswana Football Association (BFA) Thursday, Botswana will host Zambia for the first leg match to be played July 27, reports Xinhua. With Botswana not doing well in the ongoing 2014 Brazil World Cup ...
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Zambia Malawi finally connected by rail
Planned since the 1970s and inaugurated last month, commercial transports have now started on the Chipata-Mchinji railway line between Zambia and Malawi. Soon, a connection to Mozambique's coast will come, pending ...
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Lusaka Stock Exchange goes real-time
Real-time data from Zambia's Lusaka Stock Exchange (LuSE) today started to go online, increasing equity trading opportunities for LuSE's local and global ...
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