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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Lusaka Stock Exchange goes real-time
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Fertilizer tree triples Malawi Zambia yields
Scientists have managed to triple maize yields on smallholder farms in Zambia and Malawi by simple "evergreen agriculture" techniques. Planting acacia trees among the crops automatically fertilised the ...
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Zambia farmers get innovative e-vouchers
The 'e-voucher project' - the first of its kind on the continent, according to participant Mobile Transactions Zambia Limited (MTZL) - covers the delivery of products including seeds, fertilisers and herbicides. Initial tests carried out in 12 districts of Zambia earlier this year showed promising results, so the pilot was scaled-up and is now undergoing tests in 28 districts. It is a ...
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Zambia AIDS treatment reaches 90 of sick
As HIV/AIDS prevalence is finally being reduced in Africa, also Zambia can celebrate successes in the fight against the pandemic. Almost all Zambians suffering from AIDS now receive ...
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Zambia mine tax fraud causes outrage
A leaked auditors' report alleging massive tax irregularities in Zambia's key copper mining sector "must lead to" further investigations, civil society groups ...
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Zambia President to win upcoming polls
Zambia's President Rupiah Banda expects his MMD party to score an easy victory in an election that he says will be coming in a matter of months. Elections must be held in ...
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Ratsa Celebrate Motion Failure
The Road Transport and Safety Agency has celebrated the failure of the private members' motion that sought to halt the fast track court system having weekend imprisonment as part of the sentence for drunk driving. Choma Central Member of Parliament Cornelius Mweetwa had moved a motion to thwart the weekend imprisonment punishment fearing that it will be abused by RATSA but the motion ...
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Church Challenged - Level Playing Field for Men and Women
The Church of the Province of Central Africa has been challenged to level the playing field for both men and women in critical decision-making structures to "facilitate exemplary leadership within the Church." The challenge was made today by a Gender and Leadership Consultant from the Churches Council of Zambia, Mrs Njira Bweupe, during a workshop held ahead of the Church of the ...
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fastjet launches second international route
LONDON (ShareCast) - fastjet's shares edged higher in Friday afternoon trading after the African airline announced the launch of its second international route from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to Lusaka, Zambia. It marks the first direct air link between the Dar es Salaam and Lusaka. It currently takes travellers 25 hours to drive from each point. The new route will initially operate flights ...
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Zambia court frees 54 separatists
Lusaka (AFP) - A court in Zambia on Friday freed 54 separatists who were facing charges of treason for trying to create a new state called Barotseland in the west of the ...
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Renard Mayuka will save us
Sochaux coach Herv Renard believes Zambian striker Emmanuel Mayuka will score the goals to fire the club away from the relegation zone. Mayuka is on loan from Southampton, and has netted in each of his last two matches, but has still not been able to help his side to what would be a first victory since Renard took charge a few weeks back. Renard's arrival at the French League 1 side saw ...
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Mayuka- A Renard win will spark Sochaux
Emmanuel Mayuka believes coach Herve Renard’s first league win in charge at Sochaux will be the catalyst to their revival. Sochaux current sit bottom of the French Ligue 1 table with just one win all season. Renard has picked up three draws from his last five games in charge since his appointment in October. ';Once we get the first win under him we will be up and running,'; ...
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Zambian court frees 54 held over treason
A court in Zambia has freed 54 separatists who were facing charges of treason for trying to create a new state called Barotseland in the west of the country. The prosecution on Friday told magistrate Aridah Chulu that it had decided not to proceed with charges against the group, giving no further reason for its decision. "I hereby discharge you but would like to warn you that you may ...
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FastJet announces launch date for Lusaka flights
FastJet yesterday announced the launch date for their second international destination out of their base in Dar es Salaam. It will be Lusaka/Zambia and flights are due to commence on February 1, 2014, subject to all regulatory approvals, this pointed out as a result of the South African civil aviation body only recently pulling a fast one on FastJet, pun intended, when they halted the inaugural ...
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Zambia court frees 54 separatists charged with treason
A Zambian court on Friday freed 54 separatists who had been facing charges of treason for trying to create a new western state called ...
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Ras Willie - Music Flows in His Veins
VETERAN musician Ras Willie, is part of the very fabric that laid a firm foundation for the development of Zamrock and that kind of music still flows in his veins, decades after the chapter closed. There is a strong touch of Zamrock in Ras Willie's beat, a situation that points to the fact that, this taste of music is not completely dead but just simmering. Having followed and spent more ...
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Striking UTH Livingstone Nurses Issued With Exculpatory Letters
student Nurse at the labour ward helping new monther Over 200 nurses at the University Teaching Hospital UTH have been issued with exculpatory letters after defying government's directive for them to resume work. The nurses have, however, refused to collect the letters saying they have been issued by UTH management who are not their employers. In Livingstone, the workers who have also been ...
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Brian Hapunda’s trial has commenced
Former PF Southern Province Political Secretary Brian Hapunda Southern Water and Sewerage Company (SWASCO) says former Southern province Patriotic Front (PF) political secretary Brian Hapunda wrote a letter to the company requesting for a donation from the company. SWASCO accountant Curtis Lungowe aged 41 of Riverside Choma said he received a letter from his superiors directing him to pay a sum ...
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President Sata advised to deal with the intra-party violence
Former Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) National Chairman Michael Mabenga has advised President Michael Sata not to take a Luke-warm approach towards the intra-party violence in the Patriotic Front. Mr Mabenga wonders why President Sata who he says he has known to be a proactive person has been so silent on the Patriotic Front intra-party violence and confusion. He stresses that it is ...
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Increased foreign borrowing limit worries JCTR
The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) has warned that the country runs the risk of falling back into the debt trap following the decision by Parliament to increase government’s borrowing limit. JCTR Director Fr Leonard Chiti has tells Qfm that Zambians are not against borrowing by government but that what they are against is irresponsible borrowing. Fr. Chiti says if the ...
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