Aids Vaccine Conference On
THIS year's AIDS Vaccine Conference takes place in Barcelona, Spain, from October 7-10. I was supposed to attend the conference as a follow-up to last year's conference that I attended in Boston in the...
View ArticleCDDR Will Seek International Sanctions against Patriotic Front following...
File Picture: Police officers push a PF youth who wanted to start a fight with UPND cadres at the Lusaka magistrate court A series of escalating violent attacks unleashed by the ruling Patriotic Front...
View ArticleOnly in Zambia Bungee-twirl
On the sidelines of the historic and recently held 20th edition of the United Nations World Tourism Organization's General Assembly, the Zambia Tourism Board had commissioned eTN to cover the event on...
View ArticleTanzania-Zambia railway workers end strike losses mount
DAR ES SALAAM, Sept 9 | Mon Sep 9, 2013 1:28pm EDT DAR ES SALAAM, Sept 9 (Reuters) - The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) resumed operations on Monday after more than 1,000 Tanzanian workers...
View ArticleZambia 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...
View ArticleLusaka 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 ...
View ArticleFertilizer 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...
View ArticleZambia 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...
View ArticleZambia 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 ...
View ArticleZambia 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 ...
View ArticleZambia 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 ...
View ArticleZambia to play Brazil
FAZ has confirmed that Chipolopolo will play against Brazil in a high profile friendly match in China on October 15. In a statement issued on Monday, FAZ revealed that Zambia has agreed to face the...
View ArticleFrancis Mourns Death of Zambias 1st Cardinal
Former Archbishop of Lusaka Died Thursday at 81VATICAN CITY, August 30, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Pope Francis today sent a telegram to the archbishop of Lusaka, Zambia, expressing his condolences at the...
View ArticleZambia Zambian Terminates Ksh. 18.4 Billion ZTE Contract Over Corruption...
The Zambian government has terminated a US$210 million closed circuit television camera contract with China's ZTE in the wake of allegations of corruption, underscoring the growing controversy...
View ArticleZambia Zambia Starts Exporting Maize
ZAMBIA has commenced the export of over 200,000 tonnes of maize from the 2.47 million tonnes the country produced in the 2012/13 farming season. The maize is being exported under the...
View ArticleVolunteers from Seattle learn a lot from school in Zambia
Seattleās Queen Anne Elementary School and the Dwankhozi Basic School in Zambia are trying to forge a relationship deep enough to be nourished by both differences and similarities. Ties between the...
View ArticleMalila denies pocketing more than Judges
ATTORNEY General Mumba Malila Attorney General (AG) Mumba Malila has refuted media reports suggesting that he together with Director of Public of Prosecutions (DPP) Mutembo Nchito and Solicitor General...
View ArticleShamenda dismisses CDDR talk of sanctions
Labour Minister Fackson Shamenda Acting Chief Government Spokesperson Fackson Shamenda has dismissed as mere politicking plans by the Coalition for the Defence of Democratic Rights (CDDR) to seek...
View ArticleAmnesty calls for release of Zambias first arrested gay couple
Zambian police arrested James Mwape (22) and Philip Mubiana (22) from Kapiri Mposhi on April 25 2013, after the family of one of the men reported the relationship to authorities. Mwape and Mubiana's...
View ArticleBCG vaccine shortage given to newly born babies spreads to Livingstone
LIVINGSTONE District has been hit with a shortage the BCG vaccine that is given to newly born babies for prevention against Tuberculosis (TB). The shortage of the vaccine has not spared Livingstone...
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