Government says the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has as at 19th September bought about 900,000 metric tons of maize worth K1.2 million from farmers across the country. Government had given FRA a target of 500,000 metric tons of maize purchases during the 2014 marketing season but has been forced to buy extra maize as result of the overwhelming response from ...

Vice President Guy Scott says President Michael Sata is alive contrary to US media reports suggesting that he had died. Dr Scott said this in Parliament this morning in response to a question by Monze central Member of Parliament Jack Mwiimbu who wanted to know the President’s health status following US media reports that he was attended to by Doctors ...

The Economic Association of Zambia has observed that though Zambia is this year celebrating its golden jubilee, much of its post independence economy has been characterized by inflationary turbulence especially prior to the year 2002. Speaking in Lusaka today during the National Economic Advisory Council stakeholders validation seminar dubbed “Inflation and Growth; Estimating the Threshold level of Inflation in Zambia”, ...