Zimbabwe has taken steps towards ending its economic isolation in its first budget since the end of Robert Mugabe’s 37-year authoritarian rule. Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa announced a package of measures aimed at wooing international investors, including new curbs on laws that require firms to be 51% locally owned. He said privatisation of some state firms was being considered. He ...

Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) Zambia says it supported 267, 767 primary school children and 30, 512 secondary school pupils in 2016. CAMFED Board Chairperson Professor Dickson Mwansa says the organization is happy that more girls are accessing and completing school and college, and young women in the CAMFED Alumni are a leading change. Speaking during the annual general meeting, ...

Wembley will host seven games at Euro 2020 after Brussels lost the right to host matches for the tournament. Belgium’s capital city has been ruled out as a planned new stadium is still to be built and Uefa have not received the necessary guarantees. Wembley was already scheduled to hold the semi-finals and final but will now also host three ...

At least 17 Palestinians have been wounded in clashes in the Gaza Strip and across the occupied West Bank, during protests against US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. One person is in a critical condition. Mr Trump’s announcement – met with worldwide dismay – reversed decades of US policy on the sensitive issue. Israel deployed hundreds ...

Patriotic Front Secretary General Davies Mwila has called for unity in the party as it embarks on the mobilization of structures across the country. Speaking when he addressed party officials at Solwezi Airport, Mr. Mwila said North Western Province is considered a stronghold of the opposition UPND thus the need to work hard in mobilizing the party ahead of the ...

Copperbelt Minister Bowman Lusambo was this morning sent out of Parliament for passing running commentaries while Roan Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili was on the floor debating. Mr. Kambwili was trying to highlight some of the alleged corrupt practices by some government officials during debate on the budgetary allocation for the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Mr. Lusambo was heard shouting that ...

The European Union has given Zambia 1.8 million Euros under the second European Union Development Fund (EDF) Aviation Sector Support Programme. The EDF is a 4-year project designed to support the development of a reliable and effective aviation sector in Zambia. EU Head of Section, Adam Grodzicki says the project will also help Zambia’s Aviation Authority and Aviation stakeholders to ...

Same-sex marriage will become legal in Australia after a historic bill was passed in the House of Representatives. An overwhelming majority of MPs voted to change the Marriage Act, eight days after a similarly decisive result in the Senate. The vote set off immediate celebrations in parliament, prompting cheers, applause and even a song. The result brings an end to ...

The Ministry of Health says it has made progress in the provision of Antiretroviral therapy (ART) with over 900 thousand HIV patients currently on treatment countrywide. Speaking in Lusaka during the first ever HIV/AIDS Champions awards ceremony aimed at appreciating people who have largely contributed to the fight against HIV/AIDS, ministry of health’s Director of Public health Dr. Andrew Silumesi ...

But Dr Chilufya has told parliament that the country has adequate stocks of Antiretroviral drugs and that there is no rationing of the drugs. And Dr Chilufya says government decided to shift the commemoration of the World AIDS Day for 2017 from 1st December to 11th December in order to allow for more participation countrywide. He says this was done ...