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Agriculture Minister Given Lubinda has assured maize farmers in Zambia that maize markets will still be available for the 2015/2016 crop despite the increasing input costs that farmers are currently experiencing. The Agriculture Minister said this when Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) President, Dr Evelyn Nguleka and her team presented an Issues paper on the increasing costs of maize production ...

First Lady Esther Lungu says as the country plans to commence the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is imperative that it focuses on the improvement of the various dimensions affecting the well being of humanity such as health, education, entitlements and empowerment. Speaking at a diplomatic club gala dinner in Lusaka last evening, Mrs. Lungu says unless ...

Former Economics Association of Zambia President Noel Nkhoma says there is no need to dollarize the economy because the Kwacha will rebound. Action Zambia Country Director Pamela Chisanga is calling for the dollarization of the Zambian economy in view of the continued rapid depreciation of the local currency. But Mr. Nkhoma says there is still hope that the Zambian kwacha ...

Matero Member of Parliament Miles Sampa says there is no reason for him to resign from the ruling Patriotic Front which he suffered for for 10-years. Speaking during a press briefing in Lusaka this afternoon flanked by PF Secretary General Davies Chama, Mr. Sampa says he sees no need to ditch the ruling party when the party is in government. ...

Six hundred and forty one (641) people died in 471 fatal road traffic accidents of the 8,839 accidents recorded in the third quarter of 2015. The 8,839 road traffic accidents recorded during the third quarter represents an increase of 573 accidents compared to the 8,266 recorded in 2014 during the same period. Police Spokesperson Charity Munganga-Chanda in a statement to ...

The Zambia Association of Manufacturers (ZAM) says output in the manufacturing industry has in the last six months reduced by between 40% and 70% due to load shedding. ZAM Chief Executive Officer Maybin Nsupila says production by manufacturing companies is now between 30% and 60%. He says the loss in production hours has mainly been due to load shedding as ...

Energy and Water Development Minister Dora Siliya says Government is spending US$13.1 million per month to import 148 Megawatts of power from Aggreko in Mozambique to mitigate the power deficit the country is facing. Ms Siliya has also disclosed that ZESCO is at the moment exporting off power to Botswana. In a ministerial statement on the current status of the ...

The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has extended the mobile voter registration exercise by 21 days starting from the 23rd of November, 2015 to 13th December, 2015. The mobile voter registration exercise came to an end yesterday 11th November. ECZ Chairperson Justice Esau Chulu has told a stakeholders meeting in Lusaka today that the extension of the exercise will cost ...

The opposition Alliance for Development and Democracy (ADD) has accused Government of concealing the magnitude of the problem in the mining industry. ADD President Charles Milupi says he suspects government has also realized that there is very little it can do about the problem in the mining industry. He notes that this is evidenced by how President Edgar Lungu has ...

Government has directed the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) to with immediate effect provide millers with maize grain in view of the limited availability of the grain on the market. The FRA will make available the maize grain to millers up to 30th April, 2016 at K80.00 per 50kg bag or K1,700 per metric ton. Agriculture Minister Given Lubinda says under ...