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The country has in the last 24 hours recorded seven (7) COVID-19 related deaths and 1,356 new cases out of 4,449 tests conducted giving a 40% overall positivity. Giving a Covid-19 update this morning, Minister of Health Sylvia Masebo says all the seven deaths recorded were among the unvaccinated aged between 23 and 90. Ms Masebo says Lusaka recorded 4 ...

GEARS Initiative Zambia has noted the need to interrogate the appointment of Patriotic Front Vice president, Given Lubinda, to act as party president following the stepping down of Former President Edgar Lungu as Party president. GEARS Executive Director Mcdonald Chipenzi says the appointment of Mr. Lubinda is wrong and goes against the PF constitution which states in Article 53 sub ...

Government has learnt with deep sorrow the death of four people in Choma’s Mbabala area of Southern Province, following flash floods and six others who died in a head-on collision involving two motor vehicles on the great east road in Chongwe district. In a statement obtained by Q-News, Iinister of Information and Media and Chief Government Spokesperson Chushi Kasanda has ...

Finance and National Planning Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane has asked Zambia’s bilateral creditors to as soon as possible form a Creditor Committee that will formally evaluate the country’s debt treatment request with the objective of providing financing assurances to the IMF Board of Directors as soon as practicable. Speaking during a recent virtual gathering of bilateral creditors, Dr Musokotwane stressed the ...

Minister of Health Sylvia Masebo says the earmarked recruitment of 11,200 health personnel should be implemented with immediate effect to mitigate the challenge of shortage of manpower in health facilities in the wake of the fourth wave of covid-19. Mrs. Masebo says her ministry has allowed the recruitment process to begin immediately with other necessary formalities to be done later ...

 President Hakainde Hichilema says his new dawn administration is working extremely hard and in a manner that is versatile to change the prevailing economic situation in the country. Speaking in Kafue today when he graced the pass out parade of police officers at the Geoffrey Mukuma Paramilitary Training facility popularly known as Sondela, president Hichilema says it does not matter ...

Minister of Health Sylvia Masebo has announced that the ministry will begin administering covid-19 booster vaccines from Monday, 27th December, 2021. Speaking during the covid-19 update in Lusaka todays Ms Masebo says the development is part of the resolutions arrived at following a meeting by the council of ministers on disaster management to deliberate on the prevailing covid situation and ...

The Energy Regulation Board (ERB) has exceeded its target of k200 million in non-tax revenue collection for the year 2021 by k130 million. The k330 million translates into over 50% excess in non-tax revenue collection. ERB Acting Director General Fred Hang’andu made the revelation during a media briefing in Lusaka today. Mr. Hang’andu has attributed this to ERB’s proactive debt ...

Republican president Hakainde Hichilema has directed the Zambia National Service (ZNS) to help mitigate the effects of climate change by embarking on tree planting. Speaking when he commissioned ZNS officer cadets intake 04 of 2020 at the ZNS Kafue training camp, president Hichilema says government will facilitate a robust support arrangement to ZNS and other units as a way of ...

Governance, Elections, Advocacy and Research Services (GEARS) initiative Zambia Executive Director Mcdonald Chipenzi has called on stakeholders to reunite in pushing for the repeal of the defamation law. Mr. Chipenzi has told q-news in a telephone interview that it does not make sense to have such a in a democratic nation like Zambia. He has observed that the defamation of ...