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Copperbelt province has recorded a 20 percent decrease in maternal mortality cases. Provincial health director Robert Zulu says this is the lowest percentage so far that the province has recorded. Dr Zulu says between 2020 and 2021, the province has seen a significant drop in mothers dying on giving birth as compared to the previous year. He says last year ...

Finance and National Planning Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane has tasked the new Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) board to develop an action plan to address the challenges in tax administration and ensure ZRA attains the revenue collection target of above 21 percent of GDP over the medium term. Those appointed to the ZRA board in pursuant to the provisions of Section 12(1) ...

Nkana Member of Parliament Binwell Mpundu has called on lawmakers and other stakeholders to work together in addressing issues eating up Zambia’s moral fibre. Mr. Mpundu has named these issues as teenage pregnancy, early marriage, Gender Based Violence and suicide among others. He stresses that in order to address such issues, all stakeholders who include, lawmakers, the church and traditional ...

Labour and Social Security Minister Brenda Tambatamba has warned companies against defying the Casualization law. In 2015, then President Edgar Lungu signed into law the amended Employment Act Cap 268 of the Laws of Zambia making Casualization and unjustifiable termination of contracts of employment illegal. But Ms. Tambatamba is concerned that some companies have continued employing workers on casual basis. ...

Ministry of Agriculture Permanent Secretary, Green Mbozi has clarified that government has not issued any new permits for the importation of onion following the ban on onion imports. In an interview with QTV News, Mr Mbozi explains that those that the import permits in use at the moment are those which were issued prior to the suspension of onion imports ...

Minister of Mines and Minerals Development, Paul Kabuswe has disclosed that government will next week give an update on the review of the suspension of the issuance of mining licenses. In February this year, Government suspended for 30-days the issuance of mining licenses due to noted corruption by officers at the ministry of mines to pave way for the cleaning ...

President Hakainde Hichilema and his predecessor Edgar Lungu have been urged to stop looking at each other as competitors, but focus on building Zambia. University of Zambia Historian, Bizeck Phiri says Mr. Lungu is no longer a competitor to president Hichilema; therefore his role is to make contribution to nation on the basis of him being former republican President. Prof. ...

The Electoral Commission of Zambia has postponed the holding of nominations and elections for the Mongu District Mayoral by-election and two (2) Local Government Ward by-elections in Lukutu Ward of Luwingu Town Council and Katimba Ward of Monze Town Council. The Commission has since prescribed Tuesday, 22nd March, 2022 as new nomination date, with Thursday, 14th April, 2022 as the ...

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Country representative, Suze-Percy Filippin has reaffirmed the UN AGENCY’S RESOLVE to continue working with the Zambian government to respond to challenges experienced by smallholder farmers and continue contributing to the transformation of the agriculture sector. Speaking during the ongoing three day Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Farming Systems in Zambia (SIFAZ) Project review meeting in Lusaka ...

The Constitutional Court has dismissed a petition by Patriots for Economic Progress (PEP) President Sean Tembo that President Hakainde Hichilema must have declared his assets before the 2021 General Election. The Court has observed that the omission by President Hichilema and other candidates in the 2021 General Election, to declare their assets did not contravene Article 52 sub-article three of ...