The Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) has in 2018 facilitated export deals worth over US$ 109.5 million in form of on spot sales and business deals. The export deals were clinched by the private sector at various export promotion platforms. ZDA Acting Director General Cosam Ngoma says the agency has this year also recorded US $3.9 billion of projected investment in ...

The Chipata High Court has jailed two men to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour for illegal possession of 8 kilograms of ivory and leopard skin. Another man was sentenced to six years imprisonment with hard labour for illegal possession of ivory weighing up to 2 kilograms. The three men were tried and convicted by the Lundazi Subordinate Court and ...

Education Minister David Mabumba has announced that the ministry has finalized the listing of the names of the Teaching Council of Zambia and Examination Council of Zambia Commissioners. This follows after Zambia National Union of Teachers (ZNUT) appealed to general education minister David Mabumba to quickly appoint a council in order to enhance the performance of the Teaching Council of ...

Government says the country remains on high alert following the outbreak of Ebola in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary Kennedy Malama says so far Zambia has not recorded any Ebola case. In an interview by telephone, Dr. Malama has told Q-News that immediately the DRC reported the outbreak of the virus in August, government ...

Secretary to the Cabinet Roland Msiska has disclosed that government has reduced the travel budget to 65 percent as part of the announced austerity measures. He says this has been made possible following the creation of a civil service travel agency which now analyzes the best of options for traveling abroad. Dr. Msiska says government is equally making direct savings ...

The death toll following the tsunami caused by the Anak Krakatau volcano has risen to at least 373, Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency says. Saturday saw giant waves crash into coastal towns on the islands of Sumatra and Java. It is thought that volcanic activity set off undersea landslides which in turn generated the killer waves. “1,459 people are injured, while ...

Photographs have been released of an Arab princess who was feared missing. Sheikha Latifa, the daughter of Dubai’s ruler, reportedly tried to escape abroad in March. Witnesses said she was allegedly taken from a yacht near India and forcibly returned. The United Arab Emirates has denied the reports, and says she has been living at home with her family. The ...

Police in Sudan have fired tear gas at football fans demanding an end to President Omar al-Bashir’s rule as protests spread across the country. Hundreds of demonstrators blocked a road near a football stadium in the capital, Khartoum, on Sunday before clashing with riot police. Opposition figures say 22 protesters have been killed since Wednesday, but officials say the figure ...

The Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training Authority (TEVETA) has disclosed that it has spent a total of Twenty Three point one million kwacha on training small medium scale entrepreneurs across the country in 2018. TEVETA Acting Director General Cleophas Takaiza says the k23.1 million saw over 9,700 SMEs being trained in various courses. Mr. Takaiza says TEVETA is committed ...

The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has placed its Mobile Compliance Unit teams on high alert to thwart any smuggling during this festive season. ZRA Chirundu border Assistant Commissioner Kaoma Bwalya says the MCU teams are in all strategic areas ready to pounce on smugglers. Speaking when he handed over a donation of seized smuggled products which include sugar and laundry ...