Disability Rights Watch (DRW) says the impacts of climate change are hitting hard on women with disabilities.   Organization Director Wamundila Waliuya says the UN theme for 2022 International Women’s Day dubbed “Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow” is timely as it triggers wider reflection on how women who are at the centre of families can be supported to build ...

Increasing prices of commodities worries JCTR The cost of living as measured by the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection [JCTR] basic needs and nutrition basket for Lusaka has continued on the upward trajectory as it has increased from slightly over 9, 049. Kwacha recorded in January to about 9, 305.kwacha for the month of February 2022. JCTR Social and Economic ...

Zambia has joined the world in commemorating International Women’s Day, an annual event held on March 8 to celebrate the achievements of women in social, economic, political and cultural life towards making the world a better place for all. The event, which has been observed since 1911, is also used to rekindle the struggle for gender parity and women’s empowerment.  ...

ABSA Bank Zambia Plc Chief Executive Officer, Muzinga Melu says digital innovation and creativity is the way to go in the banking industry. Speaking to Q-news, Ms. Melu stresses that the digitally led agenda reduces the cost of doing business, stating that banks do not have to heavily invest in brick and mortar in order to reach a wider cliental ...

The Poultry Association of Zambia (PAZ) has attributed price reduction of broiler chickens on the Zambian market to the increase in poultry farmers in the country. Speaking in an interview with Q-News, PAZ Executive Manager, Dominic Chanda notes that the increasing number of poultry farmers has resulted in supply outstripping demand, thereby resulting in chicken price reduction. He adds that due ...

CCZ General Secretary Fr. Emmanuel Chikoya The Council of Churches in Zambia [CCZ] has described as alarming revelations by Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Jack Mwiimbu that some police officers are involved in armed robbery activities in Lusaka and Copperbelt provinces.  CCZ General Secretary Father Emmanuel Chikoya expects the minister to take decisive action and bring the culprits ...

The Energy Regulation Board (ERB) says fuel pump prices would have further gone up had government not intervened by forgoing certain taxes as a way to cushion consumers. ERB Acting Director Consumer and Public Affairs, Nasima Shaikh tells Q-News that government weaved the 25% import duty and value added tax vat on imported fuel by oil marketing companies OMCs, adding ...