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Veteran Politician Chifumu Banda has urged government to ensure that it delivers farming inputs early across the country for the 2022/2023 farming season. Mr. Banda tells Q-news that in the recent past, the delivery of farming inputs has been unsatisfactory, hence the need for inputs to be delivered to beneficiaries before the onset of the rains this year. He states ...

Shiwang’andu Member of Parliament Stephen Kampyongo has described the implementation of the Constituency Development Fund program under the new dawn government as organized confusion. Mr. Kampyongo who is also former local government minister tells Q-news that it is unfortunate that even after so many years of disbursement of CDF, there are still challenges being faced with regards the effective implementation ...

Ministry of Agriculture Permanent Secretary Green Mbozi says government is concerned with the Cassava Brown Streak Disease because it poses major challenges to cassava production. Mr Mbozi says the disease can causes losses of up to 100 percent in susceptible varieties and is a major constraint to cassava production in East, Central and Southern Africa. In a speech read on ...

The Ministry of Health has announced that all the ten provinces in country will by next month have dialysis clinics offering effective dialysis services. And there currently about 300 kidney failure patients accessing dialysis treatment in the country. Ministry of health permanent secretary in-charge of technical services Professor Lackson Kasonka explains that all the provinces apart from Muchinga were offering ...

The United Nations (UN) system in Zambia has commended government for the recent recruitment of over 30,000 teachers and the impending recruitment of 11,200 health workers. UN Resident Coordinator Beatrice Mutali says the recruitment of teachers and health workers is a demonstration of the Zambian government’s determination to attain universal access to quality education and health services. Ms Mutali who ...

Technology and Science Minister Felix Mutati has disclosed that the Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority-ZICTA has raised 41 Million dollars from the auction of the 800 megahertz (MHz) and 2,600MHZ bands of radio spectrum. Mr. Mutati says the auction was conducted to expand service delivery and stimulate capacity expansion and upgrade of wireless broadband networks and services. Speaking at ...

Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) has described as ill-advised remarks attributed to ruling UPND Deputy Secretary General Gertrude Imenda urging the Anti-Corruption Commission to concentrate on old corruption cases instead of focusing on new corruption cases under the new dawn administration. TI-Z President Sampa Kalunga tells Q-news that the UPND Deputy Secretary General is not the right person to tell the ...

Golden Party of Zambia president Jackson Silavwe says threats of withdrawing the benefits of former Presidents whenever they engage in active politics is retrogressive and must be done away with in a politically mature Zambia. Mr Silavwe recalls that at inception, the clause was targeted at late first republican President Kenneth Kaunda to stop him from contesting the 1996 general ...

Governance, Elections, Advocacy and Research Services –GEARS- Initiative Zambia says opposition PF members are the ones bringing former President Edgar Lungu back into active politics thereby threatening his continued enjoyment of retirement benefits. GEARS Initiative Executive Director McDonald Chipenzi says if the former head of state is still active in politics as he indicated when PF members of parliament visited ...

Minister of labour and social security Brenda Tambatamba says government has joined the call for SADC member states to develop comprehensive national labour migration policies as the socio economic and political salience of migration remains high on the global policy landscape. Speaking when she officially opened the country level tripartite dialogue on the development of a labour migration strategy at ...