By HELEN ZULU – ZAMBIA still has a chance to acquire a financial bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) provided it follows the strict reforms the fund has proposed. Government has been negotiating...

By JULIUS PHIRI – THE government has concluded the tender process for the establishment of industrial yards in Chipata, Solwezi, Mongu, Kasama, Kitwe and Ndola, Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe has said. Ms...

By CHATULA KANGALI – VARIOUS foreign investors have expressed interest in investing in rubber processing ventures in Zambia. Investors from Egypt, China, India, South Africa, Israel and South American want to invest in tyre manufacturing...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – A KITWE-based company has staked more than US$10 million in the development of a tourism resort which will include a kids’ park, a housing complex and a one-kilometre artificial lake. ACM...

By STEVEN ZANDE – WESTERN Province Permanent Secretary Sibanze Simuchoba has said dialogue is crucial to nation building and to consolidating democratic gains which Zambia has achieved from independence. Meanwhile, a 58-year-old Mongu resident has...

By SYLVESTER MWALE – RESIDENTS in Kabwe’s Makululu Township have called for a rollout of pour flush toilets, a sanitation project aimed at replacing pit latrines with flushable ones in areas not connected to piped...

By RABECCA CHIPANTA – LUANSHYA Mayor Nathan Chanda says he is disappointed with some people bent on trying to politicise the workers’ recruitment process at Baluba Mine. Baluba Mine was placed under care and maintenance...

By DELPHINE ZULU – A 27-YEAR-OLD Congolese woman has escaped deportation in a matter where she was facing one count of unlawful stay after magistrate David Simusamba delivered an absolute discharge judgment. The woman Uwimana...

By FRANCINA PHIRI – MINISTRY of Livestock and Fisheries has urged livestock farmers in Luano District to procure vaccines for their cattle following the outbreak of lumpy skin cattle disease in the district. Director of...

By MILDRED KATONGO – THE ministry of General Education has closed about 11 schools on the Copperbelt due to lack of good sanitation facilities. Copperbelt provincial education officer Felix Ngoma said the 11 schools were...