THE mere mention of Mwinilunga District in North Western Province brings to memory either the tasty pineapples that are synonymous with the area or the discovery of gold at Kasenseli.However, ever since the infamous Kasenseli...

By PASSY HAACHIZO-GOVERNMENT through the Ministry of Health, and its cooperating partners, is conducting round three of children vaccination against poliomyelitis (polio), a highly infectious viral disease that largely affects children under five years.The Government...

By DU XIAOHUI, Chinese Ambassador to Zambia – On August 10, 2022, President Hakainde Hichilema attended the commissioning ceremony of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway (TAZARA) Memorial Park.The TAZARA is the largest foreign aid project since the...

Working from home is not new in some countries, but it is in some.Some companies took long to implement a working from home strategy as part of business continuity.Working from home was looked at as...

By MIKE MUNKOMBWE-Zambia has a diverse and rich cultural heritage with over 70 ethnic groups dotted across the country’s 10 provinces.Traditional ceremonies celebrated by indigenous cultural groups remain vital as they are also used as...

A FEW years ago, Kaniki in Ndola was a small farming community near Sakanya Border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).The story of some local women who have started indulging in sexual...

By HAKAINDE HICHILEMA-It’s hard to escape the sense that democracy is under siege. According to the EIU Democracy Index, each of the world’s seven regions is less democratic today than it was a decade ago.Until...

All laws are illegal – Bob Marley.Some scholars define law as a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behaviour.Quite a good definition and one would...

THE past few months, Zambia, like many other countries in Africa, experienced incessant fuel pump hikes and this resulted in price increases in many other commodities.The fuel hikes were necessitated by oil producing countries due...

LOCAL authorities in the country, especially the Lusaka City Council (LCC), have a task of reinventing themselves in order to harness emerging opportunities in their jurisdictions.The management of mobile money agents and street vendors are...