By JOWIT SALUSEKI – IVY Chewe, 30, is a single mother of four children who lives with her family in a village outside Chinsali district in Muchinga Province. Since 2014, she has been enrolled in...

NO technical institution is established whose work to share and nurture skills to transform society is not born with it. Women on the global skin naturally encounter arresting socio-economic and political challenges in male-dominated occupations...

TODAY, we live in a society of convenience. Of course, modern day  menstrual pads and tampons have made feminine hygiene easier and more convenient. Unfortunately, just as most convenient things, the pads have a devastating...

By CLAVER MUTINTA – WITH the hustle and bustle of congestion in mobile service networks, or absolutely no service at all at times, thereby jamming business meetings, forcing decision makers and business executives to miss...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – AFTER mining ownership changed hands in the mid 90s, mining towns have not been the same since because most of them, if not all, have failed to cope with the economic...

By Fergus Cochrane-Dyet OBE Our first arrival in Zambia as a family was tinged with sadness. It was December 2004. I was the new British Deputy High Commissioner. We began settling into the house assigned...

There has been a lot of talk in the media recently about rubber and soya bean plantations as well as the Cashew Infrastructure Development Project (CIDP). These projects allude to some of the incentives that...

Norman Vincent Pearle said, ‘Even if you may be down to the worst the best is potentially within you’! How can the best be potentially within you when you are down to the worst? The...

By MUNAMBEZA MUWANEI – OVER the last few months, Zambia has witnessed a series of fires that have resulted in entrepreneurs losing out on their capital completely. Apart from the fires, the country also experienced...

By JULIUS PHIRI – THE Government, with World Bank support, is implementing the Zambia Integrated Forest and Landscape Project (ZIFLP) in Eastern Province. The total financing of the project was US$32.8 million and covers a...