By A CORRESPONDENT  – SMALLHOLDER farmers and private sector companies within the soybean value chain have a lot to gain from local and regional soybean markets if the Government takes deliberate steps to ease access...

Proverbs 20: 17 says, ‘What you get by dishonesty you may enjoy like the finest food, but sooner or later it will be like a mouthful of sand’. Joseph Murphy observes that, ‘As you would...

By DOROTHY CHISI – CHILDREN are a gift from God, but in this time and age, they often get exposed to Gender Based Violence (GBV) and negative parental habits that contribute to their poor upbringing....

By FRANK CHING’AMBU – FOR many years, the Copperbelt Province has predominantly been known as a copper mining region. This is due to the fact that since independence, successive governments focused their efforts solely on...

LAST week, the Ministry of Health reported that Lusaka had recorded more than 2000 cases of cholera out of which more than 50 people had already died. It is sad that every rainy season Zambia...

By PASSY HAACHIZO – CHOLERA has brought about a tide of change as people battle to contain its outbreak. The on-going cholera epidemic, which broke out in the last months of 2017, has taken no...

By CHRISTINE MWAABA – ENERGY generation in Zambia is presently dominated by hydro-electricity, which is not adequate to meet demand in the country. In 2015, Zambia’s demand for electricity was 1,949 megawatts (MW) while only...

WHEN the sun rises on the last Saturday of each month in Rwanda, it dawns over a country blanketed in silence. The ubiquitous motorcycle taxis, which stream across the city non-stop, disappear. Stores are shuttered,...

FROM the time the first case of cholera was reported in Lusaka on October 6,2017, the number of people getting infected with the disease had grown to more than 2,000. The Ministry of Health says...

MARTIN NYIRENDA, our Times Features writer, recently visited some of the trading places in Ndola which are punctuated with heaps of garbage, clogged furrows impregnated with sometimes human waste and a mass of humanity operating...