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PRESS STATEMENT Lusaka, Saturday 04th April, 2020. The Drug Enforcement Commission has arrested four (4) people including three professed cadres of a named political party and one (1) Lusaka based business woman in Central Province for trafficking in Cannabis weighing 133.69 Kilograms, contrary to Chapter 96 of the Laws of Zambia. These are identified as Harriet Mwape, 51, a business woman of John Laing Compound in Lusaka and three (3) other cadres of which two (2) females are also peasant farmers in Serenje district of Central Province Identified as Beatrice Mofya, 51, and Jacqueline Mofya, 20, while the man has been identified as...

Father Jones Mutemwakwenda’s “Thought for the Day” Saturday 4th April 2020 We have come to the end of this week. Where did you spend your week? We spent the week in our respective homes. Today, I would like us to focus our thoughts on the meaning of a home. A home is a place of safety. This is one of the reasons the Government has told everyone of us to stay at home, protect the National Health Service and save lives. Let me give you a list of things that a home provides to keep us safe: A home is...

Dr. Frankson Musukwa-LLM Executive Director Zambia Deaf Youth and Women (ZDYW) Press Statement- 4th April, 2020 For Immediate Release Kitwe- Zambia lags far behind when it comes to accessible information and medical services for the deaf. In coronavirus times, with poor access to information fear this could be deadly to Deaf community should we fail to contain the situation sooner than later. where does this leave us in spirit of our national slogan that call for leaving no one behind? We are depressed that not enough is being done to ensure deaf people have adequate access to information especially those...

PRESS STATEMENT BY PATRIOTIC FRONT SECRETARY GENERAL HON DAVIES MWILA ON THE NANGULA AND CHUMBWE WARD BY ELECTION VICTORIES . Felicitations and greetings to all in the name of peace and unity. On behalf of the President His Excellency Dr Edgar Chagwa Lungu and the Patriotic Front Central Committee, it is once again my privilege to congratulate the Party on registering victories in yesterday’s two scheduled by elections. Congratulations to our Candidate Cde Thabo Kayando for emerging victorious in the Nangula ward by election under Limulunga district of Western Province and to Cde Edmond Mpongwe who went unopposed in the...

PRESS RELEASE BAT’S MOVE ON COVID 19 VACCINE A MOCKERY Lusaka 3rd April, 2020. The Zambia Media Network against tobacco (Zamnat) is disappointed to learn that British American Tobacco (BAT) the producers of cigarettes is trying to find a vaccine to COVID 19 when they know that they are the major contributors to the deaths of people because what they produce contributes highly to COVID 19. It is a mockery to humanity for BAT to produce tobacco that kills people and then say that they are coming up with a vaccine to cure coronavirus when it would be less effective...