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UNHCR Zambia Legal Aspects of Local Integration/Legal Framework for Refugee Protection Workshop

UNHCR Zambia Legal Aspects of Local Integration/Legal Framework for Refugee Protection Workshop


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Media Advisory Official opening of a Workshop on Legal Aspects of Local Integration and the Legal Framework for Refugee Protection in Zambia Guest of Honour: Minister of Home Affairs, Honourable Stephen Kampyongo (MP) Date: Tuesday 7th February 2017 Time: 08:50 hours Venue: Intercontinental Hotel, Lusaka (Makumbi Hall – 8th Floor) For more information: +260 979585832  Kelvin Shimoh UNHCR Zambia Public Information Associate Representation Office Lusaka Zambia Tel: +260 211 265873/6 Cell: +260979585832 www.unhcr.org | : Twitter: #unhcrzambia Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UnhcrZambia/ P.O. Box 32542 One Refugee Fleeing War, Is One Too Many Get Involved, Render Support to Refugees!  Join our #WithRefugees campaign...

LCC prosecutes bar owners

LCC prosecutes bar owners


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By Ms. Brenda Katongola,  Lusaka City Council  (LCC) Assistant Public Relations Manager THE Lusaka Fast Track Court has convicted and fined five bar owners for operating beyond the stipulated hours. The five were part of the 20 bars that were served with summons during an operation conducted by a combined team of State and Council Police officers over the weekend. The five who were convicted and fined K10, 000 each or six (6) months in default, appeared before Magistrate Anna Holland today (Monday, February 6, 2017). The five were part of the 20 that were issued with summons after being...

Visa Signs Strategic Partnership Deal with Atlas Mara

Visa Signs Strategic Partnership Deal with Atlas Mara


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Partnership aims to drive electronic payment adoption and financial inclusion in Sub Saharan Africa   Lusaka, Zambia – 26 Jan 2017: Visa (NYSE:V), a global payments technology company, today signed a commercial partnership with Atlas Mara Limited (LON: ATMA), the sub-Saharan Africa financial services group, as part of a wider strategic partnership to introduce a dynamic suite of payment solutions and expand access to electronic payments within the Sub-Saharan Africa region.   Through this partnership, Atlas Mara’s banks will be able to leverage already existing Visa payment platforms, such as mVisa and Visa Direct, to provide their customers new ways...

DEC PRESS STATEMENT 31st JANUARY 2017

DEC PRESS STATEMENT 31st JANUARY 2017


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Lusaka, Tuesday 31st January, 2017 – The Drug Enforcement Commission through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit (AMLIU) in Western Province has arrested a Deputy School Head Teacher for money laundering involving over K17, 000. Wamuntima Nyambe, 32, a Deputy Head Teacher of House No. 4 Namushakende in Nalolo District has been arrested for theft by public servant, fraudulent false accounting and money laundering contrary to the Laws of Zambia. Particulars of the offence are that Wamunyima Nyambe, a class teacher and acting as Human Resource Officer at Nalolo District Education Office, on 24th December, 2015 by virtue of his employment and...

African Heads of State make Historic Commitment to Advance Immunization in Africa

African Heads of State make Historic Commitment to Advance Immunization in Africa


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It includes 10 commitments, including increasing vaccine-related funding, strengthening supply chains and delivery systems, and making universal access to vaccines a cornerstone of health and development efforts ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, January 31, 2017/ — Today, Heads of State from across Africa adopted a Declaration on Universal Access to Immunization in Africa, in which they endorsed the Addis Declaration on Immunization (http://APO.af/9BsLoF), a historic and timely pledge to ensure that everyone in Africa – regardless of who they are or where they live – receives the full benefits of immunization. The endorsement was issued during the 28th African Union (AU) Summit...

Mary Tyler Moore, Icon of the Seventies’ Single Working Woman, Dies at 80

Mary Tyler Moore, Icon of the Seventies’ Single Working Woman, Dies at 80


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Roxanne Robinson WWDJanuary 26, 2017 Mary Tyler Moore, an actress whose name defined a Seventies sitcom and inspired legions of independent, career-driven women, died Wednesday at the age of 80. After spending her early years in Brooklyn, her family relocated to the West Coast when she was eight. A trained ballet dancer and former model, she got her start on the small screen dancing in commercials during the “Ozzie and Harriet” show, before concentrating more on acting. Beginning in 1961, she perfected the newly married wife as “Laurie Petrie” on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” opposite the program’s namesake. On...

Michelle Obama once spoke about how Mary Tyler Moore had inspired her, and the reasons are pretty incredible

Michelle Obama once spoke about how Mary Tyler Moore had inspired her, and the reasons are pretty incredible


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Celebrity Alim Kheraj Hello Giggles January 26, 2017 Michelle Obama once spoke about how Mary Tyler Moore had inspired her, and the reasons are pretty incredible While tributes and remembrances are being shared, we’ve come across and old interview the former First Lady, Michelle Obama, gave about Mary Tyler Moore, and it’s so darn inspiring. It was sadly announced yesterday that iconic television icon Mary Tyler Moore had passed away at aged 80. It had previously been reported that Moore had been admitted to hospital and was in a grave condition. However, her spokesperson, Mara Buxbaum, confirmed that she had upsettingly passed away....

Chipata upcoming artist bemoan lack of attention   

Chipata upcoming artist bemoan lack of attention   


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By Hellen Nachula Nsokolo Chipata musician BoyTizo has lamented that artists who are based out of the big 5 main central business towns in Zambia are considered to be untalented. BoyTizo whose names are Kepton Kumwenda based in the Eastern Province town of Chipata formerly known as Fort Jameson said that the media and Zambians in general should try asses or pay attention to talent outside Lusaka, Kitwe, Ndola, Kabwe and Livingstone as God has blessed the human race differently. The determined musician said that small areas like Jamaica have produced Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Yellow man, Peter Tosh and...

Roof Kachulu Market, cries Shadreck David Nyendwa

Roof Kachulu Market, cries Shadreck David Nyendwa


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By Sibeso Nalufu in Kabwe, Central Province MARKETEERS at Kabwe’s Katondo market in the Central Province have felt neglected following the Government’s failure through local Government Minister Vincent Mwale to reconstruct the blown off roof at nearby Kachulu market. Kachulu Market chairman Shadreck David Nyendwa remains aggrieved that the Resident Development Committee is just interested in pushing the Patriotic Front (PF) Government led by President Edgar Chagwa Lungu to rehabilitate the damaged roof. Mr.  Nyendwa regrets that the market had remained without a roof for more than a year, though conceding that authorities delivered a few iron sheets at the...

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