Category: Gender & health

World Youth and Leadership Foundation Limited (WYLF-LTD) IDPD Statement Media Friday 4th December 2020

As Zambia Joins the rest of the world in commemorating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the World Youth and Leadership Foundation Limited would like to call on all stakeholders, individual youths to look into the plight of persons living with disabilities. As an organisation we note with concern that among thousands of challenges our Youths and children with disabilities are facing desclimination has remained one of the issues as alot of people still not willing to associate with persons with disabilities. According the research and interaction with stakeholders organisations and persons living with disabilities, the World Youth and...

Disability activist James Mwitwa petitions creation of Parley liaison committee

By Derrick Sinjela THE International Day for Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) organising committee chairperson James Mwitwa has commended the government for attaching great importance to issues affecting peers with a petition seeking creation of a liaison committee appointed by Clerk of the National Assembly, Cecelia Nsenduluka-Mbewe. Reading a Thursday 3rd December 2020 braile speech at Kuku ground in Lusaka’s Chawama Constituency, during celebrations marking International Day for Persons with Disabilities, themed: “Building Back Better: toward a Disability inclusive, accessible and sustainable post COVID-19 Zambia,” Mr. Mwitwa told Community Development Minister Ms. Kampamba Mulenga-Chewe and her Permanent Secretary (PS) Pamela Kabamba...

Voter Registration will not be extended, insists Kryticous Patrick Nshindano

By Derrick Sinjela in Lusaka, reporting for Kwilanzi News Zambia ELECTORAL Commission of Zambia (ECZ) Chief Electoral Officer Kryticous Patrick Nshindano insists that the electoral body headed by Justice Essau Chulu and Ms. Emily Munthali-Sikazwe will not extend the Countrywide Voter Registration beyond the on-going Sunday 9th November to Saturday 12th December 2020 threshold. Franked by ECZ Acting Public Relations Manager Sylvia Bwalya, Nshindano an economist by profession assured citizens that the Commission is on course as the registration task reached a fourth and final phase ending on the Saturday 12th of December 2020. Responding to a question posed by...

Democratic Party President Harry Kalaba outlines agriculture and industrialization as priority sectors to Zambia’s economic recovery

Democratic Party President Harry Kalaba outlines agriculture and industrialization as priority sectors to Zambia’s economic recovery By DP Media Team Monday 2nd November, 2020 DEMOCRATIC Party (DP) has reiterated that Zambia has enough resources that if put to good use can improve the economy and subsquent end the high poverty levels being experienced in the country. This is achievable once right policies are put in place. The Party believes that agriculture and industrialisation agenda remains the solution to the problems the country is currently facing. DP President who is also the 2021 Presidential candidate Mr. Harry Kalaba observes that Zambia’s...

STATEMENT BY THE YOUNG AFRICAN LEADERS INITIATIVE (YALI) ON THE FAILURE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF ZAMBIA (AMENDMENT) BILL NO. 10 OF 2019 AND THE WAY FORWARD. DELIVERED MONDAY, 02 NOVEMBER 2020 AT MIKA LODGE, JESMONDINE, BY ANDREW NTEWEWE, YALI PRESIDENT

STATEMENT BY THE YOUNG AFRICAN LEADERS INITIATIVE (YALI) ON THE FAILURE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF ZAMBIA (AMENDMENT) BILL NO. 10 OF 2019 AND THE WAY FORWARD. DELIVERED MONDAY, 02 NOVEMBER 2020 AT MIKA LODGE, JESMONDINE, BY ANDREW NTEWEWE, YALI PRESIDENT On Thursday last week saw the failure by the National Assembly of Zambia to open up the Constitution of Zambia (Amendment) Bill No. 10 at Second Reading for any further amendments and passage further passage at Third Reading. When the Bill was tabled in Parliament, two things were expected to happen: either pass the Bill with or without amendments or...

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Global crimes against journalists worry Zambia’s Media Liaison Committee Chairperson Enock Ngoma

Global crimes against journalists worry Zambia’s Media Liaison Committee Chairperson Enock Ngoma By Derrick Sinjela THE Zambian Media Liaison Committee (MLC) joined the rest of the world in commemorating ‘The International Day to end Impunity for Crimes against Journalists which falls annually  on November 2, under the auspices of the United Nations, desiring a better and safer reporting environment for pen-pushers and media workers. The Zambian Media Liaison Committee Chairperson Enock Ngoma called on political players, the police and the general citizenry to desist from harassing journalists during the course of their reporting duty. In a Monday 2nd November, 2020...

United States Enables Zambia’s Leadership Role in SADC Regional Seed Export Policy

The United States and Zambia Partnering Together EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LUSAKA, ZAMBIA NR/1251/10/27/2020 CONTACT: Sean McIntosh FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Public Affairs Officer October 27, 2020 Phone: 357000 United States Enables Zambia’s Leadership Role in SADC Regional Seed Export Policy LUSAKA – Today, U.S. government, through its Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), in close partnership with the Government of the Republic of Zambia, commissioned a pilot seed export from Zambia to Mozambique produced by emerging seed company, Lake Agriculture. The USAID-funded Feed the Future Southern Africa Seed Trade Project awarded...

Civil Society Constitution Agenda (CiSCA) Acting Chairperson Judith Mulenga’s Statement on the ‘Fall of Bill 10’

  CiSCA Statement on the Fall of Bill 10 Lusaka, Friday 30th October 2020: The Civil Society Constitution Agenda (CiSCA) joins the rest of Zambia in celebrating the fall of the infamous Bill 10. The fall was the only logical conclusion because the National Dialogue Act and its accompanying National Dialogue Forum gave birth to a stillborn Bill 10. We further resoundingly applaud the patriotic judicious Members of Parliament that refused to betray the people of Zambia. By defeating Bill 10 in Parliament after so many ploys by the PF Government and their cronies to hoodwink Zambians into believing that if...

The Centre for Trade Policy and Development(CTPD) is a non-profit, membership based trade policy think tank established in 2004. Formerly known as the ‘Civil Society Trade Network of Zambia’ (CSTNZ),

About Us The Centre for Trade Policy and Development(CTPD) is a non-profit, membership based trade policy think tank established in 2004. Formerly known as the ‘Civil Society Trade Network of Zambia’ (CSTNZ), the organisation has progressed from being a network to being a think tank. The organisation is affiliated to Africa Trade Networks (ATN), Our World Is Not For Sale Network (OWINFS), Southern African People Solidarity Network (SAPSN) and has a membership of 16 local Non-governmental Organisations and individual members. CTPD aims to promote equitable pro-poor trade policies and practices in Zambia through trade reform at national, regional and international...

THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LION…James Kasanda Musendeka Lukuku

THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LION…James Kasanda Musendeka Lukuku By Dr. Cephas Mukuka Political Researcher I WOKE up early on the Sunday 1st November 2020 not to exercise as I do on daily basis, but to write my assignments from school. Suddenly I went into a trance,I saw myself writing a message of condolence; it was on James Kasanda Musendeka Lukuku, and that he had died. Slightly after 5 minutes I got a call from my elder brother, Charles Mukuka , from Ndola. The message was that the Republucan Progressive Party (RPP), President Lukuku had died. I then explained the...

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