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United States Awards Small Grants to Zambian Community Organizations

The United States and Zambia Partnering Together EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LUSAKA, ZAMBIA NR/1259/12/22/2020 CONTACT: Sean McIntosh Public Affairs Officer December 22, 2020 Phone: 357000     LUSAKA – The U.S. Embassy recently awarded K1.3 million to six Zambian community-based organizations through the U.S. Ambassador’s Special Self-Help small grant program.  These grants will expand economic opportunities and improve the standard of living in communities in four provinces.   The Special Self-Help program grants provide financial support from the American people directly to Zambian community organizations committed to improving the lives of community members through sustainable projects that...

Broadcom Records 250% Revenue Growth Since 2015, R&D Expenses Surge Amid 5G Take Off

Data presented by Buy Shares indicate that semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom’s research and development expenses have soared by 51%. The expenses are for the period between 2017 and 2020. Broadcom’s China revenue drops as US increases In 2017, the costs amounted to $3.29 billion, while last year, the number stood at $4.97 billion. In 2018, the expenses was $3.77 billion while in 2019, the figure stood at $4.7 billion. The research also overviewed the company’s revenue which has grown by 250.29% between 2015 and 2020. Last year, the revenue was at $23.89 billion, while in 2015, Broadcom recorded $6.82 billion in revenue. In...

H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa confirmed for Mining Indaba Virtual

              President of South Africa has confirmed to deliver the presidential keynote address at the upcoming Mining Indaba Virtual LONDON, United Kingdom, January 5, 2021/ — Investing in African Mining Indaba (Mining Indaba) (https://MiningIndaba.com), part of Hyve Group Plc is honoured to announce that His Excellency, Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa has confirmed to deliver the presidential keynote address at the upcoming Mining Indaba Virtual. Following last year’s announcements, H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa will be joining the already confirmed president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), His Excellency, Félix Tshisekedi and H.E. Julius...

Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis Lacks Leadership; The U.S. Can Help Fill the Void

Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis Lacks Leadership; The U.S. Can Help Fill the Void

By Jeffrey Smith (bit.ly/3neAyFK) is the Founding Director of Vanguard Africa. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Vanguard Newspapers.   The Anglophone crisis has registered among the world’s ‘most neglected,’ according to assessments by the Norwegian Refugee Council LAGOS, Nigeria, January 5, 2021/ — Over the last several years, since at least 2016, an inconceivably violent conflict has ravaged the Central African nation of Cameroon. The daily barrage of bloody images posted to social media and the accounts of cruelty and likely war crimes (bit.ly/2Xab15Z) have – at least to date – not been enough to galvanize meaningful or...

Central Province will grow more maize, predicts Sydney Mushanga

By Derrick Sinjela CENTRAL Province Minister Sydney Mushanga is optimistic that the province will record a substantial maize harvest in the 2020/2021 farming season. And Mr. Mushanga expressed delight in an interview that the distribution of fertiliser and seeds ahead of the 2020/2021 farming season was successfully done and the province did not record any fraud. Currently serving as Patriotic Front (PF) Bwacha Member of Parliament (MP), Mr. Mushanga says the province has continued receiving positive results as inputs were delivered on time for the first time over a couple of years. “I am happy that to note that as...

Zambia’s political climate worries Bishop Hard Mambo

By Derrick Sinjela FORMER Civil society for Constitution Agenda (CiSCA) Board Chairperson Bishop John Hard Mambo is alarmed at the deteriorating human rights situation in Zambia ahead of the country’s 2021 polls, worsened on Wednesday 23rd January 2020, when a National Prosecution Authority (NPA) Prosecutor Nsama Nsama Chipyoka and Joseph Kaunda of the United Party for National Development (UPND) were killed by two live bullets. A fortnight and a day after the shooting, Bishop Mambo has noted with dismay the increased hostility by state officials and security agents in Zambia towards the media and opposition elements in the run-up to...

Clean your house, Zambia Historian Professor Bizeck Phiri implores ECZ

By Derrick Sinjela A UNIVERSITY of Zambia Historian Professor Bizeck Phiri has advised the Electoral Commission of Zambia to put its house in order so as to guarantee a free, fair and credible Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government election on Thursday 12th August 2021. Professor Phiri has noted that as at Tuesday 7th January 2021, the electoral body had 219 days within which to put to ‘Elections House’ in appropriate order to ensure the team led by Chairperson Justice Essau Chulu and Chief Electoral Officer Patrick Kryticous Nshindano do not become ‘Blame Ducks’ due to failure to do their work...

Electricity reaches Senior Chief Ntambu and Chief Sailunga’s area’s

By Derrick Sinjela AS Zambia increases access to electricity, the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) Chief Executive Officer Clement Silavwe is delighted that Kasanjiku Mini Hydro Power Station in Mwinilunga District of the North-Western Province is set to benefit over 12,000 people at a cost of US$8.6 million and scheduled for handover in 2021. An elated Mr. Silavwe said in an interview in Lusaka that the Kasanjiku project located on the Kasanjiku River in Mwinilunga District of the North-Western Province will improve the quality of life for beneficiaries at household and community level in both Senior Chief Ntambu and Chief Sailunga’s...

Lying, bullying and bribing people

Fred M’membe President of the Socialist Party Garden Compound, Lusaka January 4, 2021 As we approach August 12 lies will increase from our politicians. As they always do during election periods, attempts will be made to deceive and manipulate our people with mealie-meal, salt, sugar, cooking oil, soap, chitenges, t-shirts and some little amounts of money. This is the way they try to buy votes cheaply. But the Zambian people shouldn’t forget Michael Sata’s great teaching on this score: Don’t Kubeba – take whatever they bring, and even ask them for more, but don’t vote for them! Don’t let them...

Review and Forecast for the 2020/2021 Football Season

By John Dino Banda THE world’s popular and beautiful sport football suffered a blow from a sucker punch inflicted by the deadly Coronavirus (covid 19), menace together with other sports disciplines world over not being spared. For soccer fans globally, the past year 2020 was rather a calendar gone without action on the pitch as the world soccer governing Body – the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) but also continental confederations halted games in Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America, and else where halted games to help curtail the spreed of the disease. This was done in line with guidance from...

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