Category: Sustainable Development

President Edgar Chagwa Lungu@Nelson Mandela Peace Summit Monday 24 September 2018 UN General Assembly Hall New York, USA

President Edgar Chagwa Lungu@Nelson Mandela Peace Summit Monday 24 September 2018 UN General Assembly Hall New York, USA

President of Zambia His Excellency Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu, Ministers Hon. Alexander Chiteme (National Development Planning), Hon. Joseph Malanji (Foreign Affairs), Hon. Elizabeth Phiri (Gender), Zambia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Lazarous Kapambwe and Presidential spokesperson Amos Chanda attending the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit on Monday 24 September 2018 in the UN General Assembly Hall in New York, USA. The focus of the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit is on Global Peace in honour of the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela.   The Peace Summit offers the opportunity for world leaders to renew their commitment to global...

Illegal Kamwala shops demolished by Lusaka City Council

Illegal Kamwala shops demolished by Lusaka City Council

By Mike Sichula The Speech Analyst 27.10.2018 THE Lusaka City Council has sent a strong warning to residents operating in the Central business district that whether poor or rich, no one should disregard existing by-laws when putting up structures in the City. Last night the Local authority demolished a block of shops illegally constructed in the railway reserve in Kamwala area. The block of shops was was constructed by Down Town Shopping Complex proprietor without the grand permission from City of Lusaka Planning Authority contrary to Section 65 of the Urban and Regional Planning Act No. 3 of 2015. Council...

Dr. Onesmus Munyati encourages students to build interest in Sciences

Dr. Onesmus Munyati encourages students to build interest in Sciences

By Choolwe Lawrence Mweemba, Public Relations Officer, Texila American University, Lusaka, Zambia. Office: +260 97 1269506, Mobile: +260 96 5135213 Skype: pro@tau.edu.zm YOUNG people in Zambia have been encouraged to build interest in pursuing sciences if the country is to achieve meaningful development. Speaking at the 8th Texila Knowledge Talk Series in commemoration of the Mole Day, Senior Lecturer at University of Zambia in the Department of Chemistry, Onesmus Munyati, said a good perception of science is important especially among females. During a Thursday October 23rd, 2018 presentation, Dr. Munyati said that there is need for students to embrace sciences and...

LAFARGE ZAMBIA cleans Freedom Compound

By  Zambia Communications Lafarge Zambia employees on Friday 26th October 2018, conducted a Voluntary Community Service (VCS) by cleaning up Freedom Compound (Township), which is next to the plant. The clean-up exercise involved to pick up all the garbage along the drainages and clean up the illegal dumpsites on TAP Road. Lafarge Zambia takes Health and Safety as a core value, hence the cleaning exercise which was to promote wellness as well as sensitize the community on the important of preserving our environment. This exercise was done also in line with the Presidential monthly, ‘Keep Zambia Clean, Green and Healthy Campaign’. Speaking at clean...

Reconnecting Chief Katuta Heritage Roots- 3000 people in Lupososhi witness Lewis Mwape’s “Our Child, Our Future” Campaign launch at Kalaba Primary School

Reconnecting Chief Katuta Heritage Roots- 3000 people in Lupososhi witness Lewis Mwape’s “Our Child, Our Future” Campaign launch at Kalaba Primary School

By Derrick Sinjela in Lusaka EDUCATION unlocks the future of the nation. After World War II; Japan invested in the education of its people with correct curriculum to develop the nation and her people. Rural Development needs broad thinking with a curriculum that is dovetailed into long-term economic vision and invest not only in today but in the tomorrow generations. Many of our Rural Areas are cut off from development. Educating our future is not about just building the Primary School or Secondary School or University and then you create barriers to access education. Poverty is one of the barriers...

Ministry of National Development Planning staff donate sanitary products, foodstuffs to female prisoners

Ministry of National Development Planning staff donate sanitary products, foodstuffs to female prisoners

By Chibaula D. Silwamba (Mr.) Spokesperson MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING Tel: +260211252409 Email: chibaula.silwamba@mndp.gov.zm Website: www.mndp.gov.zm LUSAKA, Friday, 26 October 2018 – Staff of the Ministry of National Development Planning have donated assorted sanitary products, foodstuffs and other essentials to female prisoners and their children at Lusaka Central Correctional facility as part of the commemoration of Zambia’s 54th Independence anniversary. In a message read on his behalf by Director of Human Resources and Administration Mr. Ignatius Daka during the donation, Ministry of National Development Planning Permanent Secretary (Development Planning and Administration) Mr. Chola Chabala encouraged the prisoners to be of...

NEW GLOBAL COMMITMENT TO PRIMARY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AT ASTANA CONFERENCE

NEW GLOBAL COMMITMENT TO PRIMARY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AT ASTANA CONFERENCE

https://www.facebook.com/beate.wedekind/videos/10215721316878571/ ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN (25 October 2018) – United Nations Member States today unanimously agreed to the Declaration of Astana, vowing to strengthen their primary health care systems as an essential step toward achieving universal health coverage. The Declaration of Astana reaffirms the historic 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata, the first-time world leaders committed to primary health care.  “Today, instead of health for all, we have health for some,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). “We all have a solemn responsibility to ensure that today’s declaration on primary health care enables every person, everywhere to exercise...

“The Depth of My Footprints” by Ng’andu Peter Magande

“The Depth of My Footprints” by Ng’andu Peter Magande

“Perhaps as a way of fixing me, Government ministries and departments, that were customers of ZANACO, were directed to divert their deposits to private commercial banks. As part of liberalisation, government ministers refused to bank their ministry’s public funds with the people’s bank. Some ministries withdrew money held in ZANACO accounts and opened new accounts with private banks. They preferred to deal with private banks where they personally negotiated and got higher interest rates, some of which was deposited into their personal accounts. One minister even drove to the Bank of Zambia with trunks to collect money for his ministry....

First Female President of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia! Ambassador SahleWork Zewde sworn

First Female President of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia! Ambassador SahleWork Zewde sworn

African Union ECOSOCC Congratulations to #Ethiopia on the appointmemt of the #First #Female #President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia! Ambassador Sahle-Work Zewde, a top official with the United Nations, just got sworn in as the President of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia! Ambassador SahleWork Zewde was until recently, the UN Director General at its offices in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. She is currently the Special representative of the UN Secretary-General to the African Union, AU. Sahle-work has a rich ambassadorial track record having served as Ethiopian ambassador to several countries previously. She is now officially the first woman president of Ethiopia, after a full house...

The Secretary-General of The United Nations Mr. António Guterres Message For UN Day Wednesday 24 October 2018

The Secretary-General of The United Nations Mr. António Guterres Message For UN Day Wednesday 24 October 2018

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2018-10/united-nations-day-guterres-message.html UNITED Nations Day marks the birthday of our founding Charter – the landmark document that embodies the hopes, dreams and aspirations of “we the peoples”.   Every day, the women and men of the United Nations work to give practical meaning to that Charter.    Despite the odds and the obstacles, we never give up.    Extreme poverty is being reduced but we see inequality growing.   Yet we don’t give up because we know by reducing inequality we increase hope and opportunity and peace around the world.   Climate change is moving faster than we are, but we...

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