Category: Sustainable Development

MultiChoice Launches South Africa’s Epic Series “SHAKA iLEMBE” Lusaka, Zambia – The wait is over! MultiChoice has launched the much anticipated prime-time drama series SHAKA iLEMBE

By DERRICK SINJELA and THERESA BWALYA KALENGA THE 12-part series tells the story of the famous Zulu King and the events that shaped his remarkable life. Speaking at an intimate premiere in Lusaka, Leah Kooma, Managing Director at MultiChoice Zambia said: “We understand the importance of showcasing the diverse narratives that make Africa so unique. We are committed to bringing you exceptional content that uplifts, educates, and entertains. With shows like “Shaka ilembe,” we aim to provide a platform for our homegrown talent, enabling them to share their stories with the world.” “By joining the DStv and GOtv family, you...

Tourism Minister Rodney Malindi Sikumba   upbeat with $100 million boost from World Bank

By DERRICK SINJELA Minister of Tourism Rodney Malindi Sikumba has appreciated the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors for approving a US$100 million credit line designed to strengthen Zambia’s nature-based economy and increase economic opportunities in emerging tourism destinations in the Liuwa Plains National Park, Source of the Zambezi, and Kasaba Bay. In a Tuesday, 13th June, 2023 Press Statement, Mr. Sikumba expressed gratitude to the World Bank on the milestone attainment with the Zambian team after successful negotiations. “I wish to show my appreciation to the Project Preparation Team (PPT) for burning midnight oil to ensure stringent and robust...

Auditor General Office’s Leadership Vacuum worries CLRI’s Paul Mundia Hakoola

By DERRICK SINJELA Adding a civic voice on alleged missing funds at Anti-Corruption Commission, Continental Leadership Research Institute (CLRI) Executive Director Paul Mundia Hakoola holds a view that institutions of governance and law enforcement must work in harmony and in one accord to achieve maximum results in law enforcement. However, recent happenings were the Auditor General Office (AGO) letting a cat out of a hat that proceeds forfeited in the Faith Musonda case, anger Mr. Hakoola as such insinuations undermine gains in public confidence in the fight against corruption. A perturbed Hakoola laments in a Press Statement that if the...

Henry Kyambalesa on Zambia’s:  Advocacy for Economic Liberalization

By Henry Kyambalesa Saturday, June 10, 2023 The fate of less-developed countries has become one of modern civilizat­ion’s major sources of concern. The extreme and persistent poverty, hunger, ignorance, and disease which have come to characterize life in such countries are certainly unprece­dented in human history. Unfortu­nately, there are clearly no easy answers or quick fixes to the seemingly self-perpetuat­ing socioeconomic problems facing less-developed countries. However, three elements are fundamental to the improve­ment of the quality of life in less-developed countries. Firstly and foremost, govern­ment officials in such countries need to make a sustained effort to contribute positively to the...

China, DRC upgrade ties to comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership

Xinuha, May 27, 2023   The presidents of China and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced on Friday the elevation of the bilateral relationship from a strategic partnership of win-win cooperation to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership. China and the DRC are strategic partners with a profound traditional friendship forged in the course of fighting for national liberation and opposing colonial aggression, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in his talks with visiting DRC President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo in Beijing. Bilateral cooperation in various fields has yielded fruitful results in recent years, and China has been the DRC’s largest...

Health Practitioner & Health Facility Fee reduction coming –Sylvia Tembo-Masebo

By Derrick Sinjela Health Minister Sylvia Tembo-Masebo says the Government’s desire is to prioritise job creation through targeted intervention and activities that promote talents and creativity is on course just as is a vow to reduce health practitioner and facility fees. In a speech read by Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary In-charge of Technical Services Dr. George Sinyangwe a Tuesday, 15th May, 2023 launch of the HPCZ 2022-2026 Strategic Plan, Ms. Tembo-Masebo’s word that Government is working on instruments to reduce the fees payable by health practitioners, health facilities and training institutions won an immediate applause by the audience witnessed...

Douglas Munsaka Siakalima appoints Higher Education Authority Board

By Francis Maingaila Mwiinga Minister of Education (MoE) Douglas Munsaka Siakalima unveiled and inaugurated the new Board of Directors for the Siakalima appoints Higher Education Authority Board (HEA) calling for the correction of all anomalies that existed during the absence of the board. And speaking earlier, MoE Permanent Secretary PS for Administration (PS-Admin) Ms. Noriana Muneku expressed a sigh of relief now that the board headed by Professor Levy Siaminwe is inaugurated, after a six (6) year lull, when all matters had to be resolved by MoE technocrats. The full Higher Education Authority Board is: “Chairperson Levy Siaminwe,  Vice Chairperson...

Henry Kyambalesa on Zambia: Agriculture and Food Security

By Henry Kyambalesa Monday, April 24th, 2023 kyambalesa@gmail.com Meaningful socioeconomic development cannot be attained in any given country where the labour force is composed of starving, sickly and illiterate citizens. In this article, I wish to suggest viable ways and means by which the Zambian government—and any other national government as a matter of fact—can boost agricultural production as well as enhance the country’s food security. I am prompted to share my views on this subject by the current incidence of smuggling and shortages of mealie-meal. According to the resolutions of the World Food Summit held in Italy in November...

Xi Focus: Xi urges sustained efforts to curb desertification

Xi Focus: Xi urges sustained efforts to curb desertification Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-07 03:20:15 General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Xi Jinping, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, presides over a symposium on strengthening the comprehensive prevention and control of desertification and promoting the construction of crucial ecological projects, including the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program, and delivers an important speech in Bayannur, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, June 6, 2023. (Xinhua/Ju Peng) BAYANNUR, Inner Mongolia, June 6 (Xinhua) — Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC)...

Xiconomics: China’s green development philosophy is contributing to global sustainable growth

Xiconomics: China’s green development philosophy is contributing to global sustainable growth

Xiconomics: China’s green development philosophy is contributing to global sustainable growth Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-05 22:58:01 BEIJING, June 5 (Xinhua) — The life of Maksat Abilgaziev, a resident of Zhanatas, a small town in southern Kazakhstan, has changed immensely since a Chinese company built a wind farm there a few years ago. The 33-year-old was once an electrical engineer at a local phosphate mine company. Believing the future of his homeland and Kazakhstan lies in clean energy, especially wind energy, he quit the job in 2020 and became a wind power engineering trainee at the Zhanatas wind farm. “Our...

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