Category: Sustainable Development

Emirates shares an ‘eggstravaganza’ of Easter treats this April

Emirates shares an ‘eggstravaganza’ of Easter treats this April Dubai, UAE, 5 April 2023: Honouring Easter festivities this April, Emirates is celebrating with traditional lamb dishes in the lounges, baskets of warm hot cross buns served onboard, sweet surprises for kids, and an array of new family-friendly movies on ice. From 7-10 April, Emirates passengers flying in every travel class to select routes including Australia, USA, Canada, Europe, UK, Brazil, Philippines, South Africa, Mauritius, and Ghana, will enjoy a sumptuous selection of Easter treats onboard. Economy Class passengers will be offered a warm hot cross bun with their meal, or a delicious...

Kagem renews Zambian Carnivore Programme partnership for 5 years

NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WITH PICTURES 14 APRIL, 2023 Kagem renews Zambian Carnivore Programme partnership for 5 years LUFWANYAMA, ZAMBIA – Kagem Mining is proud to announce that it has renewed its partnership with the Zambian Carnivore Programme (ZCP) for a further five years. This new round of USD 250,000 funding – USD 50,000 per year – underscores the commitment of Kagem and its parent company, Gemfields, to supporting the wildlife-based economy and conservation efforts in Zambia, which is the host country of the Lufwanyama-based mine. Kagem is thought to be the world’s single largest-producing emerald mine, and it has...

Mkushi women empowered

Mkushi, April 14, 2023, ZANIS—Government has empowered women in Mkushi district, in Central province, with soft loans under the village bank scheme. Mkushi District Community Development Officer Priscilla Mangowani has disclosed to ZANIS that 175 women entrepreneurs have received loans under the department’s village bank loan scheme, within a period of 12 months. Mrs. Mangowani notes that the beneficiaries are mainly from Mkushi Central, Chalata and Nkumbi community development sub-centers. She says that although the principal loans involved varied amongst the beneficiaries, K80, 000 was the gross amount funded towards catering for the beneficiaries on the programme. She said that...

Met to put up weather stations-Chinsali

Met to put up weather stations-Chinsali

Chinsali, April 14, 2023, ZANIS—The Department of Meteorology in Muchinga Province is set to install automated weather stations across the region. Muchinga Province Assistant Meteorological Technician Helga Luhanga says the department has embarked on a project to install automated weather stations in a bid to have a wider scale of weather information in the region. She told ZANIS in an interview in Chinsali today, that so far only Chinsali district has an operational automated weather station installed, adding that this will now be spread to the rest of the province. Ms. Luhanga stated that the project also aims at increasing...

GEWEL Project improving people’s lives- Mainga Kabika

Lusaka, April 13th 2023 ZANIS—Government says it is optimistic that the implementation of the Girls Education and Women’s Empowerment and Livelihood (GEWEL) Project will assist in addressing challenges faced by women and girls. Gender Division Permanent Secretary, Mainga Kabika says women and girls have continued to be marginalized in the economic, political, cultural and social development process of national development. Ms Kabika notes that the GEWEL project aims to increase access to livelihood support for women and access to secondary education for disadvantaged adolescent’s girls in extremely poor households in selected districts. ZANIS reports that the PS said this today when she paid a...

Over 400 youths on CDF education bursaries-Milenge

Milenge, April 14, 2023. ZANIS—Over 400 vulnerable youths have been selected to benefit from the Secondary Boarding School and Skills Development Bursaries under the 2023 Constituency Development Fund (CDF) in Milenge District in Luapula Province Milenge Constituency Member of Parliament Saka Chonde said 329 of those are secondary school learners while 152 are youths set to attain skills training from various tertiary institutions. ZANIS reports that Mr. Chonde was impressed with the increase in the number of applicants as it was an indication that the community is beginning to value education. “There was a remarkable rise in the number of applicants and...

Start winter maize production, LM urges Government 

By Collins Chitumbo Leadership Movement (LM) Secretary General Jairos Ngoma has urged the United Party for National Development (UPND) ‘New Dawn’ Administration to focus on winter maize production to avert future mealie-meal shortages in Zambia. Speaking in an interview amid food shortages that have hit Zambia, Mr. Ngoma said with enough ground water and arable land to grow winter maize, it is not good for citizens to have no easy access to ‘nshima’. Ngoma reiterated Leadership Movement leader, Dr. Richard Silumbwe’s position for the country to take advantage of the young people and the Zambia National Service (ZNS) to plant winter...

How Africa’s Financial Sector Can Manage Risk in Volatile Times

How Africa’s Financial Sector Can Manage Risk in Volatile Times By Thabo Molefe, Head of Africa Regions, TransUnion Africa Right now, every financial services company in Africa wants the same thing: to grow revenues, and reduce their risk. But with consumers across the continent struggling in the face of rising inflation and interest rates, they’re experiencing a growing wave of non-performing loans (NPLs), which is putting a brake on their growth ambitions. At the same time, regulators and governments across the continent are challenging the financial services sector to drive greater financial inclusion. The sector is also grappling with challenges...

A HOLISTIC RECIPE FOR FARMING SUCCESS -Sebastian Scott and Rolf Shenton co-founder’s of Grassroots Trust in Zambia

A HOLISTIC RECIPE FOR FARMING SUCCESS By producing organic vegetables, fruits, chickens, eggs and pork in Zambia’s Kafue district with holistic management methods, Sebastian Scott earns a substantial premium for his products from retailers and families in the country’s capital, Lusaka. So much so that he could grow from a micro farmer whose products were transported to the nearby town of Kafue by bicycle to a successful operation that could afford to erect a whole learning center for other emerging farmers. Sebastian returned his native Zambia from Europe sixteen years ago. In Europe and earlier in Australia, he worked as...

HH reviving Zambia’s economy, brags Mbala MP Njavwa Simutowe

HH reviving Zambia’s economy, brags Mbala MP Njavwa Simutowe By Derrick Sinjela Northern Province domiciled Mbala Member of Parliament (MP) Njavwa Simutowe believes President Hakainde Hichilema’s United Party for National Development (UPND) Alliance New Dawn Administration is setting Zambia on a promising socio-economic trajectory, capable of ameliorating vulnerability and feminisation of poverty built by a tripartite woe of high-income inequality, high poverty and high unemployment. As skeptics continue to tag complacency as UPND’s biggest liability attributing economic challenges to Patriotic Front (PF) leadership of Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu and former First Female Vice President Inonge Mutukwa-Wina, an optimistic Mr. Simutowe...

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