Category: Sustainable Development

Monday, 12th December, 2022 Press Release Tobacco Free Association of Zambia TOFAZA) New report exposes how the tobacco industry exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to increase its profits at the detriment of public health

Press Release Tobacco Free Association of Zambia. Date: Monday, 12th December, 2022 Contact: Brenda Chitindi. Executive Director. +260979441781 Email: bichitindi@yahoo.com New report exposes how the tobacco industry exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to increase its profits at the detriment of public health. THE Tobacco Free Association of Zambia (TOFAZA) applauds the launching of a report titled, COVID-19 and Tobacco Industry Interference in Africa by the African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA). The report produced following a study conducted in 2021 which explored how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted on tobacco control in Sub Saharan Africa, as well as how the tobacco industry exploited...

Beware: ‘Danger’ Within by Samuel Kasankha

  BEWARE: ‘DANGER’ WITHIN By Samuel Kasankha I touched my little farm in midweek only to find the new caretaker had renamed our dog “Danger”. It elicited an irritated chuckle out of me. Danger really? What a foolish name for our beautiful dog. These people from Katete don’t quite change. When I lived there in 1970 to 71, every other dog was called Danger! Ours was the only Tiger, till we relocated to Chipata where we found almost as many Tigers as Dangers and Bingos and Scoobies. Lions too but never other dangerous animals like Elephant or Hippo. The Danger...

*POLITICAL TEMPERATURE IN ZAMBIA 🇿🇲 DECEMBER 2022*. *By : Dr. Edgar Ng’oma ~Political Analyst* .

*A MUST READ* *POLITICAL TEMPERATURE IN ZAMBIA 🇿🇲 DECEMBER 2022*. *By : Dr. Edgar Ng’oma ~Political Analyst* . In 2019 I did an article entitled as above; *POLITICAL TEMPERATURE IN ZAMBIA* ” In that article where I did a political weather focus for that day and the election in 2021. For those who remember that political focus, everything which was written happened exactly đź’Ż word by word. I wrote among many things that if general elections were held that day UPND and President Hakainde Hichilema would carry the day and form government. I did not only say that I went...

Zambia’s Nshima Politics ….Friday, 9th December, 2022

Zambia’s Nshima Politics By DERRICK SINJELA Friday, 9th December, 2022 Zambia, or Hakainde Sammy Hichilema (HSH7) faces three major huddles to prosperity; high income Inequality; high poverty and high unemployment! For HSH7 to win the Thursday, 13th August, 2026 election, the UPND Alliance New Dawn Administration must deliver money in people’s pockets, ameliorate ease poverty and attain these targets through job creation. Failing to improve economic plight of citizens, inability to eradicate poverty and letting unemployment blossom will act as reason for people to replace Hakainde Hichilema with Socialist Party Zambia President Dr Fred Namakando M’membe. As stated time without...

Fertilizer supply value chain in stiff focus!

    By Kelvin Chisanga (African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP) Conference Participant and Presenter) AS we end-up day two today of AFAP Regional Public-Private Dialogue, here are some few things that I presented to the forum of experts and industry captains gathered at Radisson Blu Hotel in Lusaka, a participation which was drawn from seven African nations and the meeting has run from 7-8th December, 2022 under the tutelage support of COMESA-ACTESA. Zambia’s total fertilizer capacity required per annum is around the region of about 850,000 metric tons and its total value is around USD 400 million which also...

GRZ/ (US) MILLENIUM CHALLENGE AGREEMENT

GRZ/ (US) MILLENIUM CHALLENGE AGREEMENT (Key Message) “The Compact Development Funding Grant Agreement that we have signed today will advance US $8.3 million to the Zambian Government *to be utilized to assist Zambia in developing a Compact* focused on the areas set forth in the prioritized binding constraints to growth and will support project definition, project development which includes *preliminary program design and feasibility studies, as well as administrative costs.* The Second Compact is expected to focus on enhancing agriculture production and productivity through infrastructure investments. _(Note that as stated in the Minister’s statement, the actual compact will be signed...

A look at 16 – Nation – Southern African Development Community (SADC)

SADC Secretariat The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat is the principal executive institution of SADC, responsible for strategic planning, co-ordination and management of SADC programmes. It is also responsible for the implementation of decisions of SADC policy and institutions such as the Summit, the Troikas and Council of Ministers. It is headed by an Executive Secretary and has its headquarters in Gaborone, Botswana. The Secretariat is guided by Institutional Vision and Mission. H.E. Mr Elias M. Magosi Executive Secretary H.E. Elias M. Magosi is a national of the Republic of Botswana who was sworn in on 18th August, 2021...

STATEMENT FOR HON. DR. SITUMBEKO MUSOKOTWANE, MP MINISTER OF FINANCE AND NATIONAL PLANNING AT THE SIGNING OF THE COMPACT DEVELOPMENT FUNDING GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA AND MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION ON THURSDAY, 8TH DECEMBER, 2022

  REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA STATEMENT FOR HON. DR. SITUMBEKO MUSOKOTWANE, MP MINISTER OF FINANCE AND NATIONAL PLANNING AT THE SIGNING OF THE COMPACT DEVELOPMENT FUNDING GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA AND MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION ON THURSDAY, 8TH DECEMBER, 2022 Mr. Michael Gonzales, Ambassador of the United States of America in Zambia Ms. Kyeh Kim, Principal Deputy Vice President, Millennium Challenge Corporation Mr. Felix Nkulukusa, Secretary to the Treasury Senior Government Officials Present Members of the Press Ladies and Gentlemen I welcome you all to the signing ceremony for the Compact Development Funding Grant Agreement between...

Statement delivered by His Excellency Mr. Jacek Jankowski, Ambassador of the European Union to the Republic of Zambia and COMESA at the occasion of the Launch of the Mwami- Mchinji One Stop Border Post on Wednesday, 7th December 2022

  Statement delivered by His Excellency Mr. Jacek Jankowski, Ambassador of the European Union to the Republic of Zambia and COMESA at the occasion of the Launch of the Mwami- Mchinji One Stop Border Post on Wednesday, 7th December 2022 • Your Excellency Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, President of the Republic of Malawi; • Your Excellency Hakainde Hichilema, President of the Republic of Zambia; • Honourable Mr Mark Katsonga Phiri, Minister of Trade and Industry of Malawi • Honourable Mr Chipoka Mulenga, Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry of Zambia; • Honourable Ministers Present • Ms Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe, Secretary...

THINGS TO TEACH YOUR SON

THINGS TO TEACH YOUR SON

By Teddy Kalunga Kasanga Malikopo (TKKM) – Chilanga District, LUSAKA Province, Thursday, 8th December, 2022 1. Never shake a man’s hand sitting down. 2. Don’t enter a pool by the stairs. 3. The man at the BBQ Grill is the closest thing to a king. 4. In a negotiation, never make the first offer. 5. Request the late check-out. 6. When entrusted with a secret, keep it. 7. Hold your heroes to a higher standard. 8. Return a borrowed car with a full tank of gas. 9. Play with passion or don’t play at all… 10. When shaking hands, grip...

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