COVID-19 has to a large extent moved Ghana’s elections campaign from the usual mass rallies and offline canvassing channels to online and traditional media channels. With no clear laws and rules of engagement, Ghana’s electoral management bodies and regulators are left playing catch up as they chase political parties and their candidates and develop monitoring tools to help keep track of negative developments. Generally, social media platform giants, Facebook and twitter have led the way in dealing with what has become the misinformation disinfodemic. Building systems in place to flag or take down harmful content, they have managed to help...

PRESS RELEASE December 4, 2020 Zambian companies mint awards at international conference for continuous work improvements FIVE Zambian institutions have won Platinum prizes for their work improvement projects at the just ended 5th InternationalConventiononQualityControlCircles (ICQCC) held at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Dakar, Bangladesh. The international Convention on Quality Control Circle awarded the top prize to ZESCO Limited, Hitachi Construction Company (Z) Limited, Lusaka’s Kanyama Level One Hospital, Lusaka Water and Sanitation Company, and Strongpak Limited for implementing various projects aimed at promoting, quality safety and efficiency at their work places. The five companies participated in the Convention virtually from...

Dear Friends & Colleagues The Policy Monitoring and Research Centre will host the 2020 Media Awards in the following categories – TV, Radio, Online Media and Print. Participate in the awards by submitting public policy reports (Print, Radio, Online Media and TV) to media.awards@pmrczambia.net Include relevant supporting documents e.g. script or full reports, video and audio clips. Only one entry is allowed per category. All content submitted for entry must have been published or broadcast between 1st January 2020 and 31st December 2020 The PMRC Media Awards Committee will use the following nine (9) dimensions to grade work that will be submitted: Clarity of submission  Reference data ...

Dear Friends & Colleagues POST COVID-19 ECONOMIC RECOVERY: WHAT NEXT FOR THE AFRICAN CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA The Coronavirus pandemic is a challenge that was not anticipated by the global economy and it arrived at a period when prospects for many African countries were promising. At the beginning of 2020, Africa was on track to continue its economic expansion, with growth projected to rise from 2.9 per cent in 2019 to 3.2 percent in 2020, and 3.5 per cent in 2021; but the pandemic arrived and destabilized almost all economies in Africa. In view of this, counter measures have since...

ZAMBIA MEDICINES REGULATORY AUTHORITY                                                                                                                     PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ON OPERATING ILLEGAL DRUG STORE  Lusaka, Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020……. Eleven people of Kapiri Mposhi District, Central Province have been arrested for operating a Pharmacy without a Certificate of Registration contrary to Section 14(1) of the Medicines and Allied Substances...

Saturday, 26th December 2020: Lusaka. The Nation’s leading road safety NGO, the Zambia Road Safety Trust (ZRST), is deeply saddened by the loss of five innocent lives this morning in the bus accident. According to the Police, five people died in a road traffic accident that happened in Kabwe this morning involving a Nakonde-bound Likili Motorways Bus which was coming from Lusaka. Another 13 people from the same bus sustained serious injuries while 42 sustained minor injuries. In the meantime, the ZRST extends sincere condolences to the families who have lost loved ones today. We pray that they will find...