By Derrick Sinjela and Ashton Kelly Bunda MINISTRY of Tourism and Arts (MOTA) Permanent Secretary (PS) Auxilia Bupe Ponga and Zambia Postal Services Cooperation  (ZAMPOST) Post Master General (PMG) Brighton Ngoma have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) drafted to promoting domestic tourism. Speaking during a brief meeting Kwacha House on at Lusaka’s Cairo Road on Thursday 7th January 2021, Sister Ponga expressed optimism that the MOU will facilitate enhance ZAMPOST operational performance Operations. On his part, Postmaster General Brighton Ngoma said the collaboration outlined in the domestic tourism promotion partnership is beneficial to both the Ministry of Tourism and...

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...