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Business / Gender & health / Latest News

April 5, 2020

Statement by Operation Young Vote (OYV) on The Alleged Censored/Cooked Information on Status of Covid 19


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By Guess Nyirenda (Mr.)  Executive Director    OPERATION YOUNG VOTE (OYV) It is quite sad and appalling to note that leaders and specifically those from government have opted to give Zambians incomplete information on the status of Zambia and Zambians regarding the deadly Covid 19 epidemic. The fact that the Minister of Health and the government generally chooses to censor information given to the nation on a matter of life and death is vexing, as we heard on the live streaming on facebook. This is not only a confirmation of our leaders irresponsibility but also an indication that they are ready to...

Business / Latest News

April 5, 2020

The Zambia Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport – ZCILT – President Zindaba Soko petitions Government to Lockdown Passenger Aircraft


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        The Zambia Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport – ZCILT – President Zindaba Soko petitions Government to Lockdown Passenger Aircraft The Zambia Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport has advised Government through Transport and Communications Minister Mutotwe Kafwaya that it will be a safer executive decision by President Edgar Chagwa Lungu to suspend flights into the country as a most effective means to halt possibile outbreak of a new strain of the dreaded Coronavirus. ZCILT President Zindaba Soko is proposing that government should just leave cargo transport with proper surveillance systems, as passenger aircraft is a platform on...

ZAMRA Concerned with Media Reports indicating Self-Medication of Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine as Preventive Measure Against Contracting Coronavirus

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April 5, 2020

ZAMRA Concerned with Media Reports indicating Self-Medication of Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine as Preventive Measure Against Contracting Coronavirus


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ZAMBIA MEDICINES REGULATORY AUTHORITY PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ZAMRA CONCERNED WITH MEDIA REPORTS INDICATING SELF-MEDICATION OF CHLOROQUINE AND HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AS PREVENTIVE MEASURE AGAINST CONTRACTING CORONAVIRUS Lusaka, Tuesday 31st March 2020…….The Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) has noted with concern, reports in some sections of the media of people practising self-medication with certain prescription drugs such as Chloroquine, as preventive measure against contracting the coronavirus (COVID-19). The general public is cautioned against practising self-prescription but are encouraged to always consult and procure medication under the guidance of an authorised practitioner from licensed facilities. ‘’ We discourage self-prescription as the unguided...

Education / Gender & health / Latest News

April 5, 2020

PROTUZ General Secretary Kangwa Musenga backs a total lockdown of Zambia to keep Coronavirus at bay


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By Favourite Jenala Kalando PROFESSIONAL Teachers Union Zambia (PROTUZ) General Secretary (GS) Kangwa Musenga has called for a total lockdown as a most effective means of combating the global outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID 19). Mr. Musenga is worried that once a total lockdown is not enforced by the Zambian Government once schools will be opened, pupils, students, teachers and families will remain susceptible to contracting Coronavirus. Mr. Musenga observed in an interview in Lusaka that due to the global outbreak of Coronavirus the curriculum at all levels beyond exam classes has been disturbed, with pupils, students and teachers confronted with...

National Union for Small-scale Farmers of Zambia Acting Director Noel Simukonde cries for a good maize price

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April 5, 2020

National Union for Small-scale Farmers of Zambia Acting Director Noel Simukonde cries for a good maize price


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By Favourite Jenala Kalando THE National Union for Small-scale Farmers of Zambia (NUSFAZ) is urging the Zambian government through Agriculture Minister Michael Katambo to consider to peg the price of a 50-kilogram bag of maize to 150 Kwacha during the 2019-2020 farming season. As Zambia awaits announcement of the floor price of grain, NUSFAZ Acting Director Noel Simukonde insisted in an interview in Lusaka that the union is not expecting less than a 130 Kwacha price of a 50kg bag of maize. An optimistic Mr. Simukonde says a price range of 130 to 150 kwacha will be more economically appropriate...

Business / Gender & health / Latest News / Sustainable Development

April 5, 2020

Zambia will not end poverty by 2030, predicts Action Aid Zambia Country Director Nalucha Ziba


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By Favourite Jenala Kalando ACTION Aid Zambia Country Director Nalucha Ziba says it is impossible for the country to meet the global United Nations (UN) target of ending poverty by 2030 because resources meant to address achieve the goal continue being diverted to debt servicing. A worried Mrs. Ziba argued in an interview in Lusaka that the diversion of poverty alleviation resources to debt servicing has put a strain on delivery of social services such as Health, Education and Agriculture to name but three sectors. Mrs. Ziba has therefore appealed to government through Finance Minister Dr. Bwalya Ng’andu to consider...

Cleaners Association of Zambia seek protective gear

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April 5, 2020

Cleaners Association of Zambia seek protective gear


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By Favourite Jenala Kalando THE Cleaners Association of Zambia – CAZ – has cautioned its 18, 600 members in the country’s 10 provinces to ensure that they are safe as they conduct domestic and commercial chores in the wake of the devastating global outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID 19). CAZ President Lawrence Makumbi says the association does not want to compromise a single cleaner working in the front line in hospitals to contract the Coronavirus regardless of a members’ geographical location. With a countrywide membership in Central, Copperbelt, Eastern, Luapula, Lusaka, Muchinga, Northern, North-Western Southern and Western provinces, Mr. Makumbi has...

Gender & health / Latest News

April 5, 2020

Kapelwa Astley Mbangweta questions PF’s double standard


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By Ashton Kelly Bunda A UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) Member of Parliament (MP) in the Western Province has questioned the motive behind the ruling Patriotic Front’s call on the Electoral Commission of Zambia – ECZ- to postpone all by elections scheduled to take place in the near future till the country is declared Coronavirus Disease (COVID 19) free. UPND Nkyeyema Member of Parliament (MP)Kapelwa Astley Mbangweta has wondered why the Party did not call for the postponement of the Nangula Ward by elections in Limulunga district of Western Province, which its candidate Thabo Kayando won with 868 votes...

Business / Gender & health / Latest News

April 5, 2020

Press Statement – Plans Underway to Distribute 2 million home-made face masks


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Lusaka 5/04/20 – The Zambian Roads and Highway Safety Group (ZRHSG) has plans of distributing 2 million (2,000,000) home-made masks over a period of 5 months to bus crews and passengers at bus stations and markets around Lusaka as a way of halting the spread of the corona virus around the city. The project dubbed “Pushing Corona Out of Lusaka” is expected to cost USD 60, 120 and will involve hiring of tailors and volunteer road safety and health experts to distribute these masks and sensitize passengers and bus crews to wear masks at all times while in the bus or...

Gender & health / Latest News

April 5, 2020

DEC PRESS STATEMENT Saturday 04th April, 2020


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PRESS STATEMENT Lusaka, Saturday 04th April, 2020. The Drug Enforcement Commission has arrested four (4) people including three professed cadres of a named political party and one (1) Lusaka based business woman in Central Province for trafficking in Cannabis weighing 133.69 Kilograms, contrary to Chapter 96 of the Laws of Zambia. These are identified as Harriet Mwape, 51, a business woman of John Laing Compound in Lusaka and three (3) other cadres of which two (2) females are also peasant farmers in Serenje district of Central Province Identified as Beatrice Mofya, 51, and Jacqueline Mofya, 20, while the man has been identified as...

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