ZAMBIA’s Gender and Child Development (GCD) Minister Inonge Mutukwa-Wina will host the 3rd African Women’s Economic Summit (AWES) on the theme: “African Women: Realising Africa’s Economic Potential” from July 24-26th 2014 in Lusaka reports Derrick Sinjela and Favourite Kalando for the Rainbow Newspaper and the Zambian Developmental Media Alliance (ZADEMA). Speaking during a Thursday 27th March 2014 Media Breakfast at the Taj Pamodzi Hotel in Lusaka, Ms Mutukwa-Wina confirmed that President Michael Chilufya Sata’s Patriotic Front (PF) Government had endorsed the 3rd AWES Indaba. From the outset, Ms Mutukwa-Wina indicated that her ministry viewed the 3rd AWES interaction as a platform on which an average...

By Brown Sinyangwe, Secretary General of the Leadership Movement (LM) This is a summary of an update on the progress we have made as Leadership Movement Party in the year 2019. On 12th March 2019 we launched the National Recruitment for jobs in 2021, and so far the progress is as follows: The number of youths recruited in Luapula province so far for jobs in 2021 is 46,855. Meanwhile, recruitment continues in Luapula province. The number of youths recruited in Western province so far for jobs in 2021 is 47,023. Meanwhile, recruitment continues in Western province. The number of youths...

By Conrad K Simuchile and Paul Himoonga The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) and the Copperbelt University (CBU) of Zambia have signed an Academic Business Partnership Agreement, officially operationalizing the establishment of the CBU-TAZARA Mpika Campus at the TAZARA Training Centre, which has already begun offering skills development in railway related engineering and logistics academic programs at Diploma, Bachelor Degree, Master Degree and PhD levels. Apart from setting up a unique relationship that creates unheralded value and opportunities for both the University and the railway industry, the partnership is an undertaking to position both institutions towards contributing to the planned African Integrated High...

Fellow Citizens, I am on a familiazation tour of the Sunbird Bioenergy Zambia Offices in Kawambwa District, Luapula Province ahead of the launch of the Outgrower Scheme. Sunbird Zambia is expected to provide over 20,000 economic opportunities for our small – scale farmers. And the Sunbird Bio – Ethanol plant will require 600,000 tonnes of Cassava to produce 160 million litres of Ethanol per year. Join me as I work to bring development to our people. #PresidentialGrassrootTour#BuildingZambiaTogether Posted by Edgar Chagwa Lungu on Sunday, January 5, 2020 By Derrick Sinjela in Lusaka, Zambia PRESIDENT Edgar Chagwa Lungu has gone on...