By Via UN News Centre August 16th, 2017|Health, News A ground-breaking global convention on mercury today goes into effect, the United Nations environment wing said, protecting millions of children and infants from possible neurological and health damage. “Governments that are party to the Convention are now legally bound to take a range of measures to protect human health and the environment by addressing mercury throughout its lifecycle,” the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a statement. The Minamata Convention commits Governments to specific measures, which include banning new mercury mines, phasing-out existing ones, regulating artisanal and small-scale gold mining, and reducing emissions and mercury use. Since the...

By Via UN News Centre August 16th, 2017|Hunger and food security, News Food assistance will be provided to food insecure people displaced by conflict in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), says the United Nations food agency. The World Food Programme (WFP) and its partner World Vision have launched an emergency operation to provide food assistance to 42,000 food insecure people who, due to conflict, have fled their villages in the country’s Kasai and Kasai Central provinces. “We launched this emergency response as soon as funds became available,” said Claude Jibidar, WFP Representative and Country Director in DRC, in a...

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President Edgar Lungu with First Lady Esther Lungu, former First Lady Thandiwe Banda poses for a photograph with Pupils during the First Lady for a Day Mentorship Programme at State House on Tuesday, August 15,2017 -Pictures by THOMAS NSAMA Be the first to like. Like Unlike

By AMOS CHANDA SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT (PRESS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS)  STATE HOUSE LUSAKA, (Wednesday, 16h August, 2017)­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­- His Excellency Mr Edgar Chagwa Lungu, President of the Republic of Zambia has sworn in Ministry of Health Spokesperson Kennedy Malama  as Permanent Secretary for administration at the Ministry with a clarion call to him to prioritise the procurement of medicine to save lives. Shortly, after swearing in Dr Malama, the President advised the Permanent Secretary not to take a lethargic approach which other Permanent Secretaries and Ministers had taken in their execution of duty. The President implored the Permanent Secretary...