Mkushi, April 14, 2023, ZANIS—Government has empowered women in Mkushi district, in Central province, with soft loans under the village bank scheme. Mkushi District Community Development Officer Priscilla Mangowani has disclosed to ZANIS that 175 women entrepreneurs have received loans under the department’s village bank loan scheme, within a period of 12 months. Mrs. Mangowani notes that the beneficiaries are mainly from Mkushi Central, Chalata and Nkumbi community development sub-centers. She says that although the principal loans involved varied amongst the beneficiaries, K80, 000 was the gross amount funded towards catering for the beneficiaries on the programme. She said that...

HH reviving Zambia’s economy, brags Mbala MP Njavwa Simutowe By Derrick Sinjela Northern Province domiciled Mbala Member of Parliament (MP) Njavwa Simutowe believes President Hakainde Hichilema’s United Party for National Development (UPND) Alliance New Dawn Administration is setting Zambia on a promising socio-economic trajectory, capable of ameliorating vulnerability and feminisation of poverty built by a tripartite woe of high-income inequality, high poverty and high unemployment. As skeptics continue to tag complacency as UPND’s biggest liability attributing economic challenges to Patriotic Front (PF) leadership of Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu and former First Female Vice President Inonge Mutukwa-Wina, an optimistic Mr. Simutowe...