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  ……..’We’ll actualize our campaign promises, change the narrative’ Wednesday, 25th January. 2024 Lusaka (Zambia Informer) ——- ‘I have come back home to help fulfil what we had promised the people during our campaigns and even when I was away (opposition), I never forgot the United Party for National Development because that is where it all begun” says Bizwell Mutale, the prodigal son, moments after jumping and swimming ashore from the sinking ‘Patriotic Front (PF) Titanic (boat). Mutale, a multifaceted personality with hands on in engineering Procurement Construction and Project Funding, business acquisition and recapitalisation, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer...

By Derrick Sinjela and Simon Banda Economic Front (EF) Spokesperson, Humphrey Kabwe is appealing to the United Party for National Development (UPND) Administration to immediately reverse the recent increment of toll gate charges, mobile money transaction charges and the automatic increment of electricity tariffs which was effected on Monday, 1st January, 2024. Mr Kabwe says these increments continue to negatively affect the costs of living and production thus causing more hardship on the already suffering citizens. Kabwe says it is unacceptable, retrogressive and being heartless to hike toll gate charges for truck’s to K1,250 from K500. “These increments of toll...

  Unleashing the Power of Innovation at ICRISAT: Advancing Crop Breeding with Breakthrough Technologies A quantum leap in crop breeding speed, precision, and savings on labor costs is possible with the latest phenotyping technologies available at ICRISAT. Breeders can now aim for agile research pipelines that respond to a rapidly changing climate. Climate change has accelerated rapidly in the past decade, putting the survival of vulnerable communities in semi-arid tropics at risk.To support food sustainability for a growing global population, research organizations worldwide face the challenge of developing climate-adapted crops and doubling crop improvement rates by 2030.Developing crop varieties is...