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United Nations (U N I E S)  Secretary-General Message on Africa Industrialisation Day Monday 20 November 2018

United Nations (U N I E S) Secretary-General Message on Africa Industrialisation Day Monday 20 November 2018


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Inclusive and sustainable industrial development is critical for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Africa. It generates jobs, reduces poverty, hunger and inequality, empowers women, expands opportunities for young people, while also improving health, safeguarding the environment and tackling climate change.   This year’s Africa Industrialization Day focuses on promoting regional value chains and underscores how industrial development in local pharmaceutical production contributes to healthy lives and well-being.   The development of a competitive and sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing sector in Africa can help promote better health and well-being and sustainable economic growth. The availability of high quality and...

CORRUPT TRAFFIC OFFICIALS, A THREAT TO ROAD SAFETY

CORRUPT TRAFFIC OFFICIALS, A THREAT TO ROAD SAFETY


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By FREDRICK MUBANGA HEAD-PUBLIC RELATIONS-RTSA   CHPATA, 17TH November, 2018- Corruption among traffic and road transport officials is posing a great risk to road safety.   Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Zindaba Soko, has charged that the effect of corruption is not only a loss of State revenue, but may contribute to road traffic accidents if not curbed.   “Corrupt officials who allow motorists who speed, or who are driving vehicles that are not roadworthy, to proceed on their journey are posing a threat to road safety and the consequences for other road...

Constitution Making Beyond 2018, by Simon Kabanda 1

Constitution Making Beyond 2018, by Simon Kabanda 1


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CONSTITUTION MAKING BEYOND 2018 Simon Kabanda 4 October 2018 1.0. Introduction 1.1. The journey towards completing the Constitution making process in Zambia is still on. The current Constitution making process started 25 years ago, with the appointment of the Mwanakatwe Constitution Review Commission (CRC) in September 1993. Unfortunately, it has been an unnecessarily very long process. 1.2. In the 20 years of the government of the Movement for MultiParty Democracy (MMD), 1991-2011, Constitution making was a failed project. The MMD had made two attempts at coming up with a new Constitution. The first attempt was made in 1993 when the...

Huawei’s Martin Zhong extols KK and Mao Zedong

Huawei’s Martin Zhong extols KK and Mao Zedong


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……as Smart Zambia Initiative and Huawei donate 10 Computers to Lusaka’s Makeni St. Francis Pre-School   By Derrick Sinjela in Makeni, South of Lusaka FORMER First Republican President Dr. Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda and former Chairman People’s Republic of China, President, the late Mao Zedong for laying a firm Sino-Zambia foundation which President Xi Jinping and President Edgar Chagwa Lungu continue to consolidate politically described as a Siamese twin. An elated Huawei Country Director Martin Zhong is delighted that Zambia and China continue to collaborate as equal partners in delivering empowerment to citizens in the host country manifested by an...

IS it possible to determine the sex of the child you are going to have? TALKING HEALTH with Dr. Lalick Banda

IS it possible to determine the sex of the child you are going to have? TALKING HEALTH with Dr. Lalick Banda


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Sun, Feb 12, 2012, 3:21 PM QUESTION: IS it possible to determine the sex of the child you are going to have? ANSWER: SEX of a developing child is determined at the level of the chromosomes. Every human being has a total of 46 chromosomes or 23 pairs. 44 are non sex chromosomes (autosomes) and 2 are Sex chromosomes. The sex chromosomes of a female are XX and those for a male are XY. So a male’s chromosomes should read 46XY and those of a female 46XX. 23 chromosomes of the 46 come from each parent. For example 23XX from...

MCC Celebrates the Closeout of the Five-Year, $355 Million Zambia Compact

MCC Celebrates the Closeout of the Five-Year, $355 Million Zambia Compact


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By Millennium Challenge Corporation – MCC   Lusaka – Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary Jeanne Hauch visited Lusaka this week to recognize the accomplishments of the MCC Zambia Compact.   While in Lusaka, Ms. Hauch met with Zambian President Edgar Lungu, U.S. Ambassador Daniel Lewis Foote, Zambian Minister of Finance Margaret Mwanakatwe, and other Zambian government senior officials, as well as the dedicated Millennium Challenge Account-Zambia staff. The MCC vice president also visited project sites and met with beneficiaries of the MCC-Zambia Compact.   “It has been an honor to be here this week to...

Experiencing Chengelo School Saturday 13 October 2018


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By Mumba S Kapumpa SC SATURDAY : 13 OCTOBER 2018   My wife, Chisanga Kapumpa, and I were invited by Chengelo School , and I were invited by Chengelo School, to the school’s Annual Prizegiving Ceremony for me to be the Guest Speaker and Mrs. Kapumpa to be Awarding Prizes to the students.   We left Lusaka for Mkushi where Chengelo is, around 04:30 and arrived at the school at 09:00. We were of course conscious of the 80 km/h restrictions RATSA has imposed on the Lusaka-Mkushi road, although it is a highway !!   In my Speech I made the...

Call for Proposals U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation 2019 (December 5, 2018)


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Call for Proposals: U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation 2019 (December 5, 2018) Lusaka – The U.S. Embassy and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State are pleased to announce the 2019 call for proposals for the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP). The AFCP was established to help countries preserve their cultural heritage and to demonstrate U.S. respect for other cultures.  The projects selected to receive funding under this program will advance U.S. diplomatic goals and demonstrate the depth of U.S. respect for the cultural heritage of Zambia.  The fund is aimed at...

Zambia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mr Joseph MALANJI  meets  Dr BELAY  BEGASHAW Director General For The Sustainable Development Goals Centre for Africa  

Zambia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mr Joseph MALANJI  meets  Dr BELAY  BEGASHAW Director General For The Sustainable Development Goals Centre for Africa  


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Foreign Affairs Minister Mr Joseph MALANJI  with  Dr BELAY  BEGASHAW Director General For The Sustainable Development Goals Centre for Africa  (SDG/A) during the  signing  of the hosting Country Agreement for Southern Africa Region Sub Office at Zambian Mission with Minister of National Development Planning Hon. Alexander Chiteme in New York on Sunday  23-09-2018, Picture by Eddie Mwanaleza. On 21st June, 2018, Dr Begashaw paid a courtesy call on His Excellency Mr Edgar Chagwa Lungu, President of the Republic of Zambia to discuss Zambia’s being chosen to host the Sub-regional Centre for Southern Africa in Lusaka. The Sustainable Development Goals Centre...

Clean up Examinations Council of Zambia, demands NDC Vice President Josephs Rikki Akafumba

Clean up Examinations Council of Zambia, demands NDC Vice President Josephs Rikki Akafumba


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  Lusaka.10.30 Hours. 25.10.2018. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Vice President Josephs Rikki Akafumba is demanding an immediate clean up at the Examinations Council of Zambia (ECZ). Mr. Akafumba says it is abundantly clear that the ECZ has been infiltrated and compromised, thus the Examining Councils ethical ability, capacity and mandate to conduct and administer examinations in the Zambia increasingly remaining doubtful. In this vain, the NDC is calling for urgent institutional reforms at the ECZ, as  its continued lapses may worsen fear that Zambian academic credentials will not be accepted by relevant international bodies, owing to the dented reputation of...

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