Category: Gender & health

Chrispin Chiinda partners with ‘BuyZED’s Evans Kazonga Ngoma in Promotion of local products amidst covid 19 outbreak


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*CHIINDA PARTNERS WITH ‘BuyZED IN PROMOTION OF LOCAL PRODUCTS AMIDST COVID-19 OUT BREAK* By Francis Chipalo (Community based journalist- Lusaka) ‘BuyZed’ founder Evans Kazonga Ngoma and Munali 2021 parliamentary hopeful Chrispin Chiinda have partnered in the promotion of local products amidst COVID-19 that has not spared Zambia. Ngoma has rolled out a robust campaign encouraging Zambians to purchase, use and promote local products in all sectors, a move he said would boost the country’s economy. Ngoma said doing so would also create employment for the Zambian people, adding that the more local products being purchased and used, the more the...

Freedom of the Press and Expression at Risk as Government Suspends Prime Television Broadcasting License, cries Nalucha Nganga Ziba

Freedom of the Press and Expression at Risk as Government Suspends Prime Television Broadcasting License, cries Nalucha Nganga Ziba


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ActionAid Zambia 38G Kabulonga Road Ibex Hill P.O. Box 51407 Lusaka, Zambia Telephone: +260 (0)9 664 53677 Email: info.zambia@actionaid.org FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND EXPRESSION AT RISK AS GOVERNMENT SUSPENDS PRIME TELEVISION BROADCASTING LICENSE ActionAid Zambia is deeply concerned with the draconian decision by the Zambian Government to suspend the broadcasting license of the privately owned Prime Television. The Patriotic Front (PF) Government through the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA,) on Thursday, 9th April 2020, suspended the broadcasting license of Prime television under the guise of public interest. The decision by the Zambian government to cancel the broadcasting license of Prime...

Nkeyema Member of Parliament Kapelwa Mbangweta protests cancellation of the Prime TV station’s Broadcasting License as matter is still active in Courts


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By Luswepo Mutepuka UNITED PARTY for National Development (UPND) Nkeyema Member of Parliament (MP) Kapelwa Mbangweta of Nkeyema District is a district of Western Province has doubted the motive behind by government through the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) to cancel the Prime TV station License when the matter is still active in the Courts of Law. Mr. Mbangweta said in an interview in Lusaka that he expected the Zambian government to first listen to his apology and stakeholder protestations as opposed to revoking his license, a development that will result in job losses. Mr. Mbangweta says it is unfortunate that...

General Education Minister Minister David Mabumba says pupils will not to pay tuition fees once classes resume


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By Luswepo Mutepuka General Education Minister David Mabumba says school user fees that paid before the end of term one should be carried through to term two as learners did not get any form of education mentorship in the stated period. Mr. Mabumba, a Patriotic Front (PF) Member of Parliament (MP) for Mwense in Luapula Province says when President Edgar Lungu announced the current closure of schools, only three weeks remained before the end of term one. And Mr. Mabumba has announced that the Ministry is still consulting education sector technocrats and stakeholders on how the grade twelve General Certificate...

Zambia must ban plastic carrier bags, insists Integrated Community Litter Initiative National Chairperson Pascal Chikumbi


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By Luswepo Mutepuka The Integrated Community Litter Initiative (ICALI) National Chairperson Pascal Chikumbi has called for a total ban of plastics countrywide by the Ministry of Commerce Trade and Industry a means of maintaining a clean and green environment. Noting the undegrading nature of plastics, Mr. Chikumbi says encouraging paper carrier bags and wrappers is the only way the country can save the environment from mounting mountains of used plastic waste pollution. Noting Zambia’s lack of capacity to clean the environment through plastic recycling, Chikumbi expressed dismay at the continued disposal of waste in both public and private institutions located...

Panos urges IBA to rescind the cancellation of Prime TV broadcasting license


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Issued by: Vusumuzi Sifile Executive Director, Panos Institute Southern Africa (PSAf) Email: vusa@panos.org.zm Lusaka, 09 April 2020: Panos Institute Southern Africa is saddened by the cancellation of Prime Television’s broadcasting license, and calls on the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) to rescind its decision and reinstate one of Zambia’s leading privately owned media houses. In a letter to Prime TV proprietor Gerald Shawa on 09 April 2020, the IBA Board Secretary/Director General Josephine Mapoma said the TV station’s broadcasting license had been cancelled “with immediate effect”. The IBA said the cancellation of Prime TV’s broadcasting license was in line with provisions of Section...

JCTR – Zambia Deputy Executive Director Father Alex Muyebe Press Release Wednesday 8th April, 2020 ‘Upholding Social Justice at the Workplace in the Wake of COVID-19’


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Press Release 8th April, 2020 Upholding Social Justice at the Workplace in the Wake of COVID-19 On 31st December 2019, Chinese authorities alerted the World Health Organisation (WHO) of an outbreak of a novel strain of coronavirus causing severe illness and even death in some cases. The WHO subsequently named this as COVID-19. As of April 5th, 2020, over 1.2 million COVID-19 cases with over 60,000 deaths were recorded globally. Zambia has so far recorded 39 cases, 7 recoveries and 1 death as of 8th April 2020. Various measures have been promoted at both local and global level in order...

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