Category: Gender & health

BNNB Statement Tuesday 7thApril, 2020 POOR ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: MORE DAMAGING ON POOR HOUSEHOLDS. The country has in the past month been faced with both economic and social difficulties. We have seen the country’s currency losing value against major currencies. From the 2nd to the 26th of March 2020 the Kwacha depreciated against the US dollar by 18.6 percent. On 2nd March 2020, the Kwacha traded at K15.22 to US$1. By 26th March, the Kwacha had moved to K18.05 to US$1. About the same time, we were faced with a shortage of the country’s staple food; mealie meal, which in turn...

‘A Healthy People, Build a Wealthy Nation’ Doctor’s Corner with Professor Mulindi Mwanahamuntu Wuhan in China was under severe lockdown because of a common cold virus that was killing too many people when compared to other similar common cold viruses. The world watched, passing its opinion backed by early science and statistical figures that were emanating from China. In China itself, the alleged government’s opinion to muzzle the disease had its biggest ridicule when an ophthalmology doctor who first released the scare through his observation of unusual deaths died of the very Covid-19 received tweets of heroism. Government then became a...

The rally was at Kitwe’s Freedom Park and was broadcast live on national TV. He was in high spirits and, as usual, at his lyrical best. Introducing candidate Mwanawasa, he began: “Ba Mwanawasa te bashimbe nga ine.” He then broke into song: “Ubushimbe nabumpesha amano mayo ubushimbe…” After the musical interlude, he turned to how he dribbled all the presidential hopefuls in the MMD and settled for Mwanawasa. “Ala muma politics bane mwabe njuka. Nalibadilibula bonse,” he told the cheering crowd, praising himself as a ‘political engineer. Be the first to like. Like Unlike