Category: Gender & health

MOLLIS GROUP: TAKING AFRICAN BUSINESSES TO GLOBAL MARKETS


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September 2, 2024….Lusaka Mollis Group, a South African multifaceted, dynamic marketing firm says African products have great potential to compete at the global stage once well and aggressively marketed. With the ever growing economic footprint of South Africa in the region and beyond, Mollis Group has been at the core marketing drive of the country’s products to penetrate other markets. With South Africa being one of the largest investors for chain stores and shopping malls in Zambia, Mollis Group intends to be one of the driving forces behind locally manufactured products’ success in penetrating and dominating markets within South Africa,...

RUSSIA’S POSITIVE TECHNOLOGIES SUCCESSFULLY HOLDS 2024 HACK CAMP ON CYBER SECURITY


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August 24, 2024…..Lusaka As the world grapples with increased sophistication in cyber crimes, solutions are being sought to curb the vice by technology experts who gathered in Moscow, Russia for two weeks during the Positive Hack Camp, reports FRANCIS LUNGU. Positive Technologies, a Russian firm with support from the Ministry of Digital Development, organized an international educational project dubbed “Positive Hack Camp” that attracted about 70 young participants from around the world to learn on how to detect and address cyber crimes. The two-week Positive Hack Camp just wrapped up on Friday, August 23, 2024 in Moscow. The event brought...

Incorporating High-Resolution Aerial Geophysical Surveys into Value Stream Mapping for Zambia’s Mining Sector


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Editorial or Opinion- Rainbow Newspaper Zambia Limited Edition 132 – Monday 19th August 2024 – Sunday 25th August 2024 Incorporating High-Resolution Aerial Geophysical Surveys into Value Stream Mapping for Zambia’s Mining Sector By Shadreck Saili Industrialisation and Regional Integration Expert On August 14, 2024, the Zambian President, H.E, Mr. President Hakainde Hichilema launched a groundbreaking high-resolution aerial geophysical survey, marking a significant advancement in the country’s mining sector resource management. This initiative aims to utilise a state-of-the-art airborne geophysical technology to uncover hidden geological resources, optimise exploration efforts, and ultimately drive the mining industry toward its ambitious production target of...

Professor Bishop John Hardy Mambo


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_*PROFESSOR BISHOP JOHN HARD MAMBO, ACADEMIC BIOGRAPHY*_ By Professor Edgar Ng’oma Philosopher/Distinguished Governance Expert EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report provides an academic biography of Bishop Dr. John Hardy Mambo, who was recently conferred with a Professorship by a consortium of Southern African Christian Universities. The report outlines Bishop Mambo’s academic journey, leadership roles, and achievements that led to this prestigious recognition. INTRODUCTION On August 9, 2024, a consortium of Christian universities in Southern Africa conferred a Professorship on Bishop John Mambo, founder of Nyamphande orphanage and Chairman of Chikondi Foundation. This recognition acknowledges Bishop Mambo’s tireless dedication to humanitarian work, education,...

JAPAN SIGNS $11MILLION AGREEMENT WITH ZAMBIA


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By HAPPY MULOLANI JAPANESE International Cooperation and Agency (JICA) and the Ministry of Agriculture have signed an $11million (JPYI 1,590,000,000) Agreement to scale up rice interventions. Ministry of Agriculture Permanent Secretary for Administration Yvonne Mpundu appreciated Japan’s efforts and initiative of supporting the agriculture sector through the Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI), noting that the two countries enjoyed a cordial relationship over the years. The project aims to improve the dissemination system of rice farming technologies and capacity for producing quality seeds at ZARI at Mansa Research Station, which is earmarked to run from December 2023 to December 2028. Ms...

CLIMATE CRISIS INFRINGES ON CHILDREN’ RIGHTS


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…El Niño-driven floods hampering their access to basic services such as education and healthcare in Isoka District By SIMON MUNTEMBA ALL-WEATHER crossing points and roads in rural areas provide connections for communities not only to access the social services they need safely and conveniently, but also access to markets for agricultural produce by subsistence farmers. Unfortunately, almost every rainy season, Milongo Resettlement area under Chief Kafwimbi of Isoka District, Muchinga Province which is surrounded by the Nansala River and some streams is usually cut off from basic services and goods due to lack of proper crossing points and road network....

NZP+ trains community based volunteers in pandemic preparedness and disease surveillance


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Kapiri Mposhi, July 26–The Network of Zambian People Living with HIV/AIDS (NZP+), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Churches Health Association of Zambia (CHAZ) conducted a two-day training workshop in surveillance and pandemic preparedness for 31 community based volunteers from Kapiri Mposhi district on 24th and 25 July 2024. The training aimed to equip community based volunteers with knowledge and skills to effectively respond to disease outbreaks in their respective communities and how report such cases to health facilities. The workshop covered topics such as pandemic preparedness, disease outbreak response, infection control measures, and data collection for disease...

PROTECT AFRICAN CHILDREN FROM HARMFUL “KIDDIE PACKS” TOBACCO, SAYS ATCA


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PROTECT AFRICAN CHILDREN FROM HARMFUL “KIDDIE PACKS” TOBACCO, SAYS ATCA July 7, 2024 ….Lusaka Globally, public health promotion has constantly come under pressure due to an array of harmful activities such as tobacco consumption which puts at risk millions of lives, especially those of children who are now targeted by “Kiddies Packs”, a new form of cigarette packaging aimed at attracting young ones, FRANCIS LUNGU reports. This has caused 60 tobacco control advocates representing 54 organisations from 25 African countries, Zambia inclusive, to appeal to the government of Pakistan to refuse the alleged push by the British American Tobacco (BAT)...

“TI-Z’s Raymond Mutale seeks Financial Transparency in Zambia’s Political Party finaning” …as ZCID’s Doreen Njovu Calls for Financial Reform”


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By Derrick Sinjela Transparency International Zambia (TI-Z) Acting Executive Director Raymond Mutale spoke at a validation meeting on political party and campaign financing regulation. The Zambia Centre for Interparty Dialogue (ZCID) Executive Director, Ms. Doreen Njovu, delivered a keynote speech at a plenary workshop on political party and campaign finance regulation. Ms. Njovu expressed gratitude to stakeholders and political parties for their participation in the technical meeting, which aimed to analyze the regulatory landscape and develop legislative recommendations. Mr. Mutale expressed delight to address the issue, which is gaining global attention. Substantively serving as TI-Z Programmes Manager, Mutale emphasized that...

Zambian forest reserve rebounds with a little assistance


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By Ryan Truscott on 20 June 2024 Conservationists and farmers have restored large parts of a forest reserve in Zambia in just four years through natural regeneration. The Katanino Forest Reserve had lost more than 58% of its forest cover by 2019, when dozens of families living inside it and cutting trees to make charcoal were finally evicted by state officials. A restoration project launched that same year by conservation group WeForest and local partners has used assisted natural regeneration, a light-touch forest restoration method, to grow back more than 500 hectares (1,240 acres) of the reserve’s tree cover. The...

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