Category: Gender & health

FEIRA Constituency Patriotic Front (PF) Member of Parliament Emmanuel Tembo has resolved to stage a lone protest at State House and Community House over what he terms a scourge of human-animal conflict in Luangwa district of Lusaka Province, our Correspondent writes. Mr Tembo whose one-man protects have been scheduled for July 19-20, 2022 respectively, wants to get the attention of President Hakainde Hichilema to intervene in the ongoing human-animal conflict in Luangwa district “Many efforts have been made to get the Department of National Parks and Wildlife to control the situation but to no avail. The department [seemingly] does not...

The Royal court of Senior chief Nsefu of the Kunda people of Mambwe in Eastern Province has set August 20th as the date for the Malaila Traditional ceremony. The Royal establishment has also announced this year for golden jubilee celebrations to mark the assention of chief Malama Chikunto to the throne. Malambo Cultural and Development Association (MCDA) mobilization Committee chairperson Davis Mataka said in Lusaka that the Malaila Ceremony which has not been held for the past two years due to Covid pandemic fears and ministry of Health restriction guidelines will take place at Lubaneni in Mfuwe. Mr. Mataka said...

AFRICANS Rising, a Pan-African movement anchored on the promotion of justice, peace and dignity says the continent is heavily endowed with resources contrary to its high poverty levels being experienced, reports Francis Lungu. Africans Rising movement is currently mobilising and creating awareness of it’s existence and objectives across the six continental regions ahead of the 2022 All African Movement Assembly (AAMA) to be held in Arusha, Tanzania this August. For southern African the hybrid regional convening has been held today at the University of Zambia main campus in Lusaka. Speaking at the convening, Africans Rising co-coordinator Muhammed Lamin Saidykhan said...

  On June 29, 2022, the Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA) issued a permit for the construction of the El-Dabaa NPP Unit 1. “Today, we were granted the permit to build the first unit of the first Egyptian nuclear power plant. Today, we etched in gold Egypt joining the ranks of countries building nuclear power plants after over 70 years waiting for this dream to come true,” said Dr. Amged El-Wakeel, Board Chairman of Nuclear Power Plants Authority of Egypt. This permit, along with excavation works at site, is a prerequisite for the start of the main stage...

On June 16, on the sidelines of the XXV St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Rosatom signed a cooperation agreement. The agreement was signed by the Russian Minister for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic Alexey Chekunkov and Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev. The parties agreed on the indicative terms of a concession agreement for the creation of a small nuclear power plant with a RITM-200N reactor in Yakutia and on a roadmap for joint activities necessary for the conclusion of the concession agreement on the project. The construction of the power...

Hichilema Recommends Sustainable And Smart Climate Agriculture ….For avoidance of doubt PELUM advises government to back this pronouncement with a policy and legal framework to protect indigenous seed for clean and health food By Francis Maingaila Lusaka – 25 -05- 2022 – (Zambia24) – President Hakainde Hichilema has recommended the practice of sustainable and smart climate agriculture as a way of mitigating the impact of climate change on food and nutrition security in the country. Speaking on Tuesday night when he addressed the nation on the eve of African Freedom Day, President Hichilema said food security is vital for the...

https://www.facebook.com/1065490466/posts/10226073969730190/?flite=scwspnss Yanga Organic Farm to plant 10, avocado 🥑 trees🌲 by December 2022, brags Citizen Journalist Saeed Simon Banda By DERRICK SINJELA Borrowing a cue from the 25th May, 2022 African Freedom Day theme: “Leveraging National Resources For Food Security,” Yanga Organic Farm (YOF) initiator Saeed Simon Banda is plotting to plant 10, Avocado Trees in Chisamba District, Central Province and Chongwe District, Lusaka Province. Encouraged by a position taken by Zambia’s Seventh Republican President Mr. Hakainde Hichilema’s New Dawn Administration’s diversification agenda, Banda, a Citizen Journalist believes investment in organic farming is not just healthy but a surest means...

OFFICE OF THE 6th REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT, HIS EXCELLENCY EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU Tuesday 7th June, 2022 The office of the Sixth Republican President, His Excellency Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu is dismayed with continued attempts to put his name in disrepute by use of false and alarming statements attributed to him in the media. This is in response to a recent post trending on social media platforms, suggesting that Dr. Lungu is contemplating making a return to active politics. However, the former Head of State has requested well meaning Zambians to be critical of every statement alleged to have been issued by...