Category: Sustainable Development

…as CLRI opposes deployment of soldiers By Derrick Sinjela CONTINENTAL Leadership Research Institute (CLRI) Executive Director Mundia Paul Hakoola has described recent violence witnessed in Lusaka’s densely populated Kanyama Township as a retrogressive occurrence. With barely a few nine (9) days towards the Thursday 12th August 2021 Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government Election, a worried Hakoola expressed regret over the noted politically instigated fight involving the Patriotic Front (PF) and the United Party for National Development (UPND). In Tuesday 3rd August 2021 Media Statement, Hakoola says aside from deterring active citizen participation in politics, electoral and political violence ultimately results...

FRA buys 22,350 x 50 bags of white maize in Chadiza By Daniel Bili in Chadiza, Eastern Province reporting for ZANIS The Food Reservce Agency has bought 22,350 by 50 Kg bags of white maize in Chadiza District of the Eastern Province since the opening of the 2021 marketing season. ZANIS reports that K1.5 million has been paid to farmers that sold their commodity to the Food Reserve Agency. Chadiza District Commissioner George Phiri confirmed the purchase of maize in various FRA depots to ZANIS on Friday 30th July, 2021. Mr. Phiri appealed to the rest of farmers to bring...

By Daniel Bili, ZANIS in Chadiza District, Eastern Province, Zambia IK CHARITABLE Trust of Lusaka has donated twenty (20) oxygen cylinders to Chadiza District Hospital in the Eastern Province in aid the fight against Covid-19. The stakeholders of the District Multisectoral Team (DMT) welcomed the donation by IK Charitable trust calling it timely. Chadiza Bargain Centre proprietor Javid Munshi handed over the donation to Chadiza District Hospital on behalf of IK Charitable Trust. Mr. Munshi said the oxygen cylinders have been donated as part of treatment in the management of Covid -19 patients. “The hospital management must ensure that the...

By Movement for Better Zambia THE Patriotic Front (PF), realising that they are on the verge of losing the Thursday 12th August, 2021 election, have resorted to lying that UPND is being violent, so as to attract police wrath and equally seek to reduce peoples support for UPND Alliance Presidential aspirant Hakainde Hichilema. Anthony Mwanza and his PF party are hypocrites. Mwanza said in June that UPND is a violent party. This is downright garbage. Everyone in Zambia knows that UPND is a peaceful and progressive party. PF have been using the tactic of causing violence and blaming the violence...