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By Highvie Hamududu-President Party of National Unity (PNU) THE current crisis in Lusaka is a build-up of the failed economic policies devoid of people centeredness over the last two decades. Economic policies need a complete overhaul beginning with the 2018 budget, which disappointingly remains business as usual. All arms of government; Executive, Legislature and Judiciary must be repositioned to serve the greater interest of the majority. The post 1990 neoliberal economic policies blindly adopted have failed Africa, and threw the majority into squalor as evidenced by the growing informal sector that is unregulated, unsecured, unconnected to finance and better markets...

Republic of Zambia (This Document is the Property of the Government of the Republic of Zambia) THE NATIONAL DECENTRALISATION POLICY “TOWARDS EMPOWERING THE PEOPLE” Office of the President Cabinet Office P.O. Box 30208 LUSAKA November, 2002 FOREWORD Over the years since our political independence in 1964, successive Governments of our Republic have designed and endeavoured to implement measures aimed at the attainment of full democratic governance and economic independence with prosperity for all citizens. In view of the highly centralized and exclusive structure and systems of government inherited from the colonial era, the subject of decentralization has as a matter...

By PMRC Executive Director Ms. Bernadette Deka   Dear Friends and Colleagues, On the 6th of October, 2017 a Cholera Outbreak was declared in Lusaka. Since then sporadic cases have been recorded across the country with only three fatalities recorded outside Lusaka. Cholera is an infectious disease that causes severe watery diarrhea, which can lead to dehydration and even death if untreated. It is caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae. The Government is currently taking steps to curb the outbreak, among which include, distribution of clean water in the cholera epicenters, increased health...