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Panos Mobilises Children to Participate in Governance Processes

Panos Mobilises Children to Participate in Governance Processes

Lusaka, 24 August 2017: Panos Institute Southern Africa (PSAf) has mobilised children from the five Zambian districts of Kasama, Petauke, Mkushi, Kabwe and Kaoma to champion the child participation in governance processes. As part of the mobilisation, PSAf has this week brought together 10 children, 12 community media journalists and five teachers from the five districts for a consultative and planning meeting to build strategies to effectively increase children’s participation in governance. PSAf values child participation as an important factor in local governance, as it enables children to freely express themselves and actively influence decisions that have a bearing on...

Mopani action irks Zambia’s Green Party President Peter Sinkamba

By Sinkamba Peter-Green Party President August 22 at 5:46pm   As the Green Party, we extremely nauseated by Mopani Copper Mines (MCM)’s threat to retrench 4,000 miners if Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) sticks to cost-reflective tariffs. We find this threat, when the electorates are paying even at higher rates a perfect example of corporate impunity bred from protectionist policies. The threat is actually an insult to the Zambian Government and its people.   If MCM proceeds to implement its threat, we urge Government to invoke its golden share to outvote all other shares in on this issue. The golden share...

ZAMBEEF’S ZAMLOAF ‘SELLING LIKE HOT-CAKES’

ZAMBEEF’S ZAMLOAF ‘SELLING LIKE HOT-CAKES’

Zambeef’s Mtendere Macro outlet customers wake up to freshly baked bread LUSAKA, ZAMBIA – ‘Fresh, hot and soft’ is how Zambeef’s Mtendere Macro outlet customers will be served their daily bread with the re-opening of a pilot Zamloaf outlet. The food nation’s largest processor and retailer – motto: feeding the nation – is using the latest precision baking techniques to make the finest bread in Mtendere, using local wheat from its Zambian farms “Zambeef is big on value addition that is aimed at closing the gap between the primary production of local produce and food processing, so we have taken...

SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY MR. EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA, AT THE GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY FOR UPGRADING  OF NSELUKA-KAYAMBI ROAD PROJECT IN NSELUKA

SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY MR. EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA, AT THE GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY FOR UPGRADING OF NSELUKA-KAYAMBI ROAD PROJECT IN NSELUKA

  FRIDAY, 11th AUGUST, 2017 HON. CHITALU CHILUFYA, ACTING MINISTER OF HOUSING AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT; CABINET MINISTERS PRESENT; HON. BRIAN MUNDUBILE, THE PROVINCIAL MINISTER FOR NORTHERN PROVINCE; HON. CHRISTOPHER YALUMA, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR MALOLE CONSTITUENCY AND OTHER MPs PRESENT; YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS MWINELUBEMBA KANYANTA MANGA SOSALA II, PARAMOUNT CHIEF CHITIMUKULU; YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESSES CHIEF MAKASA AND CHIEF CHIMBOLA; MEMBERS OF THE PRESS; DISTINGUISHED GUESTS; LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: FROM THE ONSET, I WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE WITH SINCERE GRATITUDE, THE WARM RECEPTION THE PEOPLE OF NORTHERN PROVINCE HAVE ACCORDED ME SINCE OUR ARRIVAL YESTERDAY. I AM GRATEFUL TO YOU THE...

Showing Publisher Logos in Trending and Search

Showing Publisher Logos in Trending and Search

  By Andrew Anker, Product Manager Facebook   SAN FRANCISCO, United States of America, August 22, 2017/ — Today, we will begin introducing publisher logos next to articles in Trending and Search surfaces on Facebook (www.Facebook.com) as part of our ongoing efforts to enhance people’s recognition of the sources of news distributed on our platform. Publishers will now be able to upload multiple versions of their logos through a new Brand Asset Library, so that the logos can appear next to their content on Facebook. We built this in close collaboration with a number of partners, as part of the Facebook...

AAA students claim Inaugural Facebook Challenge Student Award at the Loeries

AAA students claim Inaugural Facebook Challenge Student Award at the Loeries

  The award, which aims to celebrate the achievements of future creatives as they redefine creativity in the mobile era, was created in partnership with Facebook and The Nelson Mandela Foundation DURBAN, South Africa, August 23, 2017/ — The Facebook Challenge (www.Facebook.com), an official Loerie Award in the Student category, was won this year by three students from AAA School of Advertising in Cape Town. The award, which aims to celebrate the achievements of future creatives as they redefine creativity in the mobile era, was created in partnership with Facebook and The Nelson Mandela Foundation. With students from across Africa...

Power Africa Partners U.S. African Development Foundation and GE Announce Women in Energy Challenge Winners in Uganda

Power Africa Partners U.S. African Development Foundation and GE Announce Women in Energy Challenge Winners in Uganda

  Joint Energy and Environments Projects (JEEP) and Conservation and Development Uganda Limited (CODE) will each be awarded a grant of $100,000 to expand their renewable energy enterprises to reach women beneficiaries KAMPALA, Uganda, August 23, 2017/ — The U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF), in collaboration with partners Power Africa and GE (www.GE.com), is proud to announce the winners of the 2017 Women in Energy Challenge in Uganda, where only 20% of the population is connected to electricity. Joint Energy and Environments Projects (JEEP) and Conservation and Development Uganda Limited (CODE) will each be awarded a grant of $100,000 to...

SLAPDEE TO ‘LIGHT UP’ 2ND EPISODE OF COKE STUDIO AFRICA

SLAPDEE TO ‘LIGHT UP’ 2ND EPISODE OF COKE STUDIO AFRICA

  LUSAKA, ZAMBIA – The spotlight falls on Kuichaila hip hop artist artiste Slapdee as he takes to the Coke Studio Africa stage in this week’s episode of the Coca-Cola music series. The second episode, which features the Zambian artist and South Africa’s Busiswa, will be broadcast on QTV this Friday, August 25 at 18:00hrs. Fans can also catch the repeat on Monday, September 4 at 19:30hrs and Wednesday, September 7 at 13:00hrs. Zambia will join the rest of Africa in watching the dynamic duo perform as the show is aired in over 30 countries across the Continent. Top Ghanaian...

UN Assembly President rings Nasdaq bell; sounds alarm on behalf of world’s endangered ocean

UN Assembly President rings Nasdaq bell; sounds alarm on behalf of world’s endangered ocean

By Via UN News Centre The President of the United Nations General Assembly opened the trading day in New York this morning to send the message that the world’s ocean health is in distress. “The ocean is in trouble,” said Peter Thomson prior to ringing the Opening Bell of the Nasdaq Stock Market in its Times Square headquarters. Outlining the perils that lie ahead for the world’s oceans – including warming, acidification, declining fish stocks and a growing hypoxic zone where no life exists – Mr. Thomson noted that as for marine pollution, “there will be more plastic in the...

UN labour agency launches global panel to address rapid transformations in the world of work

UN labour agency launches global panel to address rapid transformations in the world of work

The United Nations labour agency has launched a high-level international body that will chart the course towards a future of decent and sustainable work opportunities for all, and to tackle the challenges of delivering social justice in today’s rapidly transforming world of work. “It is fundamentally important that we confront these challenges from the conviction that the future of work is not decided for us in advance,” said Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) at the launch of the Global Commission on the Future of Work. According to ILO, the global body is expected to undertake an in-depth examination of the...

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