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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:Justice Minister Given Lubinda,Chief Justice Ireen Mambilima,High Court Judge Justice Conceptor Chinyama Zulu,Court of Appeal Judge Just Mwiinde Siavwapa, Court of Appeal Judge Justice Betty Mwaka Majula,President Edgar Chagwa Lungu,Vice -President Inonge Wina,Court of Appeal Judge Justice Petronella Chama Mwitwa-Ngulube and Deputy Chief Justice Marvin Mwanamwambwa after the Swearing-in-ceremony at State House in Lusaka on Wednesday,January 10,2018. PICTURE BY SALIM HENRY/STATE HOUSE ©2018

First Lady Esther Lungu when World Trade Centre Deputy Executive Director Dorothy Tembo paid a Courtesy call on her at State House on Tuesday, January 30,2018 -Picture by THOMAS NSAMA  

By Derrick Sinjela LOCAL Government Association of Zambia (LGAZ) President  Christopher Pikiti Kang’ombe petitioned President Edgar Chagwa Lungu to facilitate a six-point changes meant to improve service provision throughout Zambia’s 110 districts of the ten provinces namely, Central, Copperbelt, Eastern, Luapula, Lusaka, Muchinga, Northern, Northwestern, Southern and Western.  First,  during a Friday 12th january 2017 interfacewith  President Lungu at State House in Lusaka, Kitwe Mayor, Mr. Kang’ombe and his peers want ‘Councils’ to be allowed to collect motor vehicle licence fees, Toll fees and sale of electricity in line with Article 147 of the Republican Constitution.   Secondly, Councilors propose that the K2 Cement...

On 8 December 2017, SDG Advocate Professor Jeffrey Sachs gave opening remarks at the event, ‘Sustaining Peace: Partnerships for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding’. This event was hosted by the President of the 72nd General Assembly (PGA) of the United Nations, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), the UN Global Compact, the United Nations Foundation, the New York University Center on International Cooperation, and the Quaker United Nations Office. Professor Sachs spoke of the timely issue of sustaining peace and how SDG 16 is one of the utmost priorities for not only governments, but civil society, academia, and the private sector. Sachs...