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By Socialist Party- Zambia “We continue to have a serious crisis of food of mealie meal. Prices are going up every day, while the selling of mealie meal to Congo continues. We have advised Mr. HAKAINDE HICHILEMA and his government against resorting to desperate measures to address the mealie meal shortages in the country. We guided that knee jerk responses to address this problem won’t do. But they did not heed the advice and instead they proceeded with their unachievable plan. To this day, they have failed to stabilize both the supply and the price of the commodity. And this...

By Hellen Bwalya 11.01.24. ….as it intends to support and promote postal and Telecommunications in Zambia. Habeenzu. Government through the Ministry of Technology and Science says that it shall continue to create an enabling environment for Zambia Postal Services (ZamPost) to thrive and move to enhance access to Postal and Courier services throughout the Country. Gracing the Launch of the ZamPost 2023-2027 strategic Plan: Technology and Science Permanent Secretary Brilliant Habeenzu says that in this respect, his Ministry is going to undertake a review of the Postal Service Act 22 of 2009 in order to address the inadequacies in the...

    By Alfonso Kasongo Public Health Specialist (PHS) Dr. Canisius Banda has described the cholera outbreak in Zambia as a national disaster, attributing escalation of the diarrhoeal disease to leadership failure on account of apparent shelving of the Multi-Sectoral Cholera Elimination Plan (MCEP) 2021-2025, which is in line with the roadmap for the Global Task Force on Cholera Control’s (GTFCC). Daring Zambia’s Seventh Republican President Hakainde Sammy Hichilema (HSH7) to take earnest interventions, Dr. Banda attributes the outbreak of the disease to high poverty levels which he said has been triggered by high cost of living and lack of...