By Edah Chimya, Executive Director, Zambia Alliance of Women ( ZAW) ZAMBIA Alliance of Women is delighted with the results of latest Crop Foresting Survey announced by Honourable Michael Katambo MP – Minister of Agriculture. With the outcome that Zambia’s 2020 Maize Production has increased to 3Million tonnes from 2Million tonnes last year. ZAW is especially excited to note that the increase in production was not only maize focused but that other crops such as Sorghum, Rice, Millet, Sunflower, Soya beans, Irish Potatoes, Bambara nuts, Cow peas, Sweet Potatoes, Wheat, Barley and Popcorns equally recorded increase in production, a sign that farmers are...

By Chalwe Chanadala Youth Coordinator, Leadership Movement ( LM) …… Leadership Movement will bring back the youth empowerment fund in 2021 once in power. WITH Zambia been hit by COVID19 as the Leadership Movement, we feel majority of the Youths are living in Poverty. As a caring government we in the Leadership Movement we promise to bring back the Youth Empowerment Fund which will help a huge number of unemployed youths. Under the leadership of Dr. Richard Silumbe as a government will not allow politics in the disbursement of Youth Empowerment Fund. To all my fellow youths don’t lose hope Zambia is...

Thanks to Dr.Kalimanzila , I have a man who loves me by my side” Most of us may be familiar with that painful, sinking feeling that follows after being rejected by someone you really liked…or loved. A Zambian lady struggled with one broken relationship after another, having been rejected by each of the men she dated. A story of a woman being rejected again and again. For anyone who has been rejected by a lover or been in a relationship that seemed to have blossomed then suddenly it withered away and died, the reasons for rejection may not be so...

SUNDAY 31ST MAY 2020 By Ntalasha Chisha Executive Director, Born Short Living Tall (BSLT) Lusaka AS an organization we want to urge all political parties to consider allocating at least 25% of parliamentary and local government positions for the 2021 General Elections adoptions to the differently abled persons because we believe that disability is not inability. TAKING such an action will break the discriminatory and segregatory barriers that currently exists in our politics where there is less participation from the differently abled persons due to lack of inclusiveness. THE right to participate in public life is essential to create stable...