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Zambia launches Integrated Health Situation Room to Fast-Track progress towards Ending AIDS, TB and Malaria

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April 18, 2018

Zambia launches Integrated Health Situation Room to Fast-Track progress towards Ending AIDS, TB and Malaria

By Derrick Sinjela in Lusaka The Zambia Integrated Health Situation Room centralizes health data for HIV, Tuberculosis (TB), maternal health and Malaria to ensure more effective and precise programming to reach more people with services. Lusaka/ZAMBIA, 6 March 2018—Inonge Mutukwa Wina, the Vice-President of Zambia, and Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), today launched an innovative new tool to track progress and identify gaps in HIV, TB, maternal health and Malaria programming in Zambia. The Zambia Integrated Health Situation Room shows in real-time service delivery data and produces a comprehensive picture and understanding...

Tenth ICT4D Conference To Focus On Impact For Development Sector. Takes Places In Lusaka, Zambia, 8 – 10 May 2018

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April 18, 2018

Tenth ICT4D Conference To Focus On Impact For Development Sector. Takes Places In Lusaka, Zambia, 8 – 10 May 2018

By Zambian Developmental Media Alliance (ZADEMA)  Lusaka, Zambia, 18 April 2018: ICT4D Conference 2018, the largest event of its kind for the humanitarian development sector, this year aims at mapping out to the path for technology to make the maximum impact on improving humanitarian relief and development work. This 10th conference brings together over 600 ICT experts, programme managers and senior executives from 80 countries, from NGO staff to academics, technology business leaders, governments and UN agencies. The importance of the conference for Africa and beyond is reflected by the honour of Zambia’s President, H.E. Edgar Chagwa Lungu, being expected to...

TopStar’s Cliff Kachinga Sichone unveils ‘Ndiye Itambika’

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April 16, 2018

TopStar’s Cliff Kachinga Sichone unveils ‘Ndiye Itambika’

By Derrick Sinjela TopStar Sales Director, Cliff Kachinga Sichone launched  ‘Ndiye Itambika’ campaign in which the price of the Direct to Home -DHT- decoder combo has been reduced from K299 to K1 99 Kwacha with a one-month free subscription. Mr. Sichone assured the local market that customers purchase purchasing the digital -DTT- decoders priced at K99 will equally enjoy the one-month free subscription. A delighted Mr. Sichone said TopStar is resolved to guaranteeing households in Zambia’s ten provinces, namely; Central, Copperbelt, Eastern, Luapula, Lusaka, Muchinga, Northern, North-Western, Southern and Western to access to quality and affordable digital television. “In line with...

TopStar’s1,000 local firms creating jobs, brags Cliff Kachinga Sichone

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April 16, 2018

TopStar’s1,000 local firms creating jobs, brags Cliff Kachinga Sichone

By Derrick Sinjela AS A responsible corporate entity, TOPSTAR Sales Director Cliff Sichone says the telecommunications and pay television s brand is complementing the Zambian job creation agenda through interactive business synergy with  1,000 local firms. TopStar built as a  Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) and StarTimes of China joint venture, is earnestly transitioning Zambia from analogue to digital television (TV) signal transmission. Mr. Sichone brags that the public-signal distributor is collaborating with business outlets across Zambia’s 10 provinces namely; Central, Copperbelt, Eastern, Luapula, Lusaka, Muchinga, Northern, North-Western, Southern and Western increasing access to digital television. “TopStar is committed to creating...

Sweden’s Margot Wallström fights gender inequalities

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April 16, 2018

Sweden’s Margot Wallström fights gender inequalities

By Nelson Banda in Stockholm, Sweden SWEDISH Minster of Foreign Affairs Ms. Margot Wallström has opened a Gender Forum to intensify international efforts for promoting gender equality, witnessed by over 600 global delegates in the Swedish Capital, Stockholm. The Forum has brought key representatives from civil society organizations, governments, business, and academia to find solutions, take new initiatives, and strengthen co-operation in the international fight for gender equality. The Forum is hosted by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Institute in collaboration with Swedish International Development agency (SIDA) and the Folke Bernadotte Academy. “The conference is construed as...

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April 16, 2018

Stanbic’s Leina Gabaraane seeks people-centered banks

…customer-centric products improve financial inclusion By Mulenga Mathews in Ndola Stanbic Bank Zambia Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Leina Gabaraane holds a commercial belief that concerted efforts by a diversity of stakeholders, built on financial inclusion principles will act as a key driver of economic growth in Zambia. However, Mr. Gabaraane says achieve inclusive development, financial institutions and corporate entities must improve accessibility to products and services among rural communities beyond the proverbial line of rail markets. Gabaraane recalled that in 2016, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimated that 60% of the Zambia’s proper banking outlets were in Lusaka and the...

President Lungu appoints Christine Mwelwa Kaseba-Sata as Zambia’s French envoy

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April 16, 2018

President Lungu appoints Christine Mwelwa Kaseba-Sata as Zambia’s French envoy

By Derrick Sinjela President Edgar Chagwa Lungu has appointed former First Lady Christine Mwelwa Kaseba-Sata as Zambia’s Ambassador to France, with Mpongwe Gabriel Munshya taking a Public Policy Specialist portfolio in the Policy Analysis and Co-ordination Division at Cabinet Office. President Lungu swore Dr.  Mwelwa Kaseba-Sata as Ambassador Extra-ordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Zambia to the Republic of France on account of her 30-years- health practitioner experience at State House on Monday, 16th April, 2018. In a Media Statement circulated by Cecilia Lubumbashi Mulenga (Mrs), a Chief Analyst-Press and Public Relations, on behalf of SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE...

“Registration Opens for Afreximbank’s Annual Meetings”

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April 16, 2018

“Registration Opens for Afreximbank’s Annual Meetings”

By Derrick Sinjela   Cairo, 15 April 2018: – Registration for the 2018 Annual Meetings of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), which will also feature the Bank’s 25th anniversary celebration, has opened, according to information released by the Bank today.   Afreximbank announced in Cairo that intending participants for the meetings, dubbed AAM2018, could register by visiting the Annual Meetings website at: http://www.afreximbank-am.com/. The site also contains additional details about AAM2018, including the event programme and hotel accommodation information.   Afreximbank Annual Meetings are open to banking industry professionals, trade and trade finance practitioners and other parties involved in economic...

Helmut Reutter discerns a profitable Zambia

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April 15, 2018

Helmut Reutter discerns a profitable Zambia

By Saeedi Simon Banda and Derrick Sinjela FOURTEEN years after its birth, CHRESO University Chancellor Helmut Reutter is encouraging students and teaching staff to build a successful heritage beyond computer excellence achieved by Apple founder, Steve Jobs. On his part, Vice Chancellor, Lawrence Mwelwa is prodding students and teachers to bequeath future generations, through contributing into the Legacy Project, meant to consolidate the learning edifice, as Chreso University held a Third Open Day themed: ‘Changing the World through mind transformation’, adapted from Romans 12:2 Aside from honouring deserving faculties at the Makeni and City Campus facility, Reverend Helmut and Dr....

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