50/50 by 2030! Empower women, End Violence DATE: 8-9 DECEMBER 2016 VENUE: MIKA HOTEL, KABULONGA, LUSAKA, ZAMBIA 1 December 2016 The Newseditor Pan Africa Radio Lusaka INVITATION TO THE ZAMBIA SADC GENDER PROTOCOL SUMMIT AND AWARDS Gender Links Zambia and the Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance invites you to the Zambia SADC Gender Protocol Summit and Awards under the banner “50/50 by 2030! Empower Women, End Violence” taking place from 8-9 December 2016 at Mika Hotel, Kabulonga, Lusaka, Zambia. GL will also take the opportunity to launch the 2015 GMPS findings and plan on how gender issues can be advanced...

By Judith Banda Two female juveniles of Monze drowned in a ditch full of water as they were celebrating end of school term yesterday. Southern Province Police Commissioner Bonny Kapeso confirmed the development in a statement to the media. He said the two have been identified as Mutinta Chimunya and beauty Muzele aged 11 and 12respectively. Both pupils were at Chongo basic school located on Monze-Namwala road. Bodies of the deceased are in Monze Mission Hospital mortuary awaiting burial and police do not suspect foul play.

By Gilbert Bwalya Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) president Linda Kasonde has continued getting some stick over her venomous comments on State House press aide Amos Chanda. Patriotic Front (PF) Secretary General Davis Mwila said Kasonde will now be considered a political enemy of the ruling party. After signing the book of condolences of the late Revolutionist Fidel Castro, Mwila said it is sad that Kasonde has auctioned herself to the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND). But Electoral Expert Macdonald Chipenzi wonders why Mwila has labeled Kasonde an enemy of the PF. Chipenzi said Mwila is off tangent...

By Gyft M’membe Southern African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Dispute (SACCORD) Executive Director Boniface Chembe has dispelled assertions from the opposition that he has taken a partisan stance in nodding to Inspector General of Police Kakoma Kangaja’s decree to nab armed people. Early this week Police IG Kanganja made a pronouncement that any one carrying lethal weapons in public will be arrested as a way of deterring political cadres from engaging into violence ahead of the general elections slated for 11th August, 2016. Speaking in a live telephone interview on Pan African Radio ‘Let’s Find Out’ Programme today...

By Ashton Kelly Bunda UNITED States of America (USA) Ambassador to Zambia Eric Schultz is worried that Zambian adolescent girls and young women are increasingly at greater risk of HIV infection,” reports Zambian Photo-Journalist Ashton Kelly Bunda. Ambassador Schultz says vulnerability to HIV infection confronts lot of people with varying community, social, economic, cultural and marital status. In speech read by United States of America (USA) Charge d’ affairs Christopher Kraft, Ambassador Schultz observed that although HIV and AIDS is not in headlines, this category of health concern remains an emergency claiming innocent lives at a fast pace. Officiating at...