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By Lumbiwe Mwanza GOVERNMENT in collaboration with the private sector should strengthen modalities of increasing youths’ opportunities to turn rural areas from zones of poverty to zones of productivity, the Youth Development Foundation (YDF) has said. Speaking to The Scoop in an interview, YDF Executive Director Chinoya Muyeye observes that

By Lumbiwe Mwanza THE Government will go to sleep if the opposition is not providing checks and balances, therefore people must not be gagged but should have a say in issues of national interest, says Political scientist Alex Ngoma. And Dr. Ngoma has advised the opposition not to thrive on

By Lumbiwe Mwanza THE allocation of some tonnage of fertiliser to be supplied by certain companies will disadvantage the rest of us and this will render the whole process an academic exercise, some agro dealers have complained. The Agri Business Association of Zambia (ABAZ) claims that bidding in the procurement

By Scoop Reporter THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested and charged former Kabushi Constituency Parliamentarian Bowman Lusambo for being in possession of a single story four-bedroom house reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime. Mr. Bowman Lusambo of Lusaka’s Chamba Valley area has been charged with one count of being

By Martin Mashekwa/ZANIS-Kalomo PEOPLE of Sipatunyana Ward in Kalomo District of Southern Province are living in fear as they have been terrorised by a herd of marauding elephants for the past week. Area councillor, Howard Munsanje, has confirmed the development to ZANIS today saying the Jumbos have destroyed maize and

By Lumbiwe Mwanza IT is encouraging that the UPND administration has bought into the idea of the cultivation of cannabis in Zambia for medicinal purposes, opposition Green Party leader Peter Sinkamba has said. Recently, the Controlled Substance Bill 2023 was introduced in Parliament whose objective is to provide for the

By Lumbiwe Mwanza GOVERNMENT should have empowered local farmers by giving them more land and other incentives to produce more food for the readily available market in Kenya instead of giving land away, the Zambia Land Alliance (ZLA) has said. The Ministry of Agriculture has hobbled over reports in Kenya

By Jessica Mwansa GOVERNMENT has today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Liquid Telecommunications to connect internet to all parts of Zambia, including secondary schools, to ensure transformation of quality education is delivered in the country. Speaking during the signing ceremony, Minister of Technology and Science Felix Mutati says

By Scoop reporter PERMANENT Secretary in the Ministry of Green Economy and Environment John Msimuko has called for timely and predictable financial flows to Zambia and other African countries to enable the attainment of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Speaking at the ongoing Africa Knowledge Exchange event hosted by the Climate

By Jessica Mwansa in Lunga GOVERNMENT should provide us with alternative sources of income during the fish ban which leaves us impoverished from December to March every year, fishmongers and fishermen in Luapula’s Lunga District have said.   Lunga is surrounded by water bodies including the Lake Bangweulu on one side