H5N1 (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Via Lusaka Times.com: Swine flu breaksout at Chipembi Girls. Excerpt:Swine flu has broken out at Chipembi Girls’ High School in Chibombo district. Chibombo district Commissioner (DC) Colonel Philip Chabakale and the Provincial Education Officer Paul Ngoma confirmed the outbreak in...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Wage talks for hundreds of copper miners at Zambia’s largest copper mine, the Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), resumed on Tuesday. The salary negotiations disintegrated into violence last week when hundreds of the miners staged a protest leading to the arrest of eight miners. The miners became impatient at the slow pace of the negotiations, thereby staging the [...]
ONE (Free subscription) | yesterday
UNICEF USA’s Fieldnotes Blog has a great report from a rural health clinic in Zambia– specifically post-natal and prevention of mother-to-child treatment (PMTCT) care. The whole piece is worth a read. Excerpts below: Rolina is HIV positive and is enrolled in the clinic’s PMTCT program. She and her husband Terrance married in 2002 and they have [...]
Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
URL: http://www.civicus.org/media/446-CIVICUS-Analysis-Zambia-NGO-Bill-2009.pdf . Source: CIVICUS. Civil society is now internationally recognised and respected as a sector with legitimate roles to play in society, just as the government and the private sector have their own distinct roles to play. One such role of government is to promote and protect human rights, which includes ensuring space for...
DeSmogBlog aggregator (Free subscription) | yesterday
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
STANDARD Chartered Bank has reduced its Kwacha base-lending rate from 24 per cent to 21 per cent with effect from next month because of stability in the economy.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE reduction of the Kwacha base-lending rate by Standard Chartered Bank, which will come into effect next month, is a positive move which will benefit the Zambian economy.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda was yesterday among several mourners that attended the requiem mass for former Zambia Army commander, Georjago Musengule's son, Joe, who died last week.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
MMD Lunte Member of Parliament (MP), Felix Mutati, has urged party officials not to despair following the party's recent defeat in the Kasama and Solwezi Central parliamentary by-elections.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
SPECIAL assistant to the president for Press and public relations, Dickson Jere has said insinuations that President Rupiah Banda played a role in second Republican president, Frederick Chiluba's trip to Nigeria, are erroneous.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
When Obed Mumba first came to the Zambian copper mining town of Ndola in search of work, it was still known reverently as "Ku kalale" - the land of the white man. In the decades since, he has witnessed his Kabushi township outgrow the limited dreams of its planners.
the central shaft (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The Witch was a Tuff sounding lofi band From Zambia.. Witch released just one album, Lazy Bones, in 1975. It is a work of sheer genius. Witch played a sort of wah-wah psych but with a bit more darkness. Check out the opening track, "Black Tears." It starts out rather melancholy and builds into a chugging, almost Sabbath-inspired shuffle before finishing with a doomy end. Lazy Bones!! sounds...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Zambia coach Herve Renard has said Chipolopolo Boys are ready to take on Kenya's Harambee Stars in the CECAFA tournament opener match next Saturday.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
THE prisons reforms process seems to be well underway and the release of the second batch of prisoners under the parole system confirms the determination of the authorities to push the reform process forward.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
MMD national secretary Katele Kalumba has said his party's loss in Solwezi Central Constituency by-election is a strong wake up call to reorganise itself and regain the confidence of people in the area.
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