ZAMMSA RELOCATES EQUIPMENT FOLLOWING THEFT
The Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZAMMSA) has moved its equipment and medicines from a warehouse near the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport to its central warehouse in the light…
FORMER MAID BECOMES EMPLOYER FROM FRITTERS
A former Lusaka maid who runs a roadside business selling fritters has had her fortune changed. Diamond Media has had an upclose with 39-year-old Patricia Mulenga who started with a…
INFLATION GOES UP TO 9.6 PERCENT
Zambia’s annual rate of inflation for February 2023 has increased to 9.6 percent from 9.4 percent in January. Zambia Statistics Agency (ZAMSTATS) Interim Statistician General, Mulenga Musepa says the increase…
STAKEHOLDER NOT IN FAVOR OF PLANNED TAXATION OF MOBILE MONEY TRANSACTIONS
Players in the mobile money business have bemoaned the intention by Zambia Revenue Authority to devise ways of taxing mobile money transactions to broaden the tax base of the country.…
TRANSPORTERS WARY OF TAZAMA, BUT GOVT ASSURES PROFITABILITY
Local Fuel Transporters have expressed mixed feelings over government’s policy to configure the Tanzania Zambia Mafuta (TAZAMA) Pipeline to transport Low Sulphur fuel and Kerosene from Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania to…
GOVT PLEADS WITH MILLERS TO REDUCE PRICES
Agriculture Minister, Reuben Mtolo Phiri, has urged millers to reduce mealie meal prices to at least K150. Speaking at a press briefing, the Minister says millers should replicate the Zambia…
LIVINGSTONE’S SAKUBITA BRIDGE FLOODS
Residents of Livingstone’s Maloni- Sakubita compound woke up to a rude shock after a night of heavy rains flooded the infamous bridge that connects them to the central business district.The…
DRC’s KATANGA PROVINCE IN MEALIE MEAL CRISIS, TURNS TO ZAMBIA FOR AID
As Zambia faces high mealie meal prices, Democratic Republic of Congo, Katanga Province Governor says his province is equally hit with a dire shortage of the commodity. Speaking when he…
GOVT SOURCES FUNDS TO INVEST IN MOPANI
President Hakainde Hichilema says government has managed to source funds that will help boost Copper production at Mopani Copper Mines and ease operations. President Hichilema says the company is one…
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About 55 herds of livestock in Mazabuka District, Southern Province, have drowned in Kafue River where they were trapped following the rise in water levels after continuous heavy rains.