Zambia News

SALARIES for nurses and health workers who went on strike recently will be withheld despite appeals from the Zambia Union of Nurses Organisation to rescind the decision.

The Zambia Union of Nurses Organisation has commended President Rupihah Banda for pardoning health workers that were on strike but has also appealed to the president to rescind Government's decision to withhold salaries for nurses.

The Zambian Congress of Trade Unions has asked the government to withdraw its threat not to pay all public service workers who took part in the just-ended strike.

The fourth largest river in Africa, the mighty Zambezi, is a lifeblood to 32 million people, from land-locked Zambia to Mozambique on the Indian Ocean.

He said he wanted to concentrate on tackling environmental issues in his rural constituency in northern Zambia.

A one-stop border post will be established between Zambia and Tanzania to facilitate economic co-operation between the two countries, President Rupiah Banda has said.

Kuomboka , meaning "moving out of the water". Every year the king of the Lozi people journeys from the flooded plains to higher ground.

TAP Zambia,A a subsidiary of Africa Resources Limited,A has written to Finance Minister Tendai Biti seeking assistanceA to recover US$700 000 extracted from the company when it was under the stewardship of SMM administrator, Arafas Gwaradzimba.

Striking nurses in Zambia have defied a government deadline to return to work or face dismissal.

Lusaka - The Zambian government is ready to face a leading South African bank in court for $74,3-million dollars sought over the breach of a feedstock contract, the attorney general said on Friday.

MORE than 300 health workers in Ndola have been asked to exculpate themselves or face disciplinary charges for allegedly going on an illegal strike.

THE new investor that has taken over Luanshya Copper Mines , China Non-ferrous Metal Group Company , has started re-engaging former employees, who have been flocking to the general offices in large numbers.

MORE health workers in Lusaka and the Copperbelt yesterday reported for work ending the three-week long strike after the Government promised to commit itself to meet their demands.

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PRESIDENT George Kunda has said the Government will decisively deal will all forms of financial crimes in the public sector.

STRIKING health workers have been given an ultimatum to report for work by Monday, failure to which they should consider themselves fired for staying away without authority for more than 10 days.

LY bad little monkey was caught on camera spending a penny on Zambia's PRESIDENT.

In the last couple of years, there have been a number of high-profile studies exploring the relationship between male circumcision and HIV acquisition.

Lusaka - Zambia will sack all striking nurses and paramedics if they do not return to work immediately, health minister Kapembwa Simba said on Friday, 22 days after medical staff first walked out in a pay dispute.

The tormented sister of Trowbridge man Kaye Townsend, who was murdered in Zambia three years ago, believes closure will only come when his killer is finally brought to justice.