Lusaka, Zambia News

ZAMBIA recorded reduced poverty levels from 80 to 64 percent midway through the Fifth National Development Plan but the country failed to achieve the target average economic growth rate Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane has said.

Zambia has moved from being a major copper producer and potentially one of the continent's richest countries at independence in 1964 to one of the world's poorest.

A LUSAKA magistrates' court yesterday acquitted The Post newspapers news editor, Chansa Kabwela on charges of circulating obscene materials after finding her with no case to answer.

A Leading Zambian journalist, who was put on trial for distributing "obscene material" in the form of photographs of a woman giving birth outside a hospital, was found not guilty.

LUSAKA, 16 November 2009 - Abigail Mwanashimba has been looking after her five siblings since the age of eight, when her parents died of AIDS-related illnesses.

A Lusaka Magistrates' court today freed a newspaper news editor who stood charged for circulating photographs of a woman in labour during Zambia's strike earlier this year.

A young Durban businessman who created South Africa's first prawn burger has become R200,000 richer after being named SAB KickStarter of the year.

KONKOLA Copper Mines has accused some employees at the Nchanga Integrated Business Unit of inciting their counterparts to protest in pursuing information regarding wage negotiations.

When journalists were beaten by political supporters for covering the president's return trip from abroad, and cabinet ministers and police officers looked on without stopping it, it seemed to be the last straw in the victimisation of the media.

Integration of antiretroviral treatment into public sector antenatal care clinics in Lusaka district, Zambia, more than doubled the percentage of treatment-eligible pregnant women starting antiretroviral treatment before delivery when compared to referral from ANC clinics to antiretroviral clinics, reported William P. Killam and colleagues in a ...

THE Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence slapped on Brian Mumbi of Lusaka who stabbed his aunt Dainess Banda to death in unexplained circumstances.

TWO ailing members of a Chimwemwe Township family ravaged by a mysterious disease have finally been evacuated to the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka for further medical investigations.

THE Government has said thugs ferried by political parties to areas where there are elections are responsible for the violence and urged the parties to stop the practice.

School prefect Ernest Kalyati takes the lead in teaching the importance of washing hands with soap at the launch of a cholera-prevention workshop in Lusaka, Zambia.

The UN refugee agency repatriated 502 Congolese refugees from Zambia on Wednesday, bringing the total number of returnees to the Democratic Republic of Congo to more than 15,000 since May.

An International Monetary Fund mission visited Lusaka October 15-28 to conduct the discussions for the 2009 Article IV consultation 1 and for the third review of Zambia's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility with the IMF.

THE Zambia Revenue Authority has embarked on special audits of mining companies to understand operational issues and other costs in the sector to ensure that the Government collects all the revenue due to it in taxes.

A new campaign in Zambia backed by the United Nations Children's Fund calls for an end to gender-based violence, the second biggest scourge in the nation, following HIV and AIDS, according to the African nation's leader.

THE International Monetary Fund has urged the Government to cut the public sector wage bill to free up some funds for social sector spending which will enhance economic diversification and poverty reduction.

THE European Union will provide 475 million euros for the support to national projects in Zambia over a period of six years, EU acting head of delegation, Francesca Di Mauro has said.