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March 30, 2021 - 0 Comments

ACCORDING to the Kofi Annan Foundation, more than half of the world’s population is under the age of 30 with 57 per cent of the voting population being young people. Despite that high number of...

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March 29, 2021 - 0 Comments

SO the long-awaited coronavirus vaccine that Zambia has opted for through the COVAX roll-out will be AstraZeneca, the British-made vaccine that is the most popular of the 13 COVID-19 vaccines on the market right now....

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March 25, 2021 - 0 Comments

IT is worrying that despite efforts by various stakeholders to curb the escalating numbers of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and child trafficking, the vice continues to affect our society. Child trafficking, one of the worst...

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March 23, 2021 - 0 Comments

ZAMBIA’S undisputed mother of democracy, the MMD is again back in the news a few months before the presidential and general elections. The party which prides itself on having re-introduced multi-partism after it assumed office...

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November 30, 2020 - 0 Comments

THE incident that occurred in Lusaka where a building caved in and killed a worker at the site is one among many incidents that have continued raising questions on the competence of some architectural works....

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November 25, 2020 - 0 Comments

REPORTS from Lundazi about unscrupulous people stealing subsidised fertiliser and seed meant for rural farmers are not new, but they are a source of grave frustration to the Government and the communities these resources are...

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May 8, 2020 - 0 Comments

THE decision by some farmers in certain parts of the country to sell their maize before opening of the marketing season is worrying especially that in some cases, ‘briefcase buyers’ are paying as little as...

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January 24, 2020 - 0 Comments

PEOPLE’s emotions trump reason when it comes to sharing news, the BBC’s in-depth research project Beyond Fake News found in 2018. This rings true for some towns on the Copperbelt where innocent people are now...

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March 9, 2019 - 0 Comments

WE wonder why the suspension of the broadcasting licence for Prime Television by the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) has caused such uproar. We would love to educate sections of the population that has grossly misunderstood...

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December 28, 2018 - 0 Comments

THE country is almost breathing a sigh of relief as political party leaders seem to be moving towards the long-awaited on-and-off national dialogue. Controversy, however, yesterday characterised the eve of today’s much anticipated national dialogue...

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