By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA-ZAMBIA’s Kwacha has in the last one year gained by almost 33 per cent against the United States Dollar, making it the second best performing currency after the Russian Ruble, the Zambia Institute...

By JOSEPH BANDA-AFRICAN countries should strive to achieve favourable sovereign credit ratings for them to access affordable capital and avoid the high cost of borrowing, President Hakainde Hichilema has advised.President Hichilema said favourable sovereign credit...

By JAMES KUNDA-ZAMBIA has 300 kidney failure patients on dialysis treatment, with the Government announcing that the 10 provinces will next month have operational dialysis clinics to ensure effective services.Health Permanent Secretary for technical services...

By KASONDE KASONDE – MORE than 7,000 children aged between one month and four years were last year prevented from getting infected and dying from HIV/AIDS through the Prevention of Mother to Child Transition (PMCT).National...

By CHIMANGENI BANDA in New Delhi, India – THE Government has clinched a deal for the establishment of centres of excellence to be used by India’s famed health care facility, Apollo Hospital to provide services...

AT the height of fighting early marriages, a 16-year-old Grade nine pupil of Itezhi Tezhi District has been forcibly married to a polygamous man and ordered to drop out of school by her relatives. Read...

By JOSEPH BANDA-HEALTH Minister Sylvia Masebo was yesterday involved in a minor road accident in Lusaka’s Kabulonga area.Ms Masebo, who was being awaited to officiate at the HIV Prevention Stakeholder Engagement at Southern Sun Hotel,...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE-ZAMBEZI Animal Welfare Services Limited (ZAWSL) has filed a notice of appeal in the Lusaka High Court over the decision by the State to seize 69 dogs of which 50 have since died.A...

By MILDRED KATONGO-AN 85-year-old man of Mafinga District in Muchinga Province has been hacked to death with an axe by unknown people.Whyson Siluonde of Kasonda village was attacked at his house shortly after supper.Muchinga deputy...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA-FINANCIAL experts in the African Union (AU) have been challenged to develop resilient economies to tackle debt, food crisis and climate change.This will help address the current challenges in the rising debt problems...