By HARBGUY MWAMBAZI – ACCESS to education always brings out the necessary ambitions inside a child and gives an indication of whether his or her future will be positive. The social set up in Zambia...

By MIRIAM ZIMBA – LIKE many other countries globally, Zambia is one of the countries grappling with the effects of HIV and AIDS. According the 2013/2014 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), the country’s HIV and...

By JOYCE JERE – “GOD is going to fix things for you tonight and let things work in your favour. If you believe in Him forward to ten people,” reads the text message. “If you...

By CHRISTINE MWAABA – IT IS baffling to note that while there are many instruments in place for the protection of women’s rights and women living in rural areas are still denied the right to...

By Mildred Katongo and Margaret Mangani – SOME people mostly Africans tend to believe that skin Lightening creams have the possibility of enhancing one’s beauty. A skin cream known as Ambi was commonly used in...

By HLUPEKILE NKUNIKA  – MATERNAL mortality has continued to be the biggest challenge in the health sector in Sub-Sahara Africa. Each year, 265,000 women die due to pregnancy related complications. The region is the most...

Rapid population increase, poverty and urbanisation are some of the social factors underlying environmental degradation. Transportation and agricultural industrialisation are also factors, economic factors, which have an underlying cause of environmental degradation. Warthog recognises that...

THE statistics of AIDS are startling. Since 2000, more than 38 million people have become infected with HIV; 25 million people have died of AIDS-related illnesses. AIDS is one of the leading causes of death...

By SAM PHIRI – ABOUT 340 kilometres from Lusaka deep in the Central Province is an incredibly gloomy school lifestyle which when told would easily be cast aside as fable. This is at Lunjovwa community...

WEDDING dress, decor, cake, ceremony and reception venue are usually planned well in advance – one thing that ties all of these elements together is flowers. Wedding flowers are gorgeous, expensive and only used one...