First Lady, Thandiwe Banda, says poor staffing levels in health institution has negatively impacted on the delivery of quality services. Speaking when she made donations at Madzimwe rural health centre in Kasenengwa constituency in Chipata this morning, Mrs Banda said health centers especially in rural areas were faced with the challenge of poor staffing levels [...]

Senior officials from over 140 countries met Sharm El  Sheikh, Egypt Saturday to discuss the agenda and draft documents for the 15th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit due on July 15-16 in this Red Sea resort city, preparing for the movement’s direction-taking summit in a new world situation. The summit, with a theme of “International Solidarity [...]

The Anti-Voter Apathy Project, AVAP, is concerned at the slow pace at which the mobile National Registration Card issuance is been conducted. AVAP, Executive Director, Bonnie Tembo, said there is need to speed up the exercise if many people are to be given a chance to obtain NRC’s before the 2011 general elections. Mr. Tembo [...]

Forum for Democratic Alternatives (FDA) president Ludwig Sondashi says innuendos  that he wants to go to State House to enjoy life with his family are a clear misrepresentation of facts by those who are bent on discrediting his character and reputation, and that of his newly formed party. In a press release, Dr Sondashi said [...]

Magoye Association for Orphans Education in Mazabuka is concerned at the high number of small scale cotton farmers allegedly recruiting orphaned pupils from Magoye basic school as farm workers. Association Chairman, Macjewey Simwale said most of the orphaned children are engaged to pick cotton from fields. Mr Simwale told ZANIS in Mazabuka that the children [...]

A 23-year-old man died on the spot after a heap of Copper concentrates collapsed on him at Kansanshi Mine in Solwezi. The incident happened as the miners were loading the commodity on a front hand loader using shovels on Thursday night around 21 hours. One other miner escaped unhurt. Both Northwestern Province Commanding Officer, Fabian [...]

A Ndola based former Freedom Fighter Isaac Kanyanta has called on government to review the witchcraft Act to curb the increased cases of witchcraft in the country. Mr. Kanyata says witchcraft incidences in the country cannot be ignored because many people were getting affected through acts of mere suspicions. He was commenting in the light [...]