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Govt to spend K5 billion on Chipata dry port study

The Zambian government is to spend slightly above K5 billion on a feasibility study for a dry port in Chipata, Eastern Province. A tender promoted by the Zambia ministry of Finance currently circulating and whose eligibility is limited to the European Union (EU) states that the value of the study is 800,000 EUR. “The overall [...]

President Rupiah Banda is on Friday expected to travel to the Eastern Province to attend to a family bereavement, according to his spokesperson Dickson Jere President Banda will leave for Chipata on Friday morning where he is expected to attend to the bereavement. “The President and his delegation are expected to return to Lusaka on [...]

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An over zealous would-be voter has been arrested for trying to register two times. Acting Lusaka Town Clerk, Bonwell Lwanga has been quoted saying the would-be voter had registered in Chingola on the Copperbelt and traveled to Lusaka where tried to register somewhere in the  Kanyama slam. Lwanga could not name the arrested man but [...]

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Zambia and Brazil have signed an agreement that would remove the requirement of visas by their citizens visiting either country. This is one of the eight agreements and two memoranda of understanding to enhance cooperation which the two countries entered into today. One MoU signed Thursday morning in Zambia relates to Food and Nutritional Security [...]

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The price we have paid in the struggle for press freedom has at times been great, but the price our countries will pay without press freedom is greater still. We urge you to respect the right and duty of Zambian journalists to transmit news and a diversity of opinion.

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