Poverty stricken Zambia projected to have highest population growth rate in the world
Three-week-old Mukuka Chanda is cradled in his grandmother’s arms in George compound, Lusaka. He is one of 10 who live in a house of three small rooms. His grandmother, a widow, is HIV-positive and struggles to provide for the family. Mukuka is born into the 64% of Zambia‘s population which live below the poverty line, and he, like [...]
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Youthful lawmaker Andrew Holness was sworn in Sunday as Jamaica’s new prime minister, ushering in a government he said would heal political divisions, root out corruption, reduce debt and bureaucracy and attract foreign investment to reduce poverty. The 39-year-old Holness took the oath of allegiance to his country in front of about [...]
Continue reading …Almost the entire MMD Lusaka Province Executive Committee has resigned from the opposition party to join the ruling Patriotic Front-PF. And some executive members at District level have also defected from the MMD to join the ruling party. The team of twenty five leaders was led by MMD Provincial Secretary Samson Mkandawire at Nakatindi Hall [...]
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