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Zambians most undernourished in Africa-FAO Report

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The latest State of the World Insecurity Report released by the Food and Agriculture Organisation shows that Zambia has the highest prevalence of undernourishment in Africa.

The report shows that with 48.3% of the population being undernourished, Zambia has the highest number of citizens undernourished on the continent.

Zambia is followed by Namibia with 37.2%.

In the world, Zambia ranks 2nd worse after Haiti (51.8%).

The Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates indicate that global hunger reduction continues with about 805 million people are estimated to be chronically undernourished in 2012-14, down more than 100 million over the last decade, and 209 million lower than in 1990–92.

It said in the same period, the prevalence of undernourishment has fallen from 18.7 to 11.3 percent globally and from 23.4 to 13.5 percent for the developing countries.

The report further says that sustained political commitment at the highest level is a prerequisite for hunger and nutrition eradication.

“It entails placing food security and nutrition at the top of the political agenda and creating an enabling environment for improving food security and nutrition through adequate investments, better policies, legal frameworks, stakeholder participation and a strong evidence base. Institutional reforms are also needed to promote and sustain progress,” the report says.

The report adds that hunger and undernutrition requires an integrated approach, which would include public and private investments to raise agricultural productivity; better access to inputs, land, services, technologies and market and measures to promote rural development.

It also observes that social protection for the most vulnerable is essential, including strengthening their resilience to conflicts and natural disasters; and specific nutrition programmes, especially to address micronutrient deficiencies in mothers and children under five.

And commenting on the report, the Zambia Civil Society Scaling up Nutrition Alliance says the reports makes for sad reading to see Zambia as one of the worst in terms of undernutrition in the world.

“This is shocking considering our development potential as a country. When one examines the report, you realize that the statistics referred to were drawn from the 2007 Zambia Demographic Health Survey. Since then, there has been no national wide survey conducted in Zambia on its position in as far as undernutrition,” CSO-SUN Alliance Coordinator William Chilufya observed.

Mr Chilufya continued, “As a country, we are not doing well in terms of producing up to date statistic. It is impractical to be using 2007 statistics to inform decision making in 2014.”

He has since called upon Government to be committed to providing regular data to enable effective programming for Nutrition in the country.

“Otherwise, we risk the continued portrayal in international publications as though the most recent interventions undertaken were done in 2007. This report exposes Zambia on the global scene as far as our commitment to undernutrition is concerned and is therefore a call to all to increase efforts towards the fight against malnutrition.”

86 COMMENTS

    • This report is NOT worthy believing as data used to arrive at the conclusions is outdated. though am not PF and i dont support them these conclusions are false. where does the survey results place south Sudan, central African republic and Somalia where there is no mtendere and they depend on food handouts.

    • I hope this report doesn’t getting discredited by Saulosi and Mushota all in the name of patriotism. The government should do something about this instead of making the citizens Ba sebana wikute.

    • And you people abused me when I said the voter looked hungry or poverty stricken, Just by questioning how she could have made an informed decision. Some of you even went to say the officer was fat. But fat and shiny is sickness, Very serious indeed. Sad. if we don’t accept that there is poverty we wont do anything to alleviate it.
      And for some you that said I was suffering and working my arse off am not. you will soon be reading you papers in shame that a Zambian has signed one of the most lucrative contracts with figures you can only just dream off. God bless mother Zambia anyway. will continue constructive criticism.

    • I have followed this report and studied it like a pastor studying his bible.

      The statistics are now better and in 2002 when is mmd rule the undernourishment was 58%. This clearly means that under PF the undernourishment is getting better and people are leaving health. Once again a testament to Zambians to vote PF so that zambia moves off this disturbing report soon where they had languished bottom 8 years ago.

      I am disgusted an insightful and intelligent insight I have enlighted was not included.

      change government in 2016 at your peril

      Thanks

    • ‘………strengthening their resilience to conflicts and natural disasters; ‘

      What could be happening in this country? … as we do not experience any of the above? The major issue is poor leadership at the top and corruption at all levels. What a shame.

    • The picture shows the seventh day Adventist members giving gifts to the needy. This is what is needed by all the churches by taking care of the poor and not leaving it to the govt only, however, that’s not the case. What we find now is that most church leaders are there for self gain. Every Sunday sermons are on “give enough to be blessed.” The church also is sucking the little penny that the undernourished people have in the name of blessings which will not come that way. Wake up Zambians! Know which is the right way of giving to God. God is clear on how to give him and how that money should be used by the church not by selfish individuals to buy mansions, luxury vehicles and other expensive items in the name of halleluyah amen God bless you!

    • This is what i say ama blogers abengi are just too ignorant, most should be kids or people with nothing to do. Malnourishment and Hunger are not the same. A child feeding on debonnairs pizza is bound to be malnourished. This has nothing to do with the government, PF, MMD UPND, kawalala party or your neighbour. This is a sign of irresponsible parents who think feeding children on junk is being modern…

    • Zambia and then followed by Namibia ? You gotta be kidding me ! Where is Somalia and South Sudan ? I know most of you are excited about this since it has given you a chance to throw cheap jabs at the PF, but hey let us be realistic. Have you tried to question yourselves how they came up with these statistics ? This survey is as biased as they come. A good statistical survey must be clustered to avoid it getting skewed and hence misrepresenting the facts. I have issues with these kind of surveys. I`m sure they just went to one or two health centres in Shangombo, Umwisho or Nabwalya and got the figures from HIV and TB patients receiving soya beans under the world food program. I wouldn’t buy into this if i were you.

    • This report sums up what life is like for most Zambians under Sata and his PF minions.

      Only a f00l would disagree with this report. Zambians are malnourished because they have nothing left to buy other food nutriments with after buying aka bunga and paying for water and electricity.

      Lets not beat about the bush about this. Its the high cost of living under Sata and his PF minions which is responsible for continuously creating this problem highlighted by the FAO report.

      All what Sata and his PF minions think is that road construction is what defines a healthy and developed country.Shame on them.

      Only UPND and HH will restore Zambia back to Mwanawasa ‘s standard because PF and Sata have failed to provide the required leadership to solve Zambia ‘s problems.

    • Where are the nutritionists?

      I believe this has more to do with the quality of food Zambians eat. Nshima, the main base meal, is mainly a carbohydrate. The nshima with ndiyo, ubau, busunso (relish) is the main dish twice a day for low-income families. The relish which is supposed to provide other nutrients is usually short because of price and limited supply. For many families there is no breakfast for adults and that served to the children is usually the same carbohydrate in form of maize meal porridge or cassava root, sweet potatoes (when in season) etc.
      The Somali diet is richer in protein due to the abundance of fish, milk, goat and camel meat/milk. the main dish is similar to Italian and Arabic dishes. Even during war time their bodies are better adapted. So, maybe we are……

    • In Zambia its not due to lack of food but rather the way these foods are prepared,

      The cooking of food in Zambia is unbelievably so basic in most households.

      On the other hand i doubt the accuracy of the report

    • If the looks of the president is any thing to go by, then yes it’s true. The man looks like he hasn’t had a meal in months and his supporters here say he looks healthy. And he is one of the richest in the country. Go figure!

    • Never ever trust surveys! Anyways something gotta give…….in any case population, Geography, Economy, Stability effects are essential playing factors which make doubt the aunthenticity of such researches! Ponder on the factors I have listed and be your own judge but then again….. It is meaningless especially if you never travel I dont mean Air port to Air port!

    • This response is to Bwalya. While you may want to disagree with the report out of patriotism, it’s important to be pragmatic at the same time. Yes, some parts of the world the FAO does not have such data. Somalia as an example is a place where there is no functional government. South Sudan there is war, and certainly you should not constraints of productivity in war times. Coming back to the Zambian situation, we have had peace, as most of us want to think, but in real terms “relative peace” and to experience a situation of undernutrition should be alarming. What would be the cause then? Simple fact; mismanagement or “chimbwe-no-plan”, corruption, nepotism, tribalism and all.., leading to hunger! Madam Bwalya, we could do better and no reason to have food issues at home. Let’s get…

    • Kekeke my colleage,
      They don’t realize that its talking about nourishment. They think eating meat or stealing pigs and chickens instead of raiding people gardens for rape and chibwabwa is helpful go help them.
      Your right

    • Why they start comparing with the first person in the population , in this case Sata? It was Sata and Katema who have pulled the numbers down.

    • Cat Power and Point,

      Those refuting the report are just yapping from without and ignominiously trying hard to make themselves feel better. Otherwise, the statistics empirically and logically stand.
      As of current, our Zambia children are suffering from kwashikor, malnutrition and marasmus of which can be tackled by improving our nutritional education.

  1. This report is NOT worthy believing as data used to arrive at the conclusions is outdated. though am not PF and i dont support them these conclusions are false. where does the survey results place south Sudan, central African republic and Somalia where there is no mtendere and they depend on food handouts.

    • Ignore it at your own peril. Time and again we have been advised as a country to push agriculture and food production to the top of our options as in economic drivers, but alas, it is mining, mining and mining! Given the year this survey was carried, we can not place the blame, not yet anyway, for this result, on the current policies although we know that nothing has changed.

    • Bwalwa Chiselema,

      You’re still lingering in the dwellings of denial. Face reality, this is an authentic report. Its sad that you doubt empirical evidence of world genuine institutions such as Food Agricultural Agency.
      Remain in denial.

    • #Nostradamus (2.3)# Kwena wandepula . @ they just took one look at Sata and Joseph Katema and made their conclusions about Zambia.

      You see, even when we are in dire straits we Zambians are able to laugh at ourselves. I love this country. Even though we may be malnourished like Sata who has been working tirelessly.

    • Get the log in your eye to clearly see the speck in your neighbour’s eye. FAO has no borders, and look into self and solve the issue, then talk about others who deem undernourished.

  2. Bufi! Ulabeja! We surely ar better of than alot of countrie in africa – like Sudan olo Ethopia.

    Twapapata Ba fao Muletusebanya. Use updated data.

    • My brother I have read this report in detail. Download it first. Its taking about nourishment not number of meals. The people in Ethiopia will eat those brines that will give them necessary vitamins. Have you seen the number of scabies of babies here. The number of pot bellied children. I remembered the last time I took a walk in Mutendere I though I was drinking less than babies. Bellies everywhere. I cry mother Zambia. Though I must confess, I went to by Timber from remote Luapula deep Bulyambeba and I saw the healthiest strongest looking children. its the diet or nourishment they are talking about.

    • I like your observation @Cat Power. Matter of fact the tendency I have noted amongst my compatriots is that they advance quantity over quality. This is why having a pot-belly is mistaken to be a sign of wealth when it is a signal to see a doctor quick! Yes, we may have rounded meals but what do they comprise? Therein lies the tale. Add to that the fact that our own people are not able to follow up on data collection and when you have a report with 2007 data for 2014 reporting you start complaining instead of upping your game of having up-to-date info on which your recycled political governments can then make better decisions…

    • Did you say Ethiopia? Wow, you have not traveled indeed! Ethiopia bwana is in it’s own league in the so called Sub-Sahara Africa. They are way better.., buckle down to work before you compare yourself without facts. What airline do you fly by the way on your way to buy merchandise in Dubai? Which airports do you use?

  3. Is there a link between loss of our bumper harvests and now Zambia’s under nourishment? Is PF govt the common thread in those two?

    • PF was nowhere in sight when 2007 data were being collected after some donor funding was given to an NGO that pocketed at least half of it! However, I hasten to state, most of the office-bearers in the PF government were happily serving on the MMD ticket then…

  4. those of u refuting the report must be half buried in amuzement park sand,, coz u dont move around Zambia.

    when last did u visit your vilage? if at all u have..
    do u have poor family members?

    Zambia is in problems guys, the people try their best to work thei ass….z out just to fein for meals but its just too hard.
    politicians selfishness, their bad policy, poor implementation systems of a few good policies, corruption and many more is killing our lovely mother Zambia. what is left of us to be proud of?
    i guess the link Zambia campaign..
    am done!!!!! its so frustrating..

  5. THIS IS VERY TRUE. AND FORTUNATELY OR UNFORTUNATELY,ZAMBIA HAS PLENTY OF SOURCES OF FOOD TYPES.BUT ZAMBIANS DON’T KNOW HOW TO USE THOSE FOOD SOURCE TYPES TO COME UP WITH MANY DIFFERENT DISHES. SOURCE OF CARBOHYDRATES IN ZAMBIA INCLUDE (AND NOT EXHAUSTIVE LIST) SWEET POTATOES, MAIZE, IRIS POTATOES (FILASHI), FINGER MILLET, SORGHUM, RICE, YAM, CASSAVA, UMUMBU (root), ETC WITH EQUALLY MANY SOURCE OF VEGGIES, BEANS AND MEATS TO RELISH THE ABOVE CARBOHYDRATES. STARTERS AND DESSERTS SOURCES ARE PLENTY. BUT, ZAMBIANS THINK LIFE BEGINS AND ENDS WITH/IN NSHIMA. THEREFORE, THEY STARVE AND BECOME UNDERNOURISHED

    • ZAMBIA NEEDS INNOVATIVE NUTRITIONISTS TO COME UP (OR DESIGN) DIFFERENT ZAMBIAN DISHES OF MAIN,DESSERT AND STARTER COURSES TO MAKE FOOD ABUNDANT IN ZAMBIA INSTEAD OF STICKING TO NSHIMA ONLY. JUICES AND OTHER SOFT DRINKS CAN BE MAKE FROM DIFFERENT TYPES OF FRUITS AND BERRIES WE HAVE IN ZAMBIA- BOTH WORLD(impundu, amasuku, imfungo, amasafwa, insongwa, amasawu, etc) AND FARMED (oranges, grapes, guavas, pineapples, pears, pomegranates, bananas, etc) FRUITS AND BERRIES. THE ABOVE FRUITS CAN ALSO BE A SOURCE OF DESSERTS. THERE ARE SO MANY FOOD SOURCES TO MAKE SNACKS FROM IN ZAMBIA. BUT I DON’T KNOW WHAT OUR FOOD TECHNOLOGISTS WHO GRADUATE AT THE COLLEGE NEAR CHELSTON REALLY DO. THIS IS WHERE FOOD PROCESSING IS AND IS THEIR JOB TO INNOVATE.

    • @Peter – you are actually stating the wrong approach that Zambians have. They pile rice, potatoes, inshima, and a quarter loaf of bread on a plate with a mountain of meat and think they have variety. We eat TOO MUCH of one food type at any given time. Therein lies the problem Sir.

  6. Peter is completely right. The problem is that our staple food, maize nshima, has very little nourishment in it. I remember when I was younger I people used to eat millet, cassava, sorghum in town. Now it is rare to see people eating any of these nutritious grains in any form. We need to look at this obsession with white breakfast mealie meal and try to change eating habits.

  7. That report is really fake. We can’t be the least in terms of poverty in Africa. Poverty is there in Zambia, but Zambia is not the least. That is just a bedroom report for people who want to discredit Zambia because of selfish motives! Let us be factual when reporting on matters concerning our Nation.

    • It is not poverty. It is MALNUTRITION. Iwe!!! Don’t digress. We are discussing useful things here and all you think of is poverty. Ala!

  8. why is it that all the bad things are happening in Zambia and they are at their peak? If it is not the Son raping his own mother, then it is the father sleeping with his daughter. if it is not a soldier shooting his wife, then it is the policeman beating his wife. God help us, the devil has found Zambia to be the most suitable host. We are on our knees.

  9. This is very true….Those who are in denial of this fact have never moved even in the remotest parts of Zambia. Just take a survey of our neighboring countries, which one can we compare with?Bunda bwakulanda ati twalishiba icisungu!! We are a hunger stricken nation.

    Once we accept this, trhe we will start working on it but as long as we remain in denial, then we wont solve this big problem we are facing.

  10. This report is important but it has come a bit too late. There is just no way a survey conducted 7 years ago can give a concrete state of affairs this year. Maybe at that time it was correct, but now it is not correct. Of course as others have mentioned, where does the report currently put the countries experiencing conflicts and droughts? Please urge them to do a research and report within the shortest possible time, not after 7 years because the report may not truly show the correct situation at present.

    • @Observer: ….urge them to do a research….Typical Zambian problem. It is you the Zambians who need to do your researches. CSO is telling you they need funds to carry out surveys to update the statistics & nobody is listening to them!

    • @The Observer – conflict and malnutrition are not necessarily synonymous. In fact the paradox of the matter is that wealthy, stable countries do come out as having malnourished citizenry (talk about the onset of lifestyle diseases, etc.). Displacement and continuous trauma on populations does result in forced malnutrition, too, however. As we have indicated elsewhere on this forum, we need a mindset that pays attention to data because accurate information can only come from timely data that are collected from our own passion and not a donor-driven or outside initiative. CSO must not beg for funds – they MUST BE ALLOCATED according to their MANDATE! Yaba! Zed cabe! Eish!

  11. Mine is a long one. . . .but I will try and summarise it. I agree with the understanding that undermalnurished is not the same as hunger although there is a link the two are apart. In this day many people are ignoring many nutriocious foods for the western type food which have also been condemned in the western world. But everything to be viewed as morden is what everybody is on now.

    I also take full recorgnition that in 2002 udermalnurishment was at about 58% so we probably might be making strides – but I think we are not moving fast enough. We have the potential of not only raising on the charts but becoming Africa’s major food contributer.

    But unfortinately it has to be noted Zambia is the most expensive country in Southern Africa that tells you a lot so cheap junk is here

  12. The research is very porous and it appears to have been conducted by lay men who wanted to paint a bad picture about Zambia. Zambia has a population of about 13 million people (adult and children). The report claims that 48.3% or 6.3 million people are undernourished. This is a very alarming figure which does that represent what is on the ground. The rural population are self sustaining and receive Farm Input Support most of them and have food security. The report has not defined what factors they used to determine/define undernourishment. If they bothered to look at the Vunerabilty Assessment Mapping (VAP) at the Early Warning Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture they would have been closer to the truth. Otherwise this report is fake.

  13. And we Zambians expect to win Soccer World Cup, Africa Cup of Nations with undernourished players? My foot! We are even failing to update data that we actually generate ourselves! We are indeed a malnourished nation. I have not not seen so many Zambians jogging in the morning. Now I do understand. If most Zambians were to go out jogging in the morning, most of them would fail to go back to their homes. Guess why? I leave this to you.

  14. Zambia surrounded by 40% of the water in Southern Africa and still ranking world’s most poverty stricken country. There was another shameful article on the same depressing stats in 1987 by The Economist magazine that ranked Zambia below Ethiopia and Somalia who at the time were receiving food aid. Surprisingly even Congo DRC that feeds on Zambia isn’t on this poverty list. This proves we have had a succession of very deranged leaders from 1964 to now who know diddly squat. They should hang their heads if they have any sense of shame and bugger off.

  15. Please, fellow Zambians, let us understand that hunger and nutrition are not the same thing. Yes, we have been having bumper harvests of MAIZE and most people have enough NSHIMA to eat. But the problem is that we don’t have a broad-based diet. Many mothers feed their babies on MEALIE MEAL PORRIDGE and little or nothing else. Even those of us who are educated tend to eat more carbohydrates than anything else. That is why we are undernourished.

  16. Been and seen DRC, Madagascar, Malawi and Zim. Heard of real poverty in Somalia, Ethipoia, South Sudan, Chad, CAR etc. We are certainly better. But then someone people use poor statistics to attract aid and I think that’s the plan!

  17. As an intellectual, a demographer in particular.i wish to pose the following questions.
    1.what was the sample size;was it a national representative sample size?
    2.In terms of demographic differentials,who are the most affected,women or men, children or adults,educated or uneducated, rural or urban citizens?
    3.Who were the research subjects,rural or urban citizens, breastfeeding mothers or not?
    I HOPE THESE RESEARCH FINDINGS ARE NOT DOCTORED.I AM WISHING TO SEE THE ACTUAL REPORT NOT THIS STORY WHICH LACKS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE.

  18. Reading most comments above,its clear that most Zambians are not educated,we have been in class rooms yes but,still mental dysfunction exists in our brain.UNDERNOURISHED and POVERTY are different.The main problem per zed is people work for a living,not to contribute to the well being of our country,no innovation or brainstorming,we lack passion to the work we do.

  19. This report makes a sad reading; It has exposed the country in a wrong light. I am questioning how updated that information is and where the data was collected from. We need to improve on our statistical services in the country to ensure that we can supply correct data.

    Secondly, I would like to indicate as families we have abandoned our traditional foods for quick fixes. Even the aspect of feeding on cassava or maize porridge is all as a result of laziness by parents failing to spend time to prepare food for the family. Food preparation is an art hence time and planning has to be put into it.

    It has to start from your own home, how well nourished is your household?

  20. Whoever wrote piece of rubbish is a complete *****! How does Zambia and Namibia be worse than the Central Africa Republic, South Sudan, Somalia, Western Sahara, Chad, Mali, Congo or even Eritrea. I do not need these bogus statistics to know that our country is better off. Check how many refugees fleeing hunger from their own countries and ricking their lives to cross the Mediterranean. If you will find a single Zambian, then you can spew such garbage on my country! Otherwise, take that report and shove it up your tranchion.

  21. This is true and sad. The implications are even glimmer. Under nourishment results in retardation of intellectual development. You can expect lower IQ among affected people in such situations. Perhaps this explains some of the emerging strange thinking traits that were absent in the Kaunda error- just thinking. The question is how did MMD lead such a potentially rich country into this abyss?

  22. Food and Nutrition Commission must work extra hard to meet the challenge. It is also quite possible that an element of amplification is clouding the thinking.

  23. This is very sad reading, how do we come second to Haiti? we all know what Haiti went through.
    Our leadership should study the report and come up with steps to get rid of the shame.

  24. William Chilufya has implicitly indicated that we are so incompetent we are failing to sell ourselves. By alluding to information arrived at from data collected in 2007, it shows you that this over reliance on donor funding to even wipe our own behinds will keep us forever at the mercy of disinformation. We need to make certain sectors of our country such as following up on wellness and health a top priority the same way we abide by International conventions such as airlines and engineering structures. Can’t we do that!? Then we will not be whining about being “unfairly treated” by organizations that only have what we have provided them after a donor-driven initiative!

  25. There is nothing to be shocked about here. Zambians can’t do anything apart from DRINKING ALCOHOL. It is only in Zambia where people praise and respect individuals for drinking too much and being a thief. That is why President Sata is having a tough time getting rid of these blood-sucking squirrels from his government team.
    You have husbands spending their entire salaries on paying rentals for girl friends in stead of buying food for their wives and children. The Zambian society is a disgrace. The most undernourished in Africa, among the most corrupt in Africa, the laziest in Africa, the loudest in Africa in terms of talking too much but no action, and now even football standards have become among the lowest in Africa. Atase!

  26. If the country and decision makers in particular are feeding on such ancient, stale and expired statistics like that; then how much nutrition do you think the country is getting intellectually? This is a disaster, an intellectual catastrophe!

  27. Can’t believe nations like Niger, Northern Nigeria, Mauritania, DRC are better than Zambia nutrition wise. But then this is the reward of having dysfunctional and malnourished President Sata.

    There was no need to carryout another survey. Sata is there as figurehead and they concluded, ‘If their president is like this…..what about the rest….?’ That’s our reward!!!their sampling was only in state house. See what happens tomorrow…9/19 …

    Sata is mourinished

  28. Only an ***** of miniscule reasoning and judgement will take the FAO report seriously , FAO and other UN wings are part of the global conspiracy of elite organisations that is made up of over paid technocrats that continually fail in all their supposed humanitarian missions probably deliberately inorder to keep inbred *****s like wanzelu subjugated in their own fantasy world of unimaginable idiocy and lunacy. Are you telling me Niger, Mal, Sudan and Somali as Saulosi also mentioned above have citizens that are better nourished than in Zambia? Wanzelu and your fleas if you honestly believe that please go to Mali and become citizens there hopeless cretins.

    • When the same international organisations said Zambia had worked hard enough to deserve re-classification as a middle-income country, you all celebrated!!! You are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts. You can’t pick and choose like a chameleon. By the way, have you seen a typical Sudanese dinner plate? What do you have in Zambia apart from the constant nshima and relish, with very little imagination to that. If you constantly feed your children on nshima and kapenta everyday how do you expect them to be nourished? Accept your reality and improve, rather than always pointing the finger at someone else. That is why Zambia is full of failures, because most people refuse to accept reality when things fail, so they never get to learn anything in life.

  29. these results are far from being true. what methodology did they use. I just finished the study in the same area and my results show some great improvements in this area. my you provide the source

  30. ”This is shocking … When one examines the report, you realize that the statistics referred to were drawn from the 2007 Zambia Demographic Health Survey. It is [absurd] to [use] 2007 statistics to inform decision making in 2014″ Mr. Chilufya has nailed it… However, I have known poverty to be very shy and it likes hiding from the eyes of those who pamper their bodies and feed from sumptuous tables….

  31. This is a damning indictment on the way the country is run. This is a symptom of a very corrupt nation whose leadrrs know nothing but to loot resources to the disadvantage of common pipo. This is a disgrace and embarrassment to zambia especially that zambia is a rich country. This massive development that Pf is bragging abt. This country is slowly degenerating into DRC. Shame!

  32. Atase. Rubbish article.
    ….but then lets check our diets. Zambians believe too, too much on akabwali chapwa. Look at our athletes (football players).

    I am sure under the PF Govt things will improve.

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