Rural News

Chinsali Committee on Epidemic and preparedness in Muchinga Province has resolved to meet the clergy in all churches and traditional healers to discuss the health protocols and guidelines put in place to stem the further spread of the COVID-19....

KALOMO district commissioner, Joshua Sikaduli says operational challenges facing learning institutions pose a threat to the delivery of quality education to pupils. Mr. Sikaduli made the remarks after touring three learning institutions in Kalomo yesterday to appreciate the challenges such...

Muchinga Province Assistant Secretary Chiwele Kondomone says he is saddened by the high number of Gender Based Violence (GBV) cases in the province. Mr Kondomone says it is disappointing to see that barely a week passes without recording...

Kazungula Town Council Chairperson Tatila Mbozi says decentralization is essential to sustainable development in the country. Ms Mbozi says it is important for the citizens to note that the primary objective of the decentralization policy is aimed at accelerating...

Paramount Chief Chitimukulu of the Bemba people has pledged to sponsor girls at Chimba Secondary School in Mungwi District who will attain excellent results in Grade 12 during this year’s examination. The traditional leader says he will use his organization,...

The Mansa Trades Training Institute says it has the capacity to manufacture desks that can meet the deficit in schools across Luapula Province. Mansa Trades Training Officer DETWILA NKONGE said the school will take advantage of government’s ban on importation...

The government has retrieved 19 girls from forced marriages out of a total of 22 girls who were married off by their parents and guardians in Shiwang'andu `district. Shiwang'andu Education Board Secretary (DEBS) Kalale Katele says the issue of...

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) says it will repair the extensively damaged Masasabi irrigation dam in Itezhi Tezhi district, Southern province. ZANIS reports that this information was disclosed at a stakeholder meeting on the...

Chief Nkweto of the Bemba people in Chinsali in Muchinga Province has called on the government to consider the construction of a good road network from his Chiefdom to the Central Business District. Chief Nkweto said the construction of a...

Newly appointed Mufumbwe District Commissioner, Patrick Kalelemba has implored heads of government departments and parastatals to guard against segregation in their service delivery. Addressing his first meeting with district heads yesterday, Mr. Kalelemba said Zambia and Mufumbwe, in particular, has...