Rural News

Grade seven pupils of Kapachi Basic School in Chadiza district have challenged government and other stakeholders to carry out a vigorous campaign to sensitise parents on the importance of sending children to eradicate illiteracy. Speaking to ZANIS in Chadiza today, one of the Children Florence...

Kalabo district Administrative officer has appealed to the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit under the Office of the Vice President to urgently send relief food to flood victims in the area. Mr.Mishengo  Mishengo said the district has been hardly hit by the floods because crops on...

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A 31 year old man of  Chief Zumwanda in Lundazi was yesterday sentenced to  18 months with hard labour for killing his father. Willy Chima of Zombe village, who appeared before High Court Judge Catherine Phiri, was initially charged with first degree murder, which was later reduced...

The Zambia Red Cross Society(ZRCS) in Kasempa has appealed to government to channel some of its resources to the society in an effort to provide humanitarian support to some of the affected areas in the country. ZRCS Public Relations Manager James Zulu said in an interview that...

Chief Nonde of Mbala district in the Northern province has appealed to government to help replace the bridge at Nangwa  river which was recently destroyed by torrential rains. Chief Nondo said the washing away of the bridge has negatively impacted on the movement of the...

A tanker truck, belonging to Caltex, has been burnt to ashes after it caught fire between Nyimba and Kacholola districts this morning. Eastern Police Commanding Officer Emlyn Mushondwa confirmed to Zambia News and Information Services this morning that the incident occurred after the truck developed...

Sinazongwe District Commissioner (DC) has warned motorists coming to the district for the first time to travel during the day because the road is in a deplorable state. Mr. Lavain Apuleni told ZANIS that the Maamba-Batooka road has no signs and heavy rains have washed...

Chief Sinazongwe has charged that Senior Chief Mweemba is creating new villages in his kingdom and has urged government to send surveyors to re-demarcate the area before a dispute erupts. Chief Sinazongwe has since urged his counterpart that conflict was not needed at the moment. He,...

Senior Chief Mweemba has said that his people do not want anything but to shift Sinazongwe district at a central place and to rename it as Dindi . However, Chief Sinazongwe said his subjects would never accept the district to be named Dindi because...

The Minister for Education and Science Mary Hanafin is travelling to Zambia today as part of a mission to examine practical ways to support teacher training initiatives in the country. The Irish Government, through Ireland Aid, has supported development programmes in Zambia, with the education...

Zambia's ambitious plan to use science to boost its economic development and reduce poverty has received financial backing from the African Development Bank. A Ministry of Finance spokesperson, Chileshe Kandeta, announced this month that the bank has approved a loan of 123 billion kwachas (US$30...

By Timothy-Kasonde Kasolo in Nairobi 340 computers running on Linux software platform have been provided to Journalists at the on going World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi- Kenya so as to...

A leader in the worldwide fight to control the spread of HIV/AIDS, Dr. Roland M. Msiska of Johannesburg, South Africa, Director of the Southern Africa Capacity Initiative (SACI) of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), will deliver a lecture and conduct a discussion at...

For the first time, Zambia's science journalists will be recognised by fellow scientists and policymakers for their role in promoting science and technology in the country.The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) announced last week (29 November) that it will award outstanding science and...