Friday, April 19, 2024

Feature Rural News

Livingstone International Airport to expand

National Airport Corporation Limited (NACL) has sourced about US$13 Million (K64bn) for the construction of a second Terminal Building at Livingstone International Airport that...

Veteran freedom fighter unimpressed with Pact and Police

United National Independent Party (UNIP), Livingstone District Vice Chairman, Martin Pelton has said the confusions in the UPND and PF Pact are a clear...

Early marriages in Kazungula

Ngambela to the late Chief Musokotwane of the Tokaleya people in Kazungula District has lamented at the increasing cases of defilement and early pregnancies...

The Barotseland contention

The recent protest in Western Province on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010, resulting in very serious injuries and one death was something that should never have happened. But the government's reckless behavior by ignoring Western province submissions to the new constitution has outraged the people of Barotseland. This is a good example of how civil wars are born. One little spark is capable of igniting a huge and destructive fire. All this came about in August 2010, following the release of the final draft of the constitution. It was discovered then that all the submissions from western province were not included. Someone essentially thought they were not that important, and that Zambia can do just fine without them. Turned out to

Two men jailed for 3 years for the theft of 50litres of Beer

Two men of Livingstone's Libuyu Compound almost caused a circus in the Livingstone Magistrate Court yesterday when they where sentenced to 18 month imprisonment...

Poachers kill a ZAWA female officer in Mukubwe

A female Zambia Wild Life Authority (ZAWA) police officer was brutally killed by poachers, while another male officer is battling for his life in...

Crocs maul Sinazongwe man

A 26 year-old man has been severely mauled by a crocodile in Sinazongwe district in Southern Province. A Mweezhya ward councilor Bernard Syanyambwe confirmed that...

Bicycles offer a lifeline in rural Zambia

In rural Zambia, a bicycle is one of the most important possessions someone can have. At one school, when they were given out to pupils...