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Business
FAO launches $500,000 project to transform Zambia food systems
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a US$500,000 two-year project aimed at transforming Zambia’s food systems, improving food security and strengthening resilience to climate and economic shocks. The Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP), titled “Catalyzing Transformative and Sustainable Food Systems…
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Africa & World
Front-line aid workers and health workers honoured on World Humanitarian day
MARGARET CHISANGA Lusaka FRONT-LINE aid workers and health workers, who often risk their lives while trying to safeguard women and their babies in the world’s most dangerous settings, have been honoured for their work. In a statement to mark World Humanitarian day, United Nations Population…
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Business
Zambia, FAO seek US$300 million to climate-proof agrifood systems
Zambia and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have agreed to strengthen collaboration to mobilise approximately US$300 million in climate finance to climate-proof the country’s agrifood systems. The commitment was made in Rome, Italy, following high-level bilateral discussions between Minister of…
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Politics
Hichilema pledges to use UN Human Rights Council seat to strengthen rights at home
President Hakainde Hichilema has pledged to use Zambia’s seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to strengthen the promotion and protection of human rights at home, bring the Council closer to citizens and amplify the voices of developing countries. Zambia was elected to…
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Sport
Zambian lawyers charge govt to match UN Council seat with domestic human rights record
The Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) has called on the Government to match Zambia’s election to the United Nations Human Rights Council with a firm commitment to respecting, protecting and promoting human rights and freedoms at home. The association said Zambia’s membership of the Council…
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Africa & World
Zambia, EU reaffirm partnership at UN event, as Haimbe denies report of protests by Zambians
Zambia and the European Union have reaffirmed their partnership and agreed to deepen cooperation in investment, economic development and critical-mineral value chains during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York. European Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jozef…
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Lifestyle
How did the church find itself at the centre of this conflict? by Fred M’membe
It’s very sad that some religious leaders have found themselves at the centre of the political conflict facing our homeland today. Their crime was to accept to work with the United Nations and the Zambian government in handing over Brian Mundubile and Makebi Zulu to…
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Africa & World
“For more than half a century… Niger’s uranium has lit the cities of Europe while our cities have remained in darkness. That injustice is now over.”- Niger’s PM at UNGA
Niger has just delivered perhaps one of the most defiant African speeches at the United Nations General Assembly. The message was uranium, sovereignty, France, Ukraine, the Alliance of Sahel States, and a declaration that Niger will never again surrender control of its resources. The PM…
