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Zambia’s public hospitals have been hit by a critical shortage of essential drugs and other medical supplies which the government has blamed on an “overhaul of the drug procurement system”.
Zambia’s fourth post-independence president Rupiah Banda died on Friday following a short battle with colon cancer, his family has announced.
A Zambian firm has begun producing fuel from used tyres and plastic containers using technology that could hold the key to easing the country’s headache over high fuel import bill and unsightly litter.
The US government has awarded a US$25,000 grant to assist refugees and host communities in Zambia’s largest refugee camp to improve their livelihoods by developing their entrepreneurial skills, the US embassy said on Thursday.
The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) is this month expected to complete part of the work to rehabilitate Kariba Dam that is jointly shared by Zambia and Zimbabwe and a major source of hydropower generation for the two neighbours, ZRA said on Wednesday.
Zambia’s national football team the Chipolopolos are waiting in the wings hoping against the odds to replace Zimbabwe at the 33rd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations which kicks off in Cameroon on January 9th should FIFA act on a ban threat against the Warriors.
Zambia has introduced COVID-19 booster shots for those seeking extra protection against a virus that has so far claimed more than 3,700 lives in the southern African country.
The first 100 of nearly 5,000 refugees who fled violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) four years ago left Zambia for home on Tuesday under a voluntary repatriation programme set to continue into 2022.
Zimbabwe has secured funding to construct a railway line that will link the capital Harare to Kafue in Zambia and ease the congestion on the main highway connecting the two countries, according to Transport Minister Felix Mhona on Tuesday.
The United Kingdom has removed a ban on travellers from Zambia and 10 other African countries in a move seen as a reaction to widespread criticism of alleged discriminatory and “unscientific” responses by the West to the recent emergence of a new COVID-19 variant.