Japan allocates US$5 million to WFP and UNICEF in Zambia
The Government of Japan has decided to allocate US$5 million to the Republic of Zambia through UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP). The purpose...
SOUTH AFRICA-ZAMBIA: Divisions surface on the proposed cluster munitions ban
South Africa cut a lone figure in Zambia's tourist capital of Livingstone as the only African country not to endorse a global ban on the use of all...
African nations gather to support a ban on cluster bombs
A 39-nation coalition in Africa passed a declaration on Tuesday to ban cluster bombs in a nearly unanimous vote. The gathering in Lusaka, Zambia was...
Webster Katope: "I had no idea I had TB"
Webster Katope*, 43, a pastor from Lusaka who is married with three children, found out he had tuberculosis (TB) in 2007. He talked to IRIN/PlusNews...
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Feeling the bite of rising food prices
With no end in sight to rising global food prices, families across southern Africa are being forced to tighten their belts. “Everything is very...
ZAMBIA: Mobile phones to the rescue
Satellite communication equipment including phones have arrived in Zambia to help several thousand flood-affected people access aid in time. More...
ZAMBIA: Never too old to learn
Clara Moyo, 50, has 11 children and three grandchildren. She went back to school a few years ago, and is now in grade 10 at the same secondary school...
ZAMBIA: A new kind of internally displaced people
Zambia's open-door investment policy is coming under criticism from rights activists for passing on the real cost of development to the poor, who are...
ZAMBIA: Rumours of HIV in contraceptive spread panic
A public health scare sparked by allegations that batches of the injectible contraceptive, Depro-Provera, contained the HIV virus has exposed deep...