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PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has with immediate effect made changes to his Cabinet in a move that has seen Deputy Defence Minister Eustarkio Kazonga being appointed as Local Government and Housing minister. (AllAfrica)

The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) is once again under fire from opposition political parties and some civil society organisations, which accuse it of bias in favour of the ruling party during elections. (AllAfrica)

YESTERDAY'S march past and commemoration to kick off the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence was significant in many respects. (AllAfrica)

PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has warned of stern action against Government officers who will be found deliberately withholding farming inputs from beneficiary farmers. (AllAfrica)

MOVEMENT for Multi Party Democracy (MMD) treasurer Suresh Desai has maintained that the recent workshop at Andrews Motel in Lusaka had the full blessings of the party secretariat. (AllAfrica)

A TOTAL of nine cooperating partners have confirmed their commitment to give Zambia more than K1trillion in Poverty Reduction Budget Support (PRBS) towards the 2010 national Budget after noting the Government's progress in addressing most of their concerns. (AllAfrica)

FIRST Lady Thandiwe Banda has said that Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV/AIDS is the surest way of saving humanity from extinction. (AllAfrica)

A Malaysian economic adviser has urged Zambians seeking investment partnerships with foreigners to ensure they packaged their business and combined resources forming big sectoral consortiums which would attract foreign investors. (AllAfrica)

POLICE in Chipata have arrested two officials of a non governmental organisation (NGO) called Harvest Help for swindling peasant farmers more than K600 million. (AllAfrica)

GOVERNMENT has said former Western Province MMD chairperson Simasiku Namakando has recovered and will be discharged from hospital soon. (AllAfrica)

THE statement made by Patriotic Front (PF) leader Michael Sata, alleging that Parliament and the Judiciary have destroyed democracy in Zambia, is the most unpatriotic statement from a national political leader, Chief Government spokesperson Ronnie Shikapwasha has said. (AllAfrica)

MMD Parliamentary Chief Whip Vernon Mwaanga has said that it is indiscipline for former Defence minister George Mpombo and others to continue attacking President Banda through the media when they are aware of communication channels within the party. (AllAfrica)

MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) on Tuesday evening called for the arrest and prosecution of civil servants who leak State secrets to unauthorised persons. (AllAfrica)

DESPITE conceding a third successive defeat at the Africa U-19 Girls' tournament in Dar es Salaam yesterday, it was by far Rwanda's best performance at the five-nation tournament. (AllAfrica)

Since the introduction of major economic policy reforms in the early 1990s, private investment, including FDI, have played a greater role in Zambias economy. This report undertakes an extensive examination of the patterns and trends in FDI in Zambia to date, and identifies actions needed to attract more FDI into the country and diversify its production and export base from mining to other products and services. The analysis finds that the impact of recent FDI inflows on the local economy has (eldis.org)

In 2000, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research (MOER) established a cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Sports (MOES) in Nepal and one with the Ministry of Education (MOEZ) in Zambia. This paper contains the case studies of these two programmes, which make up the second part of a Norad report evaluating inter-ministerial cooperation (IMC) as a model for capacity development. In Zambia, IMC consisted of a ministry-to-ministry cooperation, which included sharing of experience between colleagues, (eldis.org)

This country study from the UNDP's International Poverty Centre examines fiscal policy in Zambia, particularly how expenditure and taxation could be used to accelerate growth and reduce poverty. Drawing on results from a national study, the paper finds that: The Zambian government has little opportunity to choose its own fiscal policies, and is restricted by an array of external conditionalities HIPC debt relief will result in less fiscal space, rather than more projected G8 (eldis.org)

This policy brief encourages greater civil society involvement in debates around national grain (particularly maize) policies and regional food insecurity in Southern African Development Community countries. The brief argues that local evidence on the impact of national maize price and market policies can help to inform this complex issue and to address long term strategies for the region. The report summarises the regional debate over maize market reform which is sometimes characterised as technocrats (with (eldis.org)

This paper, from Human Resources for Health, explores biomedical and traditional health practitioners experiences of, and attitudes towards, collaboration. The paper also identifies obstacles and potential opportunities for collaboration in the care of patients with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV and AIDS. Focusing on two urban sites in Zambia, findings show that there is very little experience of collaboration. Although there is some collaboration through the training of traditional birth attendants (eldis.org)

Cotton is a rare economic success story in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), generating cash incomes for millions of smallholder households and allowing the continent to capture a rising share of world trade in the crop. There are, however, concerns that declining prices and costs of inputs could threaten these positive outcomes. With cotton sector reform in much of SSA a decade old, it is now possible to begin learning from experience. This paper assesses the record of five countries in southern and eastern Africa: Tanzania, (eldis.org)

In response to predictions of an impending food crisis in southern Africa in 2005 - 2006, Oxfam deployed a relief response. As an alternative to emergency food aid, the agency undertook cash transfer schemes in both Malawi and Zambia. This paper presents an evaluation (undertaken in May/April 2006) of this endeavour, providing key lessons for the use of cash transfers in both short-term humanitarian crises and longer-term development programmes. The evaluation finds that, in both countries, the vast majority of (eldis.org)

Social protection is a relatively new concept in southern Africa. Regular, predictable and guaranteed transfers to the vulnerable in most countries have yet to be integrated into existing policies safeguarding lives following livelihood shocks such as drought and conflict. This study reviews existing knowledge of social protection practices and lessons in Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Swaziland. Although numerous advancements have been made in the thinking and practice of social protection in this (eldis.org)

Despite the alturistic tenets of democracy as a concept, rarely are these beliefs actually realised to their full extent. With widespread abuse of power by the elected representatives of both northern and southern societies, public participation has become a vital component in the formation of domestic and foreign policies. But how andto what extent can civil society truly influence policy? This handbook, from the Centre for Governance in Africa, aims to enable civil society to participate effectively in (eldis.org)

DAKAR Wednesday, October 14, 2009 (IRIN) - Designed to be safe havens in times of disaster, health facilities are vulnerable to upheaval when catastrophe strikes, according to the UN, which is focusing on hospital safety for International Day for Disaster Reduction. (irinnews.org)

It was ostensibly about obscenity, but it was really about corruption and censorship and in the end, justice prevailed.

In Zambian, the editor of the independent Post newspaper, Chansa Kabwela, has been acquitted of obscenity charges.

LUSAKA, 16 November 2009 - Abigail Mwanashimba has been looking after her five siblings since the age of eight, when her parents died of AIDS-related illnesses.

A Lusaka Magistrates' court today freed a newspaper news editor who stood charged for circulating photographs of a woman in labour during Zambia's strike earlier this year.

THE Citizens Economic Empowerment Fund has launched its translated Act of 2009 in seven local languages and in Braille to enable every targeted citizen benefits from the initiative.

THE Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence slapped on Brian Mumbi of Lusaka who stabbed his aunt Dainess Banda to death in unexplained circumstances.

TWO ailing members of a Chimwemwe Township family ravaged by a mysterious disease have finally been evacuated to the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka for further medical investigations.