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ZAMBIA arrived in Dar es Salaam today, ready for the Africa Under-19 women cricket tournament that starts at Annadil Burhani ground in the city tomorrow. (AllAfrica)

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)

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)

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 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.

Zambia's largest cobalt producer, Chambishi Metals Plc has restarted production after suppliers in the Democratic Republic of Congo delivered cobalt concentrates needed to resume output, the firm said on Saturday.

An International Monetary Fund mission visited Lusaka October 15-28 to conduct the discussions for the 2009 Article IV consultation 1 and for the third review of Zambia's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility with the IMF.

THE International Monetary Fund has urged the Government to cut the public sector wage bill to free up some funds for social sector spending which will enhance economic diversification and poverty reduction.

Zambian President, His Excellency, Mr. Rupiah Bwezani Banda, launched the National Communication Strategy against Gender-based Violence.

By Bizimungu Kisakye John Butime, former FDC national vice-chairman, has returned to the ruling NRM.

THE news that Zambia's poverty levels have reduced from 80 per cent to 64 per cent should be taken as a big achievement for the country that has for many years been fighting poverty. (AllAfrica)

ZAMBIA recorded reduced poverty levels from 80 to 64 percent midway through the Fifth National Development Plan (FNDP) but the country failed to achieve the target average economic growth rate Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane has said. (AllAfrica)

VICE-PRESIDENT George Kunda has told Parliament that the Government has approved a new organisational structure for the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) that will expand and strengthen the institution's capacity to fight corruption. (AllAfrica)

SPECIAL assistant to the President for political affairs, Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika has said that he is not fighting the Litunga of the Barotse Royal Establishment (BRE) or blaming him for the alleged weakening of the MMD in Western Province. (AllAfrica)

LUANSHYA Pastors Fellowship says it is happy that Roan Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili has recognised the goodness of the new Chinese investment and urged politicians not to condemn anything conceptualised by the Government. (AllAfrica)

VIOLENCE that characterised the campaigns for the Solwezi Central constituency parliamentary by-election recurred yesterday in an election that registered a low turnout of voters partly due to the rains. (AllAfrica)

THE United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) has developed three mini-renewable energy resources projects aimed at reducing the global green house emissions and boost the delivery of electricity to rural areas. (AllAfrica)

THE donor community has urged the media in Zambia to be more proactive on reporting on the plight of children if the world and the country are to be safer places for children. (AllAfrica)

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Amusaa Mwanamwambwa has reaffirmed Parliament's commitment to upholding and enhancing democracy. (AllAfrica)

THE Committee of Citizens (CC) has said it will tomorrow release the letter by former Taskforce on Corruption executive chairperson, Max Nkole and expose his alleged contradictory stance on the acquittal of former president Frederick Chiluba. (AllAfrica)

THE Government will in the next few weeks advertise infrastructural projects in various parts of the country under the Private Public Partnership (PPP) initiative where Zambians and foreign firms are expected to participate in the venture, Finance and National Planning Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane has said. (AllAfrica)

A 19-year-old boy was yesterday given two years probation for manslaughter by a Kitwe High Court after he admitted to causing the death of his schoolmate. (AllAfrica)

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)

The paper suggests that nutritional monitoring needs to be complemented by information on the sustainability of household coping behaviour. Unfortunately, very little such information has become publicly available. Food prices and market impacts varied widely across the region. Malawi created a major problem of oversupply, whilst in Zambia the private sector imported substantial quantities of grain when needed. Mozambique provides evidence that private sector import can happen on a regular basis (eldis.org)