Economy - Development | Society
Zambia mine "tax fraud" causes outrage
afrol News, 18 February - A leaked auditors' report alleging massive tax irregularities in Zambia's key copper mining sector "must lead to" further investigations, civil society groups demand.
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Health
Zambia AIDS treatment reaches 90% of sick
afrol News, 1 December - As HIV/AIDS prevalence is finally being reduced in Africa, also Zambia can celebrate successes in the fight against the pandemic. Almost all Zambians suffering from AIDS now receive treatment.
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Society | Economy - Development
African competition regulators getting serious
afrol News, 11 November - Gone are the days when companies operating in Africa could act with impunity when forming cartels or otherwise limit free competition. Regulators are getting active in most countries, as illustrated by a new major case in Zambia.
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Agriculture - Nutrition | Science - Education
"Fertilizer tree" triples Malawi, Zambia yields
afrol News, 5 November - Scientists have managed to triple maize yields on smallholder farms in Zambia and Malawi by simple "evergreen agriculture" techniques. Planting acacia trees among the crops automatically fertilised the fields.
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Economy - Development
Lusaka Stock Exchange goes real-time
afrol News, 27 September - Real-time data from Zambia's Lusaka Stock Exchange (LuSE) today started to go online, increasing equity trading opportunities for LuSE's local and global clients.
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Economy - Development
Zambia, Malawi finally connected by rail
afrol News / SANF, 21 September - Planned since the 1970s and inaugurated last month, commercial transports have now started on the Chipata-Mchinji railway line between Zambia and Malawi. Soon, a connection to Mozambique's coast will come, pending rehabilitation.
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Economy - Development
Zambia privatisation process still disputed
afrol News / IPS, 9 July - Zambia has sold some 262 state-owned enterprises in the past 18 years, with the latest being the telecom company Zamtel. A former privatisation agency chief says the process was "like grabbing goods fallen from a truck."
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Society | Media
Protests over harsh Zambian sentence
afrol News, 7 June - Fred M'membe, editor and owner of Zambia's independent newspaper 'The Post', has been sentences to a four-month prison sentence with hard labour over "contempt of court", causing colleagues to protest the "harsh" ruling.
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Environment - Nature | Economy - Development
Tanzania, Zambia ivory sales request fails
afrol News, 22 March - Requests from Zambia and Tanzania to hold one-off sales of their ivory stockpiles failed during a CITES species trade meeting today. Inreased illegal ivory sales and poaching during the last years led to the rejection.
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Society | Environment - Nature | Economy - Development
Central African ivory main problem
afrol News, 17 March - According to a new analysis by leading environmentalists, the main problem areas of illicit ivory trade are West and in particular Central Africa, not Zambia and Tanzania, which are struggling to obtain a one-time permit to legally sell ivory stocks.
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Economy - Development | Environment - Nature
Tanzania, Zambia "too corrupt to trade ivory"
afrol News, 12 March - British and US environmentalists have angered Tanzanians and Zambians with a new report strongly advising against legalising the sale of local ivory stocks, saying "official corruption" would lead to further illegal ivory trade.
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Media | Society
Government must stop media attacks
afrol News, 25 January - The Federation of African Journalists has lashed at Zambia's Home Affairs Minister Lameck Mangani’s directive to investigate the legality of the Association of Zambia (PAZA) executive committee.
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Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Gender - Women | Economy - Development | Society
$20 million loan to support smallholder agribusiness in Zambia
afrol News, 22 January - About 30,000 small-scale farming households, in Zambia, many headed by women, will benefit from a US$20 million loan to the country from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
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