Africa Zambia Zambia's National Institute of Public Health called for collaboration across all sectors in the fight against antimicrobial resistance, stressing that it remains a threat to humans, animals, plants and the environment
Africa Zambia Zambia has been selected to be among the first countries to benefit from the Climate Investment Funds' new Nature, People and Climate investment programme to preserve the environmental integrity of the Zambezi Basin
Africa Zambia Zambian ranger Neddy Mulimo, senior support manager of Game Rangers International, a non-profit wildlife conservation organisation founded in Zambia in 2008, received an award for his work against poaching
Africa Zambia Rating agency Moody's has stated that it believes Zambia will remain subject to a high risk of redefault in the future due to limited external financing sources, very weak governance, exposure to environmental and social risks
Africa Zambia Zambia's UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Prosper Ng'andu, has said the Refugee Settlement Modernisation Approach that the country will use will strengthen the protection of refugees as will ensure that they are fully self-sufficient
Africa Zambia Contagious Bovine Plural Pneumonia has killed more than 800 cattle in the Nkeyema district of Western Province since June this year; veterinary departments in the province are taking measures to help stop the further spread of the disease
Africa Zambia The Football Association of Zambia has launched an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse in the women's game
Africa Zambia UPND must stop interfering with the work of the Electoral Commission of Zambia because it will backfire on them as they will not be in power forever, Patriotic Front PF Central Committee member Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba has said
Africa Zambia New study by FAO and the Centre for International Forestry Research estimated that rural households harvest at least 12 million large buckets (20 litres) of wild forest food per year, which is equivalent to 125% of the volume of sawn wood produced
Africa Zambia The country expects to increase its tobacco harvest by 25% and earn $92 million from the sale of the leaves when the marketing season closes in September
Africa Zambia Education Hope Foundation board vice-chairperson has challenged companies operating in Zambia to help overcome the dramatic shortage of desks in schools across the country
Africa Zambia The country is expected to soon access a $1,3 billion IMF support fund; the bailout was validated soon after the nation's creditors agreed to provide it with debt relief
Africa Zambia UN has warned that plans by the Zimbabwean and Zambian governments to develop a golf course, lodges and a hydroelectric dam near Victoria Falls will put the popular tourist destination at risk of losing its World Heritage status