The government provided citizens of Chikanta Chiefdom, Kalomo District, with a canter truck, 45 bicycles, 4 sewing machines, a barbing machine and other items

African Rivers, a Zambia-based international conservation organisation, has voiced its opposition to plans to cull elephants in southern Africa following the recent severe drought in the region

The government will continue to support capacity-building programmes to strengthen organisations representing people with albinism in order to help them defend their rights

Forecasts for the 2024/2025 rainy season predict normal or above-normal rainfall, with episodic heavy rainfall and flooding in rainfed areas, after the last rainy season was characterised by severe drought

ZESCO, Zambia’s power utility, announced that the critically low water levels of Lake Karina, now at just 8% of usable storage, will force a scale back of electricity generation; the shutdown of Kariba North Bank Power Station is scheduled on 14 September