The Minister of Finance and National Planning had a meeting with the outgoing World Bank Group President to discuss the debt crisis

The road network in the western province should be developed with bituminous standards, declared the National Assembly Commission for the National Economy, Trade and Labour, underlining the correlation between good roads and economic development

The Patriarchal Exarch of Africa, Russian Metropolitan Konstantin of Zaraisk, consecrated the foundation stone of the first Orthodox church under construction in Zambia

Nearly 10 million people are estimated to be affected by an El Nino-induced drought, about half of the country's population

National power company Zesco has announced a series of scheduled eight-hour blackouts to ration electricity after the country is hit by a devastating drought due to a very poor rainy season