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MP FUMES OVER DELAYED CDF PROJECTS

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ELAYS to release funds for various approved Constituency Development Fund (CDF) projects has angered Mpika Central Member of Parliament (MP) Sylvia Chalikosa.

Ms Chalikosa expressed concern that some approved CDF projects had not taken off due to delay in releasing funds.

She said she was disheartening that funds that were allocated last year were still laying idle in the bank accounts when there were projects that need to be worked on.

"I am very worried that most

projects are not happening because of inertia by the procurement department at the Mpika district council to release funds or procure materials," Ms Chalikosa said.

Ms Chalikosa, who is also Works and Supply Minister, said most CDF projects that could have been completed by now had stalled.

She said had directed the local authority to expedite the procurement processes and ensure that funds were released.

"We are in hurry to ensure that projects that were approved for CDF funding are quickly worked on," Ms Chalikosa said.

The MP said there were

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many school, health among other projects that had been approved for funding using the 2019 CDF Ms Chalikosa said the funds were provided in the budget to benefit constituents and therefore the people responsible should expedite

the process.

The MP, who is on the routine visit, inspected developmental projects including construction of two health post, water project in Chilonga, construction of teachers’ houses at Mukonteka Primary School.

Easterners appreciate Bill 10 contents

By NATION REPORTER

IT is good that we have been enlightened on the progressive contents of Bill 10, and we shall support it, Eastern Province residents have said.

Several residents in the region welcomed the move to educate Zambians on the contents of Bill number 10 to avoid being misled by some selfish politicians.

This came to light when a team of Bill 10 advocates appeared on a radio programme at PASME Radio in Petauke when callers appreciated the sensitisation initiative.

One of the callers, James Phiri said there was need for advocates to explain the bill in detail to the people since others have had reservations.

"I have heard your explanation on Bill 10, and I feel there is nothing wrong with the bill

By CHINTU MALAMBO LUSAKA Businessman Capson Mwanza says the court should hear his claims against Lusaka District Commissioner Maximo Kankomba from whom he is demanding over K300, 000 compensation for a tipper truck.

He said Kankomba’s application to have the case dismissed for irregularity is misconceived and misleading.

In this matter Mr Mwanza has sued Mr Kankomba in the Lusaka High Court demanding payment of K380, 000 as damages for loss of business for causing his tipper truck to be forfeited when the DC defaulted to pay interest for a loan.

Earlier, in a his statement

especially that you have indicated that most of the critical issues were removed through the parliamentary select committee," he said.

Another caller thanked those that supported the changes in the preamble of the Constitution of strengthening the Zambia as a Christian nation clause.

And Chilufya Chishala who is a political activist supporting the bill explained that Zambians needed to listen to facts and not propaganda being engineered by enemies of progress.

He explained that Bill 10 when passed, would see large constituencies been delaminated to ease the flow of development.

Appearing on the same programme, Prince Ndoyi who is former Mulungushi Students union president, explained that the changes in

State acts to ease Kazungula congestion

By ANDREW MUKOMA

AUTHORITIES in Kazungula District have pleaded with Daewoo Construction and Engineering Company, the firm engaged to construct the Kazungula Bridge to allow trucks that were marooned on both sides of Kazungula and Kasane in Botswana to use the temporal bridge to ease congestion.

the Constitution through Bill 10 would allow young people and women including people with disabilities to be part of the governance structure through the proportional representation.

And in Nyimba the team held a door to door sensitisation drive in the market and homes.

Meanwhile, appearing on radio programme on Breeze FM in Chipata, Gerald Chiluba who is also an advocate of Bill Number 10 explained that the process of the bill was started by the opposition during the Presidential petition in which the opposition were unhappy with the 14 days court hearing time frame.

“In 2016, when others lost the elections they petitioned the courts and the challenge was interpreting the 14 days if it included weekends or not. But in this Bill 10, it is

proposing that the time frame should be 30 days and it explains clearly that those 30 days are purely 30 working days, Chiluba explained.

Chiluba who is also a former Copperbelt University student leader, said he was among people that were ignorant about Bill 10 and was a vehicle of propaganda and malice on several platforms.

And callers advised the team to continue explaining the contents of the bill in local language.

The team of Bill 10 activists who are former university union leaders are in Eastern Province on a sensitisation programme on the contents of bill 10 to young people and the general citizenry in the rural parts of Eastern Province.

Others on the team are include, Innocent Pengele who is former CBU secretary general.

‘Hear my compensation claim against DC’ of claim Mr Mwanza stated that Maximo on July 6 2019 in his company went to see a money lender who gave him conditions that he provides a collateral but Maximo had no property at the time, as he was only five months from his appointment as DC. Mwanza said he was engaged in the Transport Industry and had a Tipper truck which he used to supply sand and was making not less than K2,000 per day.

He contended that Mr Kankomba asked him if he could use the Tipper truck as collateral for him to borrow the sum of K80,000 which was supposed to be paid back

Two weeks ago, 800 trucks were stuck at Kazungula border while almost a similar number was in Kasane as drivers from both sides were not allowed to cross the river using the pantoons following the outbreak of COVID-19.

As a result, both countries were under pressure as the drivers were quarantined for a period 14 days. Kazungula District Commissioner Pascalina Musokotwane said

Chipata set for bumper harvest

within a month time, and being a family friend to Maximo, Mwanza agreed to the request that his Tipper Truck be used as collateral.

Mwanza said after a month, he reminded Mr Kankomba of the expiry date of the period in which to pay back the money lender so that he could get back his Tipper Truck, but Maximo told him to forget about the Tipper Truck as he was going to pay him the price value of the said truck which was at the time valued at the K110, 000 but now valued at K190, 000.

But in an Affidavit in support of summons to dismiss action on point of law Mr

Kankomba said the law suit

by Mwanza should be thrown out for being irregular.

He stated that Mr Mwanza was claiming liquidated damages in the sum of K380, 000 which was irregular and against the law.

“Claims for damages can never be claimed on a quantified basis in accordance with the law as this is the preserve of the Court on assessment in case of success.

This process initiated by the Plaintiff (Mwanza) is irregular as it offends the law and the relief seeking liquidated damages must be struck out from the pleadings for irregularity,” Maximo said.

during Southern Province Minister Edify Hamukale’s visit last week that authorities from the two countries had to request for the usage of the temporal bridge to allow movements of trucks from both sides. The request to use the temporal bridge came about after noticing that the only model of transport, the pontoons, were only managing to ferry few trucks in a day while the numbers from both sides was growing.

Ms Musokotwane said that

as a way of easing the movements of the truck drivers, especially those coming from high risk countries like South Africa, it was through a temporal bridge before they were quarantined.

She told the Daily Nation that after Daewoo agreed, the truck drivers started using the temporal bridge to reduce congestion and pressure. The DC said so far, and as a matter of urgency, truck drivers have been using the temporal bridge.

CHIPATA district in Eastern Province is expected to record a bumper Maize, Soya beans and Sunflower harvests because of the good rainfall and timely distribution of inputs by government, district agriculture coordinator Philimon Lungu has said.

In an interview in Chipata, Mr Lungu said the district was expecting a 10 to 15 percent production increase in the three crops. “ We had good rains compared to the previous season although we experienced a dry spell at the end of the season. Our crops have performed fairly well especially Maize, Soya beans and Sunflower. We expect a 10 to 15 percent increase in production,” he said.

He said the quick response from government when Armyworms invaded the district also contributed in saving the crops. “ We had Army worm invasion in the middle of the season but there was quick response from government, we were given enough pesticides to save the crops.

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The fertilizer distribution was done in time this season.

By mid of last December, we were done with the distribution,” he said.

Mr Lungu however said the district is expecting a low production of groundnuts because of the rosette virus disease that invaded the crop.

Asked on farmers response to diversification crops, Mr Lungu expressed delight saying more farming are shifting to Soya beans and Sunflower production because of the market demand. “ Farmers are responding well to diversification, I think the market forces are contributing to this shift.

More farmers are cultivating Soya beans, groundnuts and Sunflower because of the demand from companies who produce cooking oil,” he said He said the district agriculture office was encouraging farmers to go for conservation farming in the awake of climate change. “ We have been encouraging our farmers to use conservation methods which is better than the conventional method.

Because conservation able to serve moisture among other factors which enables a farmer to have a good harvest even during a dry season,” he explained.

Police bust illegal beer syndicate

By PETER MALASHA MKUSHI District Council in conjunction with police have confiscated alcoholic beverages from Itala compound.

Authorities bust the illegal beer syndicate as they were monitor compliance levels of the health guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

In an interview, council chairperson, Evans Bwalya, said assorted alcohol beverages were confiscated and warned would be offenders that the law would catch up with them.

Mr Bwalya said no liquor trader was allowed to open a bar or night club to sell beer during the period of the ban.

"We are going through the district to check if the people are complying. We are patrolling the bars to ensure that they are not selling beer," Mr Bwalya said.

The council chairman said there were some bar owners who were ferrying beer to their homes, which had been turned into shebeens.

M. Bwalya further warned those who had resorted to brewing local beer such as Kachasu to stop because it was

attracting illegal gathering.

He said not observing social distance were possible ways of spreading coronavirus and that residents must always be alert.

Meanwhile, Lavushimanda District Commissioner Yvonne Chisenga has bemoaned poor road network as a challenge during the sensitisation programme, especially in Chiundaponde area on Bangweulu wetlands.

Ms Chisenga said poor communication and lack of proper road network had hindered movements to the area.

The area, she said, was unreachable and there was no mobile phone network for proper communication.

"The district is a bit scattered, the other part of the district is in Bangweulu wetland in Chiundaponde. There is a challenge of the road even communication.

There are some areas where there is no network," Ms Chisenga said.

She however added that despite the challenge, sensitisation on COVID -19 had continued and people were living in conformity with the health guidelines.

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AFRICA FACES FOOD CRISIS - WB

Agricultural production would be potentially contracting between 2.6 percent and up seven percent if there were trade blockages.

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU

THE World Bank has warned that the ongoing globe spread of Coronavirus has the potential to spark a food security crisis in Africa, with agricultural production likely to decline.

According to the Bretton Woods institution, agricultural production would be potentially contracting between 2.6 percent and up seven percent if there were trade blockages.

In the “Africa’s Pulse report” the World Bank stated that food import would decline substantially to as much as 25 per cent or as little as 13 percent due to a combination of higher transaction costs and reduced domestic demand.

“Several African countries have reacted quickly and decisively to curbthe potential influx and spread of the coronavirus, very much in line with international guidelines,” the report indicated.

It however pointed out several factors that posed challenges to the containment and

mitigation measures, in particular the large and densely populated urban informal settlements, poor access to safe water and sanitation facilities, and fragile health systems.

“The magnitude of the impact will depend on the public’s reaction within respective countries, the spread of the disease, and the policy response,” the report said.

World Bank Chief Economist for Africa, Albert Zeufack, said in addition to containment measures on Covid-19, countries were opting for a combination of emergency fiscal and monetary policy actions with many Central Banks cutting interest rates and providing extraordinary liquidity assistance.

“However, it is important to ensure that fiscal policy builds in space for social protection interventions, especially targeting workers in the informal sector, and sows the seed for future resilience of our economies,” Dr Zeufack said.

World Bank lead economist and lead author of the report,

Covid-19: Botswana's president, all MPs quarantined

Mokgweetsi Masisi

By PETER DUBE

BOTSWANA'S President Mokgweetsi Masisi has been quarantined, along with his whole cabinet and the entire parliament, after a nurse who was testing legislators for coronavirus was later confirmed positive.

Botswana's House of Assembly was sent into panic on Thursday after revelations about the healthcare worker.

A Batswana legislator confirmed to this writer that all MPs will undergo 14 days of quarantine after they came into contact with the nurse on Wednesday.

Botswana Congress Party (BCP) leader Dumelang Saleshando on Thursday confirmed the development.

The country has 13 confirmed cases and one death so far.

Minister for Health Dr Lemogang Kwape in an update on Covid-19 confirmed that one of the seven new cases was "a health worker who was based at Block 8 clinic and yesterday was on duty at Parliament."

The news was revealed to all MPs during a debate on the country’s state of emer-

gency, which Mr Masisi has proposed extending to sixmonths.

Mr Saleshando had rejected President Masisi’s proposed extension.

Dr Malaki Tshipayagae, Director of Health Services, has recommended that everyone be quarantined.

"Everyone who was here (in parliament) has to undergo mandatory quarantine from here. They are all casual contacts. They're not going home," he said.

Dr Kwape has urged the nation to remain calm and to continue following directives from health officials.

He said health professionals will also advise Parliament on how they are to proceed, considering that some of the members interacted with the health worker. -The Coronavirus Tracker

Everyone who was here (in parliament) has to undergo mandatory quarantine from here. They are all casual contacts.

They’re not going home.

Cesar Calderon, emphasised the need for a customised policy response to reflect the structure of African economies. “The immediate measures are important but there is no doubt there will be need for

some sort of debt relief from bilateral creditors to secure the resources urgently needed to fight Covid-19 and to help manage or maintain macroeconomic stability in the region,” Dr Calderon said.

Zambia records 3 new Covid-19 cases

By SILUMESI MALUMO

ZAMBIA has recorded three new Covid-19 cases after tests conducted in the last 24 hours, Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya has announced.

Dr Chilufya said during a media briefing in Lusaka yesterday that the new patients who had tested positive were a 58-year-old man, a 13-year-old girl and a 41-year-old woman.

The Minister said that the 58-year-old man contracted the disease after being in contact with a patient who visited the high risky COVID-19 country.

He said that the 41-yearold woman and the 13-yearold girl got the virus after being in contact with a patient at University Teaching Hospital.

“From the tests which we conducted in the next 24 hours, three more new cases have been recorded. We conducted tests from 600 suspects and this is where the three cases tested positive.

“As we speak right now all the three patients who tested positive with COVID-19 are now in isolation centres.

So the cases have accumu-

Convid-19: time bomb

By OLIVER SAMBOKO and SILUMESI MALUMO

MOST Zambians are not taking the covid-19 pandemic seriously and have continued to ignore health guidelines such as social distancing and wearing of face masks.

A check by Daily Nation at some selected shopping malls in Lusaka found that all the chain stores dealing in food were in breach of coronavirus guidelines as workers were found serving ready to eat food to customers without putting on gloves and face masks.

And when contacted, Public Health Institute (ZNPHI) country director Professor Victor Mukonka warned chain stores selling ready to eat food to the public to adhere to strict COVID 19 prevention measures or risk being pounced on by Heath inspectors.

Dr Mukonka said a team of health workers was going to be dispatched to all shopping malls and other shopping centres to ensure that prevention guidelines put in place by Government were being followed.

He said it was wrong for any

public place to abrogate the guidelines that had been put in place to prevent the spread of COVID 19 in the country and that he was surprised that some chain stores had still did not provide gloves and masks as directed.

Only Shoprite was among chain stores providing masks, though Dr Mukonka advised that they provide the right ones. Dr Mukonka also revealed that he had engaged Shoprite management to immediately follow his advice and provide the correct masks to the workers.

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ers in Lusaka and Copperbelt have continued ignoring the Presidential directive of wearing face masks and social distancing in public places.

In Lusaka’s Soweto market, traders were mingling without regard to wearing masks of face cloth to cover their mouths and noses. In Kitwe, a Daily Nation team found Chisokone Market beaming with traders and shoppers with face masks, contrary to the warning from the District Commissioner.

Public buses in Lusaka and Copperbelt have continued loading passengers without

lated to 43 and two deaths,” Dr Chilufya said.

Dr Chilufya said two more patients had been discharged from the quarantine centres, bringing the number of patients discharged to 30. The minister said currently about 11 COVID-19 patients had remained in isolation centres, two on the Copperbelt while nine were in Lusaka Province. He said that all the 11 patients were stable while a 74-year-old was in serious condition.

Meanwhile Dr Chilufya said investigations had been intensified in Kafue district to conduct tests on people who had contact with a person, who died of COVID-19.

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...as traders ignore health guidelines regard to the reduction in passenger numbers as advised by local authorities. All intra city buses were being loaded to capacity.

A spot check at Soweto and Lusaka’s Central Business District found traders and vendors freely moving without fear of covid-19.

The marketeers have also ignored the social distancing which the Ministry of Health had emphasised on in order to prevent the spread of COVID 19.

On Thursday last week during the a national address on COVID 19 by the Head of State, directed every citizen to wear face masks in public places such as markets, bus stations and in buses as it was critical to stop the spread of the pandemic.

But it seems that the people especially the marketeers have not shown interest to adhere to the Presidential directive.

The businesses were going on as usual which could pose a serious risky to the spread of COVID 19.

In Kabwe, it was business as usual on the rail crossing as street vendors without masks tried to sell their ware to motorists.

Tribalism is a cankerworm - Mpombo SILUMESI MALUMO

TRIBALISM is deadly cankerworm of disharmony and deceit that can devour into the moral fabric of the country, former Defence Minister George Mpombo has said.

He said those who want to promote tribalism in the country must be treated with the contempt they deserved.

Dr Mpombo said in an in-

terview yesterday that it was unfortunate that some individuals could start promoting tribalism which was recipe for anarchy in the country.

The purported tribal populations being raised by some individuals must not be tolerated because it will bring chaos in the country, Dr Mpombo said.

He however said the tribal camps in Northern and Luapula Province being purport-

ed by Governance Activist, Sikaile Sikaile, were not even there but that the activist was merely spreading falsehoods.

The former minister said it was important that people concentrated on constructive issues that would benefit the national instead of spreading falsehoods.

Recently, Mr Sikaile was quoted in some section of the media as saying that some camps had emerged in North-

ern and Luapula Province of the PF pressuring President Edgar Lungu to hand over power.

He said that the camps want a Bemba to take over the reign of the ruling party because it was formed by a Bemba.

But Dr Mpombo such statements were very alarming and that people must desist from spreading falsehoods that could bring confusion.

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SAVE MOPANI! Glencore International, the major shareholder in Mopani Copper Mine, has certainly stirred up a hornet’s nest which requires an eagle’s eye to examine all salient points.

Clearly, Zambia feels that Glencore’s arbitrary decision to place Mufulira and Kitwe units under care and maintenance is a breach of trust.

The decision was so sudden that miners and other employees at Mopani were caught off guard and greeted by shut premises as they reported for duties last week.

Be as it may, Glencore has stood its ground, spurning Government’s advice to rescind the hasty decision when, under normal circumstances, partners are supposed to be on the same wave length.

Yes, Glencore International AG is the majority shareholder at 73.1 per cent with First Quantum Minerals Limited holding 16.9 stake while Government through ZCCM-IH has 10 per cent but there ought to be mutual respect.

A cursory look at history will unravel Glencore’s promise of heaven on earth.

Zambians, and captains of industry in particular, do recall that Glencore commissioned an ambitious $232 million synclinorium shaft at Mopani in Kitwe in May 2016.

Memories are still fresh that the international conglomerate made a firm undertaking that with the coming on stream of the synclinorium project, the mine’s lifespan was extended to between 25 and 30 years.

At the time, Glencore also flaunted $1.1 billion pledge for a number of projects aimed at transforming Mopani into a modern mining operation.

The investors did categorically state that come rain or sunshine, operations will remain on track, an assurance which has come to haunt the Switzerland headquartered firm.

That copper prices and the outbreak of coronavirus have precipitated the closure of the mine is far-fetched.

Mopani management must explain what has happened to the synclinorium shaft in Kitwe and the massive concentrator that was put up in Mufulira at great cost.

How much of the rich ore in Kitwe at the synclinorium has been mined and is the Mufulira concentrator operational?

Copper prices have not dipped to force any mining powerhouse to shut down as they are now around $4,963 per tonne on the London Metal Exchange – not too bad a price!

Even if it were not shipping the commodity, the mining firm could have been stockpiling and export after the situation in many countries normalises.

It appears though that investor has underlying woes as recently Glencore’s Katanga Mining sent 350 workers packing last week in the Democratic Republic of Congo after delaying the commissioning of an acid plant.

Yes, 350 Indian contractors from the mine site near Kolwezi to Lubumbashi were to be repatriated.

When Mopani was conceived in April 2000 in Zambia assets that were purchased from ZCCM included underground mines, a concentrator, a smelter and a refinery at Mufulira mine site.

In Kitwe it had underground mines, open pits, a concentrator and a cobalt plant at Nkana mine site but today the story is different.

Thus Glencore must fulfil all promises made at the time, lest Zambians conclude that that was mere hot air.

Therefore, it is not too late for Glencore to come to terms with the reality and state the truth other than proffering unconvincing reasons for the drastic decision.

The effects of such a decision will be too deep for the 11,000 miners, contractors and suppliers as well as the country’s economy.

He said Bembas had no problem voting for other tribes like they voted for Kaunda, Chiluba, Mwanawasa, Rupia Banda and Sata. He said Bembas were content to vote for others, though not a bad thing but they should also push for development.

He also spoke against Bembas who join or form political parties just to insult their tribe because of the money they were being given.

He emphasised that Bembas must use their majority to vote for the right people to develop their area.

Chief Chitimukulu said the Bembas lacked a strong voice to speak to ensure development was brought to the region.

“There is no leadership among Bembas. People just joining or making parties to insult Bembas. Because of money, you disrespect your tribe,” he said.

“Bembas are not doing much. There is no development here. Unless we go and do it ourselves,” he added.

He also alluded to government being fearful to give chiefs money for development because some of them may spend it on beer. “Can they

YOU’LL CRY give us money when they fear that you will just go and drink the money,” Chitimukulu said.

He also complained that during the MMD rule, money which was supposed to work on Chinsali road went to Luwingu road, because there was no one showing leadership among Bembas to speak against such things.

Paramount Chief Chitimukulu He warned against apathy in Muchinga, Northern and Luapula, saying the Southern province did better than the three provinces because they know what they are doing.

LAZ ruled off side

By CHINTU MALAMBO and SILUMESI MALUMO

THE Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) Council’s mandate is over and immediate past members must vacate office immediately and stop misleading the nation with misguided partisan statements, Lusaka lawyer Tutwa Ngulube has charged.

Mr. Ngulube says currently LAZ has no Council as the mandate of the immediate past one expired on April 2, 2020 when the association was scheduled to elect new office bearers at the annual general meeting which has been deferred due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

In a statement, Mr. Ngulube, who is also Parliamentary Deputy Chief Whip, said therefore, former LAZ president Eddie Mwitwa has no powers to issue media statements on behalf of the association.

He said the association’s general membership had not extended the said mandate and as such it was illegal and misleading for some people to masquerade as Council members.

The Kabwe Central member of Parliament said Mr. Mwitwa’s statement on the closure of Prime Television station by the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was illegal and that LAZ members will not accept any illegality.

“I challenge Eddie Mwitwa to tell us which section of the LAZ Act gives him a fresh mandate to give a statement on media houses that have their own personal relationship with government.

“It is professional misconduct for Mr Mwitwa and Ms. Mutumu Nzala-Mwape, who is vying for the position of LAZ president, to masquerade as Council members because the association currently has no Council,” Mr. Ngulube said.

He said in as much as LAZ has no power to evaluate merits of the IBA’s decision; those speaking on the association’s behalf should desist from using its name.

And former United Party for National Development

presidential advisor Edward Mumbi said Mr Mwitwa was offside to issue a statement Prime TV closure.

Mr. Mumbi said Mr. Mwitwa’s statement was mischievous and must be treated with the contempt it deserved.

He said in a separate interview yesterday that Mr. Mwitwa cannot condemn government because it had investigated before closing Prime TV. Mr. Mumbi said it was obvious that government agencies consulted the Attorney General for them to arrive at that decision.

He challenged Mr Mwitwa to seek legal redress if he was not happy as opposed to issuing disparaging statements.

On April 9 this year, IBA cancelled Prime Television’s practice license in public interest.

The IBA is responsible for regulating the broadcasting industry in Zambia by ensuring promotion of a pluralistic and diverse broadcasting industry. Its functions include among others, granting, renewing, suspending and cancelling radio and television broadcast licences.

It was established through an Act of Parliament Number 17 of 2002, which was amended through the IBA (Amendment) Act Number 26 of 2010 and became operational in July 2013.

It is also mandated to set standards to be followed by radio and television stations as well as monitor licensees to ensure they are compliant.

To achieve this, the Authority has set up an Inspectorate as well as a Consumer Affairs unit that will receive all complaints that the public may have concerning radio and television stations or content that the stations churn out.

The IBA is overseen by a Board consisting of nine nonexecutive members and all the board’s decisions are executed by the Director General; who is supported by an executive team with expertise in law and enforcement, economics, technical and engineering, information technology, journalism, and finance.

“Us we are not serious.

150,000 register to vote and only 50,000 vote,” he said.

Southerners know what they are doing but Bembas are too nonchalant and just want to be led and don’t mind voting for other tribes.

Chitimukulu said this was dangerous because they might end up with a difficult leader and they would be in trouble.

“Bembas do not like voting because they don’t know that is the most important.

They are 21 percent and must determine the leader of this country. Bembas are not segregative and just vote for anyone. Anyone can lead as long as they have rights,” he said.

But the Paramount chief Chitumukulu has come under fire for encouraging the Bembas to vote massively in 2021.

Republican Progressive party (RPP) leader James Lukuku has accused the traditional leader of being a puppet for the ruling party because he was being paid handsomely.

He said it was irresponsible for Chitumukulu to publish

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sectarianism, regionalism and tribalism statement.

Meanwhile, Zambia’s former envoy to Malawi, Richard Kachingwe has said it was irresponsible and disrespect for people to issue disparaging statement against Paramount chief Chitimukulu Mwinelubemba Major Kachingwe said there was nothing tribal which the traditional leader said but was giving advice to the Bemba clan. He said in a separate interview yesterday that people must learn to respect their traditional leaders at all cost.

Maj Kachingwe said that it was shocking that people could throw away the Zambians tradition and resorted to disrespect their leaders.

Maj Kachingwe who is also former MMD national chairperson said there was nothing wrong for the traditional leader to show allegiance to the ruling party.

Every traditional leader must work hand in hand with the government of the day for the betterment of the subjects.

“There is no wrong whatsoever for the Paramount chief to respect those who are in authority, if he is against the government of the day he is risking his subjects,” Maj Kachingwe said.

UZI Zambia still fails to launch ops

By SILUMESI MALUMO

NO progress has been made so far by Uzi Zambia to launch operations in the country, Minister of Transport and Communications Mutotwa Kafwaya has said.

Mr Kafwaya said the fourth mobile service provider had not shown any progress to start operating in the country.

He said in an interview yesterday, since Government extended the operation licence which expired in November last year, the four mobile service provider was still moving at a low pace to start the operations.

Mr Kafwaya said the operation licence was expected to expire next month and if nothing would be done to start operations then Government would take action.

The six months extension of the operation licence which was given to the fourth mobile service provider will expire next month.

“From what I hear the progress remains as it was when we renewed their licence, this information is coming from the people Uzi Zambia is working with.

“So from the look of things nothing reasonable is being done to ensure the fourth mobile service provider starts operating in the country.

“As you are aware, we gave them a six months extension and we categorically said the licence will not be renewed if they do not start operating,” he stated.

He said the nation would be informed on the decision Government would take once the licence expires next month.

Don’t misread Pope’s call on COVID-19

By CHARLES MUSONDA

POPE Francis’ call on Christians not to yield to fear of COVID-19 does not mean that they should not follow professional safeguards against the virus, a local senior clergyman says.

In an interview in Lusaka yesterday, Bible Gospel Church in Africa (BIGOCA) Archbishop Peter Ndhlovu said the Pope’s message, in his homily at Easter vigil, meant that Christians must face the COVID-19 global crisis with faith, knowing that it can be overcome.

He said this is the time that people must acknowledge God’s existence because doctors, profession-

als, and scientists have failed to contain COVID-19.

Archbishop Ndhlovu said Christians must not stay idle but continue to pray, and attributed Zambia’s low COVID-19 statistics to prayer.

Archbishop Ndhlovu it is important that as health professionals are giving the public knowledge on the COVID-19, people need to follow them to the latter because cleanliness is Godly and no one can dispute that. He commended Government for putting in place COVID-19 spread control measures and the tireless work that President Lungu and Minister of Health Dr. Chitalu Chilufya are doing to update the nation on the crisis.

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EXPEDITE MAKING MARIJUANA MONEY SPINNER Mr Sinkamba observed that the agriculture sector was also likely not to contribute much because more crops had been destroyed by droughts.

By AARON CHIYANZO

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OVERNMENT should intensify the actualisation of making marijuana a money spinner for the country now that the mining industry is staggering and not contributing meaningfully to state coffers in the wake of the Corona virus, Green Party president Peter Sinkamba has said.

Mr Sinkamba observed that the agriculture sector was also likely not to contribute much because more crops had been destroyed by droughts.

He said in an interview that in as much as it was prudent to focus all energies in fighting the deadly coronavirus, a recovery plan should start being hatched slowly.

Mr Sinkamba said with the mining sector not performing well, marijuana was the best option to help the country recuperate faster once the war against

the coronavirus was over.

He said industrial marijuana was still very profitable and could earn the country fortunes to help it recover quicker from the economic shocks that would be incurred as a result of Covid-19.

Mr Sinkamba advised Government to intensify the actualisation of making marijuana a money spinner for the country.

“Yes all energies now must be focused on mitigating the spread of the coronavirus but slowly we have to prepare a recovery plan.

Now looking at the way the mining sector, which is the number one contributor to our national coffers is performing and in agriculture most crops having been destroyed by the floods, industrial marijuana remains our best option to recuperate of economy,” he said.

Mr Sinkamba said he had engaged the Ministry of Health and the Drug Enforcement Commission over implementation of the

marijuana strategy but that very little progress had been done.

Cabinet last year gave approved in principle through the the ministerial technical committee the cultivation, processing and exporting of cannabis for economic and medicinal purposes.

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Mitete heightens Covid-19 sensitisation

By OLIVER SAMBOKO

COVID-19 sensitization has been heightened in Mitete western Province, following President Edgar Lungu’s extension of restrictions on movements and closure of bars last week.

The restrictions which include the closure of Bars, Casinos and Gyms among others are aimed at mitigating the spread of coronavirus in the country. Mitete district commissioner, Nayunda Mukwamataba who undertook several prevention sensitization tours in the area thanked the President for the good measures put in place to ensure the people remain save from the deadly disease.

Mr Mukwamataba who was accompanied on his tour by

his district Council secretary Mr Mainga Sifaya, district Health Dirrector Dr Mundemba and other heads of Government departments, urged the people in the district to continue adhering to all guidelines put in place by Health Authorities if the country was to defeat the spread of Covid-19 He told the people that the closure of bars, night clubs, schools and ban on social gathering was not meant to punish them but to lessen their risk of contracting Covid-19.

Mr Mukwamataba emphasized the need for the community to continue following preventive measures like washing hands, avoiding handshaking and social gathering if the district

was to be spared from coronavirus. And District Health director Dr Mundemba who took time to explain the symptoms of covid-19 encouraged the people in the area to visit health facilities whenever they experienced sneezing, coughing or difficult in breathing. During the tour, the district commissioner and his team also distributed buckets, washing soap and hand sanitizers to markets.

Mitete DC, Nayunda Mukwamataba

‘Employ locals on Luwingu Road project’

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PF has heart for Zambians, says Chieftainess Chungu

By SILUMESI MALUMO

THE ruling Patriotic Front (PF) leadership has a heart for the Zambians, no one is being left behind, Chieftainess Chungu of Lupososhi district has said.

The traditional leader said yesterday that the ruling party was working tirelessly to improve the wellbeing of all Zambians.

"The PF Government does not promise lies. We asked for a district and they gave us. We asked for telecommunications towers and they gave us. We asked for electricity and they have put up cables. We are just waiting for them to switch on electricity,” “We know and trust that even our roads which have become deplorable will be worked on. We know the PF government cares about us.

“Zambia is very vast and all people from various corners of the country want development. Things do not come all at once.

Things cannot be done at once,” she said.

Meanwhile the traditional leader said she working tirelessly with village headmen and village commit-

tees to sensitise people on measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

In my chiefdom we are trying our level best to warn our people against this deadly disease, chieftainess Chungu said.

“We are encouraging our people to be washing hands regularly and keep themselves and their surroundings clean. And visitors who are coming from

We are encouraging our people to be washing hands regularly and keep themselves and their surroundings clean.

And visitors who are coming from outside my chiefdom we are telling them not to be moving aimlessly around our villages. outside my chiefdom we are telling them not to be moving aimlessly around our villages.

I and my subjects we are very much ready to help government in fighting against this deadly disease,” she said.

CHINA Geo Corporation must employ local people as they work on the Luwingu-Lupososhi- Chaba Road, Northern Province Minister, Chungu Bwalya has demanded.

Mr Bwalya who is also Member of Parliament (MP) for Lupososhi Constituency said the Chinese construction company was free to employ experts from elsewhere but general workers must be employed from within local community.

According to PF Northern Province youth secretary, Chanda Nsofu, Mr Bwalya

said this on Thursday when he visited the China Geo Corporation construction camp in Luwingu district.

Mr Bwalya urged China Geo Corporation human resource manager Richard Mwansa to employ people from Luwingu, Lupososhi and Chilubi Districts where the road is passing.

He further advised the China Geo Corporation project site management to create a good working relationship with local leaders such as headmen, chiefs, councillors, council chairpersons, district commissioners and MPs for their work to go on smoothly.

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ter urged the construction company to expedite work as the rain season was coming to an end, by quickly mobilising all the necessary construction equipment and go full swing in constructing the road.

Mr Bwalya said President Edgar Lungu was very much interested to see the roads being done as soon as possible because a lot of developmental projects depended on the completion of the road.

Meanwhile, China Geo Corporation project site manager, Wang Chao said the Corporation was very much committed to the construction of the road and

that they had just expanded the camp site to accommodate more equipment.

Mr Chao said they would take on board the advice of Mr Bwalya, but appealed to the government to be releasing funding on road construction on time for them to complete the project within the stipulated time.

The Provincial Minister was accompanied by Lubansenshi MP, George Mwamba, Lupososhi DC Mambwe Katontoka, Lupososhi DAO Idah Mulima, PF Provincial vice Secretary Remmy Kabali and other senior government officials.

Persistent rains setback Maintain Govt to mitigation measures buildings Chalikosa

By PETER SICHALI

EFFORTS being put in place to mitigate the effects of floods in Luapula Province are being negated by continued rains, Luapula Province Minister Nickson Chilangwa has said.

Mr Chilangwa said the province has continued to experience heavy rains making it difficult for government to assess the impact.

He said government still had a long way to go to mitigate the devastating effects of floods on the communities.

Mr Chilangwa cited Lunga, Chembe, Samfya, Milenge and Mwese.

He said Chifunabuli ,Babala and Islands had also been badly affected.

"The situation is still very bad here in Luapula Province be-

cause we have continued to experience heavy rains. Last night it rained throughout untill this morning," MrChilangwa said.

Mr Chilangwa said 75 percent of Chifunabuli Island has been submerged.

He said government has continued to mobilise relief efforts to help the victims of floods.

Mr Chilangwa said it had been difficult to ascertain the number of the affected household as some areas are inaccessible.

"It has been difficult to ascertain the number of affected families and households because rains have continued and some areas are completely flooded and cannot be accessed by road," Mr Chilangwa said.

Mr Chilangwa urged the affected families to remain calm as government was doing everything possible to ensure aid was provided to the victims.

By PETER SICHALI

GOVERNMENT institutions and departments should ensure that they maintain their buildings properly, Works and Supply Minister Sylvia Chalikosa has said.

Ms Chalikosa expressed concern with the state of most Infrastructure in Mpika and urged institutions to take responsibility.

The Minister said there need for building inspectors to ensure that Government infrastructure was prop-

erly maintained and repaired for them to stand the test of time.

"The same way we maintain our houses that is the same way we should be maintaining Government buildings," Ms Chalikosa said.

She said she was disappointing that most Government buildings were in a bad state due to lack of proper maintenance and care.

And the Minister has urged building inspectors to take keen interest in Constituency Development Fund (CDF) projects.

She said buildings inspectors should ensure that the buildings funded through CDF met the required standards.

Ms Chalikosa said Government was spending huge sums of money on maintenance ad also on CDF projects.

‘Split Mopani assets to two investors’

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‘FARMERS ABLE TO MEET LOCAL DEMAND’

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AMBIAN farmers have been able to satisfy the market with potatoes and other fresh farm produce, an indication that local producers have available capacity to meet the demand, says founder BuyZed campaign, Evans Ng'oma.

Mr Ng’oma said in an interview that Zambians lately had been able to satisfy the market with potatoes and other fresh farm produce such as cassava.

This, he said, must be maintained as Zambia looked to diversifying into other cash crops that earned the country money through exports while uplifting socio-economic profile.

“As BuyZed we are constant

in advocating for the growth of farmers through capacitating and guaranteeing market as well as diversifying into cash crops,” Mr Ng’oma said.

Mr Ng’oma said the economic lockdowns had broadened its belief that local was a long term home grown solution.

He emphasised the need to delvemore into value addition for the country to convert the abundant raw materials into semi-finished and finished goods fit for human consumption and use.

Mr Ng’oma said it was unfortunate that the country was seeing the opportunities now due to the Covid-19 crisis.

“As a country let us think of home grown solutions and buying Zed in our view is at heart of them. Let us keep

Mr Ng’oma producing to feed our nation but more importantly let us

add value locally to satisfy local and regional markets,” he said.

Mr Ng’oma observed that the country had for long relied on copper which suppressed the income once the prices reduced.

Zambia, he said, should learn from South Africa that despite lock down, was still earning through exports because of value addition.

“Imagine using our maize, we were able to value add and make cornflakes? What would be the economic advantages that accrue from the process?

“What we are mostly importing are processed products and buying Zed among other things is that process of making a processed product and value adding it,” Mr Ng’oma.

GOVERNMENT should find two different investors to take over Mopani Copper Mine units in Mufulira and Kitwe, miners have proposed.

Glencore, the major shareholders in Mopani, has placed the mine under care and maintenance despite Government insisting that the move was illegal.

The miners said giving two units to one investor could be devastating to the country’s economy and to the miners, if an investor holding the licence for both units decided to pull out.

If the one of the two investors decided to leave, they observed, the number of miners to be affected and the impact on the economy would not be as much.

Stanslous Mukupa, an operator at South ore body shaft, said the Mopani saga was a learning point for Government to split units in future privatisation.

He said, therefore, that Government must repossess the units from Glencore now and hand them to two credible investors.

"From whatever has happened, there is a lesson to learn and as miners we think from this development, Government should

learn a lesson of not giving two units to one investor,” Mr Mukupa said.

Another miner, Trevor Chisenga, said Mopani management had been sweet talking miners and Zambians in general into believing that it was contributing to the country’s development, but the actions were opposite and ill conceived.

He said Mopani management had drilled a synclinorium shaft and invited President Edgar Lungu to commission it with the promise that it would last for 25 years, but suddenly changed the stance.

It was for this reason, he said, that Government should repossess the assets and give them to two different investors such that when one operator decided to relocate, the other one would still be mining.

Mr Chisenga said Mopani did not mean well for Zambians and should go and leave miners in peace.

"But before they can go, they should give us, our money. Glencore has not been a good investor. It has always been problematic from as far as 2015 "Other mining companies are working with Government to fight covid-19, but they want to use covid-19 to leave Zambia, what kind of an investor is Glencore?" Mr Chisenga wondered.

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S the world grapples with Covid-19 effects, markets continue to shave asset valuation causing a plummet in demand for riskier assets that has fuelled a sharp uptick in haven assets such as U.S treasuries and gold. Key economies like United States and China are set to slide into recession as they suffer business disruption in factory activity and supply chains.

Demand for commodities such as copper and crude have significantly ebbed lower causing fiscal balancing concerns for ‘Dutch diseased’ nations. Copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) slid to lows of $4,343 per metric ton in March and has reversed some of the losses to trade at $5,010 a metric ton after starting the year at $6,150 levels.

Emerging Market Currency Rout has not spared the Kwacha Asset sell-off pressure and disinvestment risks across emerging and frontier markets has sucked purchasing power from currencies as the dollar environment tightens.

The dollar index against a basket of 6 major currencies – DXY- is at highs of 101.2 as green back scarcity grips the world. Pressure on the Kwacha with the Bank of Zambia’s lean reserve levels has exposed the copper currency’s vulnerabilities to external shocks given its anaemic import cover of 1.8 months.

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Is COVID19, ‘Copper and Kwacha’ bears pointing Zambia to the IMF Covid-19, the Fiscals and Dollar Debt Covid-19 associated effects on the business ecosystem has added a layer of additional pressure on the Zambian fiscals. As a black swan event, it was never planned for neither did the world see it come.

As expected, it has triggered spending through reorganisation of budget lines which for the next weeks will be utilised following the Republican Presidents extension of Zambia’s partial lockdown. Zambia’s cases are 40 with an additional case whose infection was only discovered following autopsy of a mysterious death. Various interventions to include monetary stimulus by the central bank to provide liquidity to absorb shock that the disease pandemic has caused have been announced. The central bank has further relaxed provisioning and capital rules to allow banks take credit risks comfortably.

In the midst of Covid-19, other risks to growth such as energy bottlenecks, currency depreciation and high

LME Copper price graph extracted from Bloomberg. fuel prices continue to weigh growth momentum which cost Zambia a further downgrade on its CCC credit rating outlook to negative from stable, by Moody’s last week.

Debt service with a weak Kwacha is burdensome for the treasury let alone debt to gross domestic product computation escalates to highs that has pointed Zambia and other African nations to multilaterals for debt reorganisation, relief or potential cancellation.

Zambia’s Ministry of Finance approached the Wash-

ington based lender the International Monetary Fund with a Request for Proposal (RFP) and commenced debt reorganisation discussions which priced into the dollar bond market causing a widening of spreads that pushed yields on its 2022’s to 62% as its 2027’s rose to 41%.

Will Zambia go for an IMF package?

The copper producer has for close to 3-years grappled with closing a bailout deal with the

Washington based lender the International Monetary Fund that has had investors on the edge with a weariness that exacerbated asset sell-off pressure a few years back.

Credit default spreads on Zambia’s dollar bonds for maturity in 2022 and 2027 blew out to a record 6,727bps and 3,982bps (above 10yr US treasuries) from 1,975bps and 1,538bps at start of year respectively. The 2022’s, 2024’s and 2027’s are the worst emerging market dollar bonds after Angola’s and Gabon’s 2023 and 2025’s that have similar blown out on suppressed crude prices.

With ballooning external debt of $11.23billion, weak reserves of $1.4billion, rising inflation at 14% and elevated yields on government securities fuelling repricing risks causing interest rate spirals Zambia’s growth environment remains suppressed. Private sector pulse has been in contraction for a year as measured by Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) as lack of liquidity, currency and energy risks continue to weigh. Debt

service burden in a currency weakening environment is set to lean the nations production possibilities. The red metal producer is set to have a tougher year than 2019 whose economic deterioration could be pointing it to the IMF for bailout. Zambia’s $750million falls due in 2022 but deteriorating credit risks make chances of refinance very thin given a ‘CCC’ rating on its long-term issuer rating assessment. Engagements with the Washington based lender have continued as African nations seek relief for Covid-19 pandemic purposes. Rwanda and Senegal have successfully been allocated funding for relief. Whether Zambia will access IMF funding whether for Covid-19 relief or an outright bailout package is what the market waits to see. Otherwise Covid-19 effects, Dr. Copper and Kwacha bears are pointing towards the need for robust agile and sustainable intervention.

Mutisunge Zulu is currently the National Secretary of the Economics Association Zambia.

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Suspended entities hurt Zim dollar, says RBZ HARARE – The two financial institutions whose operating licences have been suspended by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) over alleged illegal foreign currency dealings, were reportedly behind the sudden and drastic fall of the Zimbabwe dollar exchange rate in the last few days.

After the Zimbabwe dollar exchange rate against the United States dollar appeared to steadily strengthen since the 21-day lockdown started over a week ago, particularly on the parallel market, the exchange rate suddenly started rising again, inexplicably, over the last few days.

The RBZ had fixed the rate at 25 to the greenback just before President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced the lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19, as part of broad measures to ensure certainty of pricing, make transacting easier and minimise the deadly impact of the pandemic.

Reserve Bank officials noted the suspicious rate movement lately and traced

it to illegal forex buying

by Cash Twenty-Four and Crediconnect, which are licensed bureau de change and credit only microfinance entities, respectively, prompting authorities to suspend their licences.

“The suspension of the institutions’ operating licences is with immediate effect, pending further investigations.

If found guilty, the institutions will be liable to further regulatory action, which could result in cancellation of licence and / or criminal prosecution,” RBZ Governor Dr John Mangudya said in a statement.

He said the bank was in possession of information showing that the two institutions have been engaging in illicit foreign currency transactions, which have been adversely affecting the economy.

As such, highly placed central bank sources further confirmed that the bank had proved that the two financial institutions were behind a hard currency buying spree that has been pushing the exchange rate up of late, possibly explaining the recent dramatic increase in the prices of basic goods.

The bank has also reportedly managed to identify registered entities on whose behalf the two financial institutions were buying the foreign currency in a manner that had serious negative impact on the domestic currency. – THE HERALD, Zimbabwe.

US jobs bleed a warning to SA - analyst JOHANNESBURG - Body blows to the USA economy – which has seen unemployment claims increase by some 17 million in the past three weeks – come as a warning to South Africa, according to an analyst.

Former Goldman Sachs head, and now Yale Senior Fellow Colin Coleman told Fin24 the possibility of 1.5 million job losses locally, or some 10 percent of the roughly 16-million strong workforce, is not unimaginable.

South Africa is also battling record unemployment levels at 29 percent.

Another 6.6 million Americans submitted claims for unemployment benefits in the week ending April 4, the US Department of Labour reported.

This was over and above the record number of jobless claims submitted the previous week – 6.6 million claims, later revised upwards by some 219, 000 to over 6.8 million, Fin24 reported.

The previous week's average was revised up by over 54, 000 to 2.67 million.

Before the current wave of unemployment, the previous high was in May 2009, when claims also came in at just over 6.6 million. The US labour force reached a high of 165.6 million people in February this year, meaning the unemployment claims in just three weeks amount to over 10 percent of that number, Fin24 reported.

Coleman says the severe toll on the USA economy is a warning shot to South Africa.

"There are different dynamics between the world’s biggest economy and South Africa’s. We come from a high base of unemployment, but we don’t have the fiscal firepower to protect our economy the way that the USA has," Coleman told Fin24.

Economic mitigation strategies in the USA include interventions like the $2 trillion monetary stimulus announced on Thursday by the Fed and a $2.2 trillion fiscal package passed by US legislators. – FIN24.

DEBT FREEZE …WB economist says debt freeze may be needed to give Africa a fighting chance

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OHANNESBURG - Africa’s creditors may have to consider freezing debt to allow countries on the continent access to billions of dollars in funding they will need to fight the Covid-19 pandemic that has seen the global economy grind to a halt.

While the pandemic has not spread as fast on the continent as it has in Europe, Africa’s relative lack of infrastructure and debt leaves it at a unique disadvantage against the virus.

So far, there have been just over 1.6 million cases globally with over 1, 000 deaths – as of Saturday – with the US leading the way with 435, 167 cases.

African governments "… do not have much wiggle room in deploying much-needed fiscal policy to respond, particularly because of the debt

NAIROBI - About eight in 10 Kenyans believe that working from home is ineffective, a survey conducted by Consumer Insight Africa has revealed, even as employers increasingly ask their staff to work from home in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, which has drastically changed the way business is conducted.

The poll released Thursday shows that 81 percent of Kenyan workers interviewed are of the view that working from home is unproductive.

Only a meagre two percent felt productive working from home while three percent of the 1, 083 respondents said their productivity had remained the

situation, where many countries are spending as much as 70 percent of their budgets to pay salaries and service debt," chief economist for the Africa region at the World Bank, Albert Zeufack, said.

His remarks coincided with the release of the World Bank Group Africa’s Pulse report, which warned that the continent would fall into a recession for the first time in

25 years.

A microcosm of the debt challenge facing sub-Saharan Africa is that its second-biggest economy, South Africa, has seen its borrowing levels increase beyond the recommended mark for emerging market countries. National Treasury warned last year that debt was set to top 70 percent of its total GDP by 2023.

Zeufack said if Africa’s various creditors collectively decided to institute a moratorium on the debt that the continent owed, this could free up $44 billion to respond to Covid-19. "…This may have to come in the form of a debt freeze.

The world and lenders to Africa must enact a pause on debt service." "This is a global crisis, and the response must be global. Individual responses in Africa might be important but they may not be enough. A response at the African Union level may be more useful than an individual response," he said.

In the short-term and looking beyond the coronavirus pandemic, Zeufack said African economies could strengthen regional value chains and take advantage of African free-trade conventions that have been on the table for years. – FIN24.

81pc of Kenyans working from home unproductive - Poll same. The survey was conducted between March 28 and 31.

This looks set to hurt the overall productivity of companies at a time when over 50 percent of staff in many firms are working from home to reduce the probability of spreading the virus which at the time of the survey had infected 184 people and killed seven in Kenya. Another 13 had been reported as having fully recovered.

The findings also upend the ongoing thinking that working from home not only benefits employees by eliminating their daily commutes, but also

increases productivity and leads to healthier lifestyles.

It is viewed as a win-win situation that both workers and employers welcome on account of its flexibility and for its potential to improve worklife balance for employees.

“For 81 percent of office goers, working at home was ineffective with a skew to females and those in business,” says the Consumer Insights Africa poll released on Thursday.

About 85 percent of the female workers said they were unproductive while working remotely compared to males at 80 percent.

Self-employed workers offered a worse verdict on working from home with 85 percent saying they were unproductive compared 79 percent for those in employment.

Kenya has suspended international passenger travel, closed schools indefinitely, closed bars and golf clubs and imposed a daily dusk-to-dawn curfew as well as banning public gatherings to curb the spread of the virus that has infected over 1.6 million people globally, killing close to 90, 000. Another 34, 000 have recovered. – DAILY NATION, Kenya.

Russia, China willing to fund nuclear projects as several African countries explore controversial power source JOHANNESBURG - Faced with power shortfalls, demands for greener energy and drought threats to hydropower, a growing number of African countries are considering a shift to an unexpected power source – nuclear energy.

South Africa has the continent’s only commercial nuclear power plant. But according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a third of the 30 countries

around the world considering adopting nuclear power are in Africa.

Ghana, Kenya, Egypt, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan have engaged with the IAEA to assess their readiness for a nuclear programme.

Algeria, Tunisia, Uganda and Zambia are mulling the possibility, according to the agency.

Altogether, at least seven sub-Saharan African countries have signed agreements

to explore nuclear power with the backing of Russia, according to public announcements and the World Nuclear Association, an industry body.

“Africa is embracing nuclear science in general,” said Colin Namalambo, a commissioner of the African Commission on Nuclear Energy (ACNE), in an interview with the Thomson Reuters Foundation during a recent meeting in Accra on nuclear power opportunities.

That growing interest comes despite evidence that solar power and wind energy might be a cheaper and greener way to expand electricity production in Africa, where one person in three still lacks access, most of them in rural areas.

In southern Africa, the push to consider nuclear power is being driven in part by the drying of hydroelectric dams as a result of the climate crisis. – REUTERS.

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H Social Media MILES SAMPA My response to a Mr Lwendo Clive Mumba that asked why we are arresting those found drinking in cars and leaving bus drivers over loading.

My response “Pointing at another one breaking the law does not make own crime legal. Such drivers will be arrested aswell.

Those who want to drink in cars if I was them I would drive to a park or side road and stop there to enjoy my beer with my company, colleague or colleagues....

COMMENTS Vin Cent: That doesn't make sense still. The bar is at the roadside Miles Sampa: Vin Cent kindly take note, bars are not allowed to open for whatever reason during this corona pandemic period. Any open bar is illegally doing so.

Chibwe Mutale Chishala: Vin Cent stop justifying a wrong Vin Cent I mean arresting someone drinking outside the bar.

Those people are right because they know that bars operate illegally that's why they buy from wherever and drink. U can't assume they bought from the bar. What if they bought in shoprite and drunk by the roadside which happens to be near the bar?

Mwata Mpasela Miki: Vin Cent mudala prevention is better than cure. Just follow the rules and regulations Sir and you will lose nothing Ellison Banda: Vin Cent they can drink from there home's Ellison Banda Mwata Mpasela Miki very true Derrick Siame: Your worship. Is this right? This isn't a bar, it's a convenient store. People buy and park and have a drink but cops come and bit them up. There is a lot of ambiguity in the way those rule (not a law) is being effected. You have your own rules, Hon Lusambo has his and the Police are just doing as they please. Can thing be harmonised please. I know you to be a reasonable and intelligent man, well unlike the other two mentioned. Have a meeting with them both and discuss the way forward.

If drinking away from home is wrong, let that be decided and communicated.

Physically and mentally abusing people usually backfires.

Because people can fight back when they get fade up. That wont be nice will it?

Abel Derrick Siame: Well as far as i know total filling station is not a designated place for drinking. People were just supposed to buy and go home and drink from there not to start drinking from the filling station that is a public place and can easily spread corona. Buy and go is what is to be done and not turn the filling station into a drinking place.

Derrick Siame Abel: He mentions car parks away from bars?

Is there any car park that is designated for drinking? Would love to know about it. If you read my write up well, you will realise that am advocating for clarity. So that not every person can decide what is right as and when it suits them. …

Alfred Chirwa: Any bar under normal circumstances, people can drink from their. The problem here is that you what to drink in front of a liquor store or supermarkets.

Derrick Siame: Alfred Chirwa nope! What I want is for authorities to clarify. What is right and what is not. It's simple, just tell people to drink from their homes. So that anyone found having alcohol outside should be arrested. Nothing complicated about that Regina Kabwe: And ts funny how each city ,police and leaders using diffrent rules concerning the same..ati buy from the bar and go and drink from home. Others ati buy and drink parked somewhere. Others ati dont open bars..pa last katwishi Chanda Alfred: Guys mutina inshi kumayanda kanshi aiii???

Regina Kabwe Chanda Alfred...Teifyo bro lol...we just want them to put one rule ..everywere for everyone..and see what next..and kwatu kubaba ...das y Chanda Alfred: Regina Kabwe so ninshi ishupile apa pene my sister aii

ow does the cancellation of the Prime TV’s licence for its rogue and irresponsible reporting have to do with the 2021 general elections?

How does IBA’s independence and professionalism, an independent organization just like LAZ come under fire by LAZ? Is LAZ’s accusation of IBA a reflection of what they stand for?* The importance of media freedom cannot be overstressed, but each one of us must understand and accept that media freedom comes with great responsibility to report the news accurately, fairly and responsibly.

LAZ needs to understand that the PF government allows and accepts, just like any other democratic government worldwide that dissent is always welcome but not advocacy of disintegration, for democracy can thrive only when all shades of opinion are expressed freely.* Any attempt to stifle or shut out contrarian viewpoints will stunt intellectual development in the same way that cooked propaganda to make a country ungovernable or propel regime change will do, so all media houses must be fair and responsible and not extreme.

The negligence by LAZ to do a due diligence on Prime TV and its kind of news reporting in the last few year sbring a lot of question on the fore on the integrity of LAZ and what it really represents. Do they represent impartiality or do they represent an agenda?

For a while now, the current LAZ regime has portrayed signs of being a leftist organization against the PF government and not an organization that is supposed to be impartial, but is a story of another day. If LAZ had even tried to do their due diligence, they should have discovered that Prime TV had been warned before in the past and they had also saved a 30 days suspension imposed by IBA for gross negligence. Below is an extract from the statement by LAZ, _In view of the above provisions of the IBA Act and the contents of the Press Release issued by the IBA on 9th April 2020, LAZ is of the view, and did establish from Prime TV, that the IBA never issued any notice or warning to Prime TV, as required by Section 29 (2) of the IBA Act and that the IBA did not go further to avail Prime TV an opportunity to be heard.

WITHOUT PREJUDICE, LAZ IS OUT OF ORDER Accordingly, LAZ is of the view that the conduct of the IBA in cancelling the licence for Prime TV was done prematurely and contrary to the clear provisions of the law._ The question I beg to ask is, where was LAZ when Prime TV was warned and it saved a 30 days suspension? Does that not amount to a notice or warning to Prime TV a s per LAZ?* Second extract from the statement by LAZ* LAZ is also of the view that the action and conduct of the IBA is an affront to the freedom of the media and an assault on the democratic right of freedom of expression. With the recent decision by the Government to stop all government officers from dealing with Prime TV owing to Prime TV’s reported decision not to allow the Government to air any COVID-19 announcements on Prime TV and the removal of Prime TV from the TopStar platform, the timing of the cancellation of Prime TV’s licence raises a lot of speculation and reasonable doubts about the independence and professionalism of the IBA in this matter. This is a serious concern for the future of the private media in Zambia especially as the nation heads towards the 2021 Presidential and General Elections._

How does the cancellation of the Prime TV’s licence for its rogue and irresponsible reporting have to do with the 2021 general elections? How does IBA’s independence and professionalism, an independent organization just like LAZ come under fire by LAZ? Is LAZ’s accusation of IBA a reflection of what they stand for?

With the fore going, it is very easy to conclude, unless otherwise that LAZ is also a compromised organization just like Prime TV with a hidden agenda for regime change.

Without prejudice and as food for thought, LAZ must take time to ponder the following points: -* • Why is LAZ mute on the irrefutable fact that the media space has continued to exponentially expand under the tenure of PF? • In terms of media freedoms, it appears LAZ has chosen to ignore the fact that it is the PF Government that operationalized the IBA act, which had been in limbo for years. As result of the PF’s media in diversity policy prompting plurality, more than 70 TV and Radio licenses have been issued- INCLUDING PRIME TV - This level/ dimension was only dreamed of under previous regimes.

• Freedom” should not be confused with reckless anarchy. How is it that LAZ conveniently kept mute when Prime TV broadcast exaggerated and inflammatory “news” about “Armed police pursues HH for 8 hours in the bush” during the Kaoma by-election? This is just but one of the many examples of the type of reckless partisan Prime TV reporting that could have plunged this nation into chaos.

• Has LAZ bothered to investigate how one of their former star reporters Kalani Muchima complained about the risks he was subjected to in doing unethical and unorthodox things at the behest of the proprietor?

Dr. Joze Manda is a Political Analyst based in Lusaka

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The essence of what Paramount Chief Chitimukulu said Dear editor WHAT did the Chitimukulu say? Who was the audience?

What was the context? Was he addressing you?

When you are reading an academic journal, look for themes in the article as a summary version of its contents.

Using that framework, those who have reacted negatively to what the Chitimukulu said had issues the moment they came across the following words “bemba, majority, determining who becomes President.” It’s that simple. Deal with your passive hatred for those words.

1. First of all, the Chitimukulu was addressing his subjects. He was NOT addressing the nation of Zambia.

He is Paramount Chief of Bemba people. Don’t expect the President of Zambia to address

the interests of Namibia in his national address. Despite being an African, the President of Zambia acts and speaks in the interest of Zambians. So lets not be naive or petty.

2. In his address to his subjects, the Chitimukulu bemoaned the lack of leadership in the Bemba community as no one was speaking on their behalf hence the diversion of funds meant for projects in Chinsali as the case was with the Luwingu road when the MMD Government used money meant for that road to fund its convention.

3. The Mwine Lubemba did not spare the leadership of certain political parties that have been formed but lack substance hence most of them fall by the way side.

4. He also expressed concern over those who are sponsored politically to demean their tribe for whatever reasons.

5. On voting, he claimed since Bembas were in the majority, they have always determined who becomes President from KK days.

To put some emphasis, he actually said they have voted for whoever they believe in with no tribal lenses.

He therefore asked them to use their numbers and put in the right leadership in place.

He did not mention the tribe or party to vote for. He just asked them to vote in numbers as the case is in Southern Province.

6.Lastly, he challenged his subjects to embrace values of a true Bemba I.e. frankness, aggressiveness and giving things their proper names without fear.

Like Davies WA Phiri said, either you are tribal or you don’t understand Bemba if you have issues with his sentiments.

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AUTHORITIES in Kitwe and Kalulushi, including Members of Parliament (MPs) and civic leaders have upscaled the Cocid-19 sensitisation programme in hot-spots such as highly-populated areas.

They have however expressed concern that some people entering the two Copperbelt towns did not have masks, even at the point of screening.

Nkana MP, Alexander Chiteme, his Kalulushi counterpart, Kampamba Mulenga, Kitwe District Commissioner (DC) Chileshe Bweupe, Kitwe Mayor Christopher Kangombe and his Kalulushi counterpart Rashida Mulenga toured a dry-port at Zamtan in Kitwe to check on preventing measures.

Mr Chiteme, who is National Development Planning Minister, said people who were entering Kitwe from other parts of the country must wear face masks to avoid the chances of spreading the disease.

“As Minister and MP in Kitwe, I must say establishing a dry port is a good idea to screen people for COVID 19 as they enter Kitwe. We may face challenges and

gaps, but we should work together to fill up the gaps and the challenges,” Mr Chiteme said And Ms Mulenga, who is also Community Development Minister, said Kitwe and Kalulushi should work hard to prevent the spread of the diseases to the two districts.

The MP said challenges like lack of sanitizers and others should be addressed because COVID-19 was not selective.

“We should ensure that Kitwe and Kalulushi are locked down through effective preventive measures like this dry port. Let us work in close collaboration to fight this disease.

“What we need is close collaboration in ensuring we reduce the chances of COVID 19 spreading to this place,’’ Ms Mulenga said.

Meanwhile, Mr Kang’ombe said the newly established dry port required enough manpower, sanitizers and other items key in fighting the spread of COVID-19.

He said he was however impressed with collaborated efforts from health officers and members of the public.

“There is collaboration from health workers and also cooperation from public transporters who are accepting to disembark from the vehicles to be screened and they are following all guidelines at the Luangwacheckpoint,’’ Mr Kang’ombe said The Mayor proposed that two more dry ports to should be established at Sabina and Kandabwe.

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Mr Tembo told the Daily Nation that people in the district were slowly following the laid down guidelines against Covid-19 "I am very happy that people now know that they have to wear masks

By ROGERS KALERO KITWE residents must take COVID 19 preventive measures seriously because the city has scarred history of a major cholera outbreak in 1992 when victims were buried in a mass grave, former Town Clerk Ali Simwinga has warned.

Mr Simwinga said the residents should cooperate with the local authority and other stakeholders in observing preventive measures.

He was speaking in an interview with the Daily Nation.

"A wise person will learn from other people's experiences, but a fool will wait for his own experience to find a solution to his or her problem. I am sure Kitwe has learnt from what is happening in Lusaka regarding COVID 19 "Kitwe has a history of a mass grave of people who died of Cholera in 1992 and people should handle this COVID 19 with the seriousness,'' Mr Simwinga said He said the Copperbelt city has a reference point for pandemic outbreaks because of various factors, hence the need to come together in the fight against covid-19 "This is an extremely difficult period for economists, ordinary people, scientists, journalists, pilots, drivers, teachers, lawyers and every other profession,” he said.

And Association of Vendors and Marketeers (AVEMA) President Able Chikwa has warned marketeers to observe social distance, a measure which was proving a challenge.

Mr Chikwa has said Government had been flexible to allow markets to operate in the face of the COVID 19 and so it

when they are going to places where social distancing is challenge. I am also happy to see that most shop owners have provided soap and sanitisers for customers to wash their hands before they get to their shops," he said.

Mr Tembo said that what was important was to change

the mind-set of the people who were key in the fight against the deadly corona virus.

The Mayor however complained that some people were not taking social distancing as a serious matter. He said that others had been having secret gatherings especially those that still did not want to accept

the fact that bars were closed.

"We have been receiving reports that some people have even gone as far as using their homes as drinking places. But I am warning that nobody will be spared once found. The law will deal with each and every person that will be found wanting," Mr Tembo said.

Learn from the past - Simwinga was imperative that traders strictly follow the preventive measures stipulated by Ministry of Health.

He reminded marketeers that failure to observe

preventive measures like social distancing and cleaning could force Government to close the markets "Let us ensure that leaders at various levels provide

leadership expected of them.

Government has been flexible to allow markets to operate in the face of the COVID 19 and so it is only reasonable that we respond accordingly.

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The three are easily grown and have a lot of beneficial effects on our health. The three in our diet improves the immune system therefore, they contribute in special ways to the proper function of the complex defense system.

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N the book of Numbers 11:5‌ while Israelites wondered in the Sinai desert they yearned for the foods they had eaten in Egypt and specifically they mentioned onions, garlic and leeks, why mentioning these in particular, this was so because they valued and missed these for their medicinal value. In the three plants or vegetables the Israelites found a medicinal food that helped them avoid and cure respiratory disorders and also gave them vigor and health.

In our effort to supplement our diet and maintain our good health, as was said in the last issue some of these useful vegetables can be grown in our backyard gardens. The three, onion, garlic and leek are easily grown and have a lot of beneficial effects on our health.

The three in our diet improves the immune system The goodness with these plants they are rarely attacked by pests, this is to our advantage as there will be no need to buy pesticides to control pests on the crop. Equally, the benefits can be extended to other vegetables if intercropped at the level of back yard farming. therefore, they contribute in special ways to the proper function of the complex defense system. Hence, they have the advantage of not

producing resistant germs and not altering the body’s normal bacterial flora.

The issue here, is that farmers or not we are all encouraged to grow these vegetables as they help us to combat some infection.

Let us have the altitude of growing something that we can eat at the same time that food is for medicinal purposes.

The goodness with these plants they are rarely attacked by pests, this is to our advantage as there will be no need to buy pesticides to control pests on the crop.

Equally, the benefits can be extended to other vegetables if intercropped at the level of back yard farming.

At an advanced farming level if this is done, it will mean that the other plant would

antibiotics as well as antiseptics.

Onions are the common vegetable among the three and are easily grown. For those suffering or are diabetic, onions once eaten they have an anti – diabetic action, that is delays the passage of sugar into the blood – stream. It has desirable effects on diabetics.

Onions have a lot of other benefits apart from what has been mentioned.

Eating raw onion can stop or relieve an asthma crisis because of its anti – allergic and bronchodilator properties. All this is to encourage backyard farmers to be self-sustaining in herbal medicine grown as food in their own premises. For best result onions must be eaten in their raw form but

ONIONS Onions are the common vegetable among the three and are easily grown. For those suffering or are diabetic, onions once eaten they have an anti – diabetic action, that is delays the passage of sugar into the blood – stream. be taken or considered as a weed.

The three foods that is onion, garlic and leek in one way or another do combat bacteria and viruses that cause or aggravate bronchitis hence, they are natural

they must be washed, but for those suffering from gastric ulcers or gastritis should eat onions either boiled or baked. But baked onions should not be in the oven for a very long time as they become less effective as medicine.

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CRISIS Eating raw onion can stop or relieve an asthma crisis because of its anti – allergic and bronchodilator properties.

All this is to encourage backyard farmers to be self-sustaining in herbal medicine grown as food in their own premises.

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all farmers since they have the passion for farming and those living far away from health institutions in an event that such things happen, the three vegetables are the first aid that can be relied upon. Farming is not only to think of making good income, health should be looked into as well. What should be remembered also is when God gave man plants to eat as food, it is because the plants would draw the required elements or substances from the soil suitable to maintain a human being or body.

The three have the substances that help man to fight sickness and also to strengthen our immune system. They have the required minerals e.g. calcium and magnesium, sulfur and various vitamins needed by the body. These substances are not polluted in anyway hence; they provide the best material for defense purposes. Especially, where this has to do with respiratory problems.

Foods like onions, garlic and leek can help us reduce our frequency to the clinic.

These days a lot of people have come to know that herbal medicine is more effective for the reasons given above. Today, the three can be and have continued to be of use as nature’s most healing foods.

Let us also practice that at every meal each person should have a bulb of onion to have or derive the best substances that would give us the best or that can be attributed with most of the onion’s properties, that is antibiotic, decongestant, anti – asthmatic, heart and arterial protector.

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By ANDREW MUKOMA SEVEN people have been arrested in Sesheke for defying the health measures and guidelines put in place to prevent the spread of Coronavirus in the country.

The seven were cornered for selling beer in cooler boxes on the street of Sesheke and included five women and two men.

A combined team of security officers pounced on the suspects in the Western Province district during an operation.

Sesheke District Commissioner (DC), Sililo Sililo, who accompanied the team, confirmed the development to the Daily Nation in Sesheke.

Mr Sililo said that during the operation, beer valued at K 2, 850 was recovered and the culprits were detained.

“We’ve constituted a task force at district level compulsory of all security wings and we did patrols in Katima and Sesheke town, where we arrested five women and two men, who were selling beer in cooler boxes valued at K 2,850, he said.

The DC said that the suspects had breached the law introduced to stop the spread of COVID-19 through people gathering in large numbers and without observing social distancing.

Mr Sililo further said the district had identified the Katima Mulilo Trade School as the quarantine centre for all truck drivers coming from Namibia. “The drivers will be quarantined from there for 14 days and after that, a special arrangement will be made for the trucks to be escorted from Sesheke to Livingstone.

“However, BHL Company has provided two vans which will help us to escort BHL trucks from Sesheke to Kaoma and thereafter, Police in Kaoma will escort them up North-Western where driver will be quarantine from,” he said.

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The residents have described as a relief the decision by government to start releasing those that had completed their 14 days observation in view of the outbreak of Covid-19.

International truck drivers were quarantine at the Livingstone Institute of Business and Engineering Studies (LIBES) as a measure to contain the spread of Covid-19.

By Thursday, over 147 trucks left the tourist capital heading to their destinations while more left afterwards.

This development has elated some Livingstone residents especially those that live near LIBES, who feared that some drivers could transmit the deadly disease as they were mingling with people in the community.

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KANSANSHI Mining PLC has donated 2,838 library books to Solwezi Municipality Council to improve literacy level in the North-western capital.

The donation was made through Kansanshi Foundation and was aimed at assisting improve the low literacy levels.

Kansenshi Foundation Education Advisor, Onward Mandevu, said that Solwezi and Zambia at large could not develop with low literacy levels hence the donation of the novels, early childhood and senior school textbooks.

Mr Mandevu “And we believe that education or rather literacy is the best legacy we can leave for the people in the community,” He said the mining firm was keen in seeing to it that it ploughed back in the community it was operating.

"And we believe that education or rather literacy is the best legacy we can leave for the people in the community," he said.

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Receiving the donation, Solwezi Mayor Nicholas Mukumbi said books were still the most popular source of information and knowledge for academics and other people.

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He said the council was in the process of establishing a library at the Kimasala Community Centre and planned to set up another one at the Civic Centre.

Mr Mukumbi said other libraries would be set up in each ward in order to reduce the movement of people from distant places to access reading materials. The Mayor encouraged members of the community to read the books once the Library was opened and expressed gratitude to the mining company for the gesture.

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ONG Kong - The African community in Guangzhou is on edge after widespread accounts were shared on social media of people being left homeless this week, as China's warnings against imported coronavirus cases stoke anti-foreigner sentiment.

In the southern Chinese city, Africans have been evicted from their homes by landlords and turned away from hotels, despite many claiming to have no recent travel history or known contact with Covid-19 patients.

CNN interviewed more than two dozen Africans living in Guangzhou many of whom told of the same experiences: being left without a home, being subject to random testing for Covid-19, and being quarantined for 14 days in their homes, despite having no symptoms or contact with known patients.

Health authorities in Guangdong ​ province and the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau did not respond to CNN's request for comment.

The move comes amid heightened media coverage of the so-called second wave of coronavirus cases, emanating from infections outside of China. Earlier this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping urged authorities to carefully watch for imported cases from​ other countries, state news agency Xinhua reported.

But one aspect of the data has received relatively less public attention: on March 26, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Luo Zhaohui said 90% of China’s imported cases held Chinese passports.

On Thursday afternoon, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said: “Since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, China and African countries have always supported each other and have always fought against the virus jointly.

“I would like to emphasize that the Chinese government treats all foreigners in China equally, opposes any differentiated practices targeted at specific groups of people, and has zero tolerance for discriminatory words and actions.”

Cases spark a backlash Guangzhou has long had the largest African community in China. Because many Africans in the city have short-term business visas, they travel into China several times a year, making it difficult to calculate the size of the African population the city. But in 2017, approximately 320,000 Africans entered or left China through Guangzhou, according to Xinhua.

African residents say local hostility to their presence is nothing new. But when coronavirus cases emerged in the African community this month it served to amplify existing tensions.

A report on April 4 alleged that a Nigerian national with Covid-19 had attacked a Chinese nurse who tried to stop him leaving an isolation ward at a Guangzhou hospital​ . The report was shared widely on social media, and local Africans CNN spoke to say a racist backlash against the African community ​followed.

Then on April 7, Guangzhou

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authorities said five Nigerians had tested positive for Covid-19.

Fearing a cluster among the African community, Guangzhou authorities upgraded the risk level of Yuexiu and Baiyun, the areas home to the city’s two African enclaves, from low to medium, stateowned Global Times reported.

The ​ local government Tuesday reported 111 imported cases of Covid-19 in Guangzhou, with 28 patients from the UK and 18 from the US. In interviews with CNN, Americans and British nationals in Guangzhou said they had not heard reports of forced testing, home evictions and additional quarantine measures being imposed on members of their communities.

On Saturday, however, the US Consulate in Guangzhou warned African-Americans to avoid travel to the city.

“In response to an increase in Covid-19 infections, officials in the Guangzhou metropolitan area escalated scrutiny of foreign nationals,” the consulate said in a statement. “As part of this campaign, police

ordered bars and restaurants not to serve clients who appear to be of African origin. Moreover, local officials launched a round of mandatory tests for Covid-19, followed by mandatory self-quarantine, for anyone with ‘African contacts,’ regardless of recent travel history or previous quarantine completion.

“African-Americans have also reported that some businesses and hotels refuse to do business with them.”

Homeless in Guangzhou On March 21, Nigerian goods trader Chuk, who did not want to use his full name for fear of government reprisals, flew back to Guangzhou, his home since 2009. With China’s coronavirus cases seemingly under control, he wanted to resume his trading business, which had been stymied by the pandemic.

The area around Guangzhou is a manufacturing heartland, where many Africans buy cheap goods to sell back home.

Chuk returned seven days before China closed its borders to most foreign nationals, but upon arrival, he says he was

told that he needed to enter government quarantine at a hotel for two weeks.

As a trader, Chuk travels frequently, and is accustomed to staying in hotels during his time in China.

But on Tuesday, Chuk says that when he was released, along with about 15 other Africans, with a clean bill of health, they effectively became homeless.

Africans sleeping on the street in Guangzhou, after being unable to find shelter.

“We went to the hotel with the certificate, but we were rejected,” he said. The group went to the police station to report that hotels were refusing to let Africans stay, but “they refused to talk to us.”

The Guangzhou Public Security Bureau, which oversees the police, did not respond to CNN’s request for comment about events described by anyone CNN interviewed.

Chuk says he had no choice but to sleep rough for two nights, before finding a friend’s couch to crash on. “Rain fell that day and the next and we were all drenched and our

belongings soaked,” he said.

His story was echoed by others who spoke to CNN. Earlier this week, images began circulating online of rows of Africans sleeping on the streets of Guangzhou, beside their luggage, having either been evicted from their apartments or been turned away from hotels. Other videos showed police harassing Africans on the street.

On Thursday, CNN called 12 hotels in Guangzhou, wanting to book a room for an African guest, and was informed by 10 that they would not be “accepting foreign guests anymore.”

Meanwhile, multiple Africans CNN spoke to reported being abruptly evicted from their homes.

No one had evidence of a government directive asking landlords or hotels to turn away or reject foreigners. Rather, they say, these appeared to be decisions made by private individuals and business owners.

On Wednesday, Nigerian trader Nonso, whose name has been changed to protect his identity due to fear of government reprisals, says he and his

girlfriend received a message from their landlord at 7 p.m. on WeChat, a Chinese messaging app, saying they needed to vacate their flat by 8 p.m.. “I told him I can’t vacate in one hour,” said Nonso, who pays 1,500 yuan ($212) a month for his apartment in the Nanhai, on the outskirts of Guangzhou, and has lived in China for three years.

At 10 p.m. he says his landlord came to the flat and cut off the electricity and water supply.

“I asked them, what did I do?

I’ve paid rent until September with two months’ deposit. They didn’t give me any reason,” he said.

Nonso called the police, who let them ​remain in the apartment for the night. But in the morning, ​Nonso says the landlord returned with a different officer, who said he had to leave. ​Nonso says he has struggled to find a new apartment to rent. “We have contacted a lot of agents none of them are leasing to black foreigners,” he said.

Chris Leslie, also from Nigeria, said he was abruptly evicted from his Guangzhou apartment on Thursday, despite not defaulting on his rent and having a valid contract.

He had nowhere to sleep that night. “I will just hang out outside,” he said. “It is so pathetic.

In a country where people don’t accept you and they criticize, this is just a bitter humiliation.

The most important thing is having somewhere to sleep.”

On Thursday, several volunteer groups emerged on WeChat, mostly populated by scores of other foreigners, rallying around the displaced Africans, organizing food, masks and sanitation products for those left wandering the streets of Guangzhou without a bed.

Katie Smith, an American living in Guangzhou with her Moroccan boyfriend, made two deliveries to newly homeless Africans on Thursday.

Her name has been changed to protect her identity, as she, too, fears reprisal from local authorities. - CNN

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South Africa says police caught in liquor sales after coronavirus alcohol ban JOHANNESBURG - South Africa, which banned the sale of all alcohol and cigarettes under a coronavirus lockdown that triggered a wave of lootings of liquor shops, said on Sunday it had caught police officers who were complicit in illegal alcohol sales.

South Africa’s police minister Bheki Cele says a ban on all sales of alcohol has helped lower crime during a coronavirus lockdown. But with liquor stores shut, the country has seen a growing black market for alcohol and a wave of attacks on shuttered shops.

In a statement, the police ministry said there had been at least 16 reported instances of burglary and the looting of liquor stores in the Western Cape, home to the city of Cape Town.

Cele “has in the meantime noted with concern the alleged involvement of police members in some of the liquor related crimes,” it continued.

Two police warrant officers had been arrested after being caught buying alcohol, allegedly for resale, on Thursday, alongside a store manager and cashier. Two further members of the police in another province were caught on Friday escorting three light pick-up trucks loaded with alcohol, the statement said.

Those who undermine the effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus would be found and dealt with decisively, the statement said. - REUTERS

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UNDREDS of people have died and thousands more have been poisoned in Iran after drinking high-concentration alcohol in the mistaken belief it can cure coronavirus.

More than 600 people have died after attempting the cure and some 3,000 are now in hospital, Iranian judicial spokesman Gholam Hossein Esmaili said Tuesday. ‘The numbers are very high and are beyond our expectations,’ Esmaili said. ‘Alcohol consumption is not a cure but can be lethal.’

Speaking to state-run Tasnim News Agency, he added: ‘A number of people have been arrested... and we will deal with them decisively.

‘They must be held accountable for their criminal acts, for causing death and damage to citizens.’

Iran is the site of the Middle East’s worst coronavirus outbreak, having confirmed 62,589 cases of the virus and 3,872 deaths.

Questions have been raised over Iran’s data after the country initially downplayed the severity of the outbreak.

So far medics have identified no cure for coronavirus, and have identified only a limited number of drugs that may help to ease symptoms.

Iran’s parliament convened Tuesday for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak forced its doors to close, as the country reported a drop in new infections for the seventh

straight day.

More than two-thirds of the legislature’s 290 members gathered in the absence of speaker and veteran politician Ali Larijani, who tested positive for COVID-19 last week.

At least 31 members of the parliament, or Majles, which had been shut since February 25, have contracted the disease.

State television footage of the opening session showed some MPs huddling together despite guidelines on social distancing to stop the spread of the virus.

Parliament debated and eventually blocked an urgent bill to totally lock down the country for a month, with those against arguing it would damage the economy.

‘This plan is against jobs and growing productivity.

Who’s going to pay for implementing it?’ MP Shadmehr Kazemzadeh said, according

to the semi-official news agency ISNA. But Abdolkarim Hosseinzadeh, who drafted the bill, said Iran had been ‘confused’ about how to contain the virus.

‘We must urgently make a decision, as history will judge us,’ he said.

Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour reported 133 new coronavirus deaths, saying the overall fatalities had reached 3,872.

Another 2,089 infections were recorded nationwide, bringing the total to 62,589.

In a bid to halt COVID-19, Iran has ordered the closure of non-essential businesses and imposed inter-city travel bans, while refraining from a lockdown.

But its taskforce to battle the virus said ‘low-risk’ businesses would be allowed to reopen from Saturday, while observing health protocols.

Boris Johnson discharged from hospital Pope calls for global solidarity in Easter message POPE Francis has called for global solidarity to fight the coronavirus crisis in his Easter message read to an empty St Peter's Basilica.

"This is not a time for indifference. Because the whole world is suffering and needs to be united," the pontiff said in a message broadcast online.

He warned that the EU risked collapse and urged debt relief for poor nations.

Around the world, services have been held in closed churches as millions of people have been told to stay at home.

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church delivered his Urbi et Orbi (to the city and the world) message behind closed doors amid lockdown measures imposed in Italy, one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic.

Saying this year's "Easter of solitude" message should be

a contagion of hope, he urged political leaders to work "for the common good", to help people live through the crisis and eventually resume their normal lives.

“This isn’t a time for self-centredness because the challenge we’re facing is shared by all,” the pontiff said in a message almost entirely dominated by the effects of the outbreak, that has killed more than 109,000 people globally.

“Indifference, self-centredness, division and forgetfulness are not words we want to hear at this time. We want to ban these words forever!,” he added.

Without citing any country, the pontiff also called for the relaxation of international sanctions and praised doctors, nurses and other workers who were keeping essential services running.

PRIME Minister Boris Johnson has left hospital after being treated for coronavirus, but will not immediately return to work, Downing Street says.

Mr Johnson, 55, was taken to St Thomas' hospital, in London, on Sunday - 10 days after testing positive for the virus.

He had three nights in intensive care before returning to a ward on Thursday.

Downing Street said the PM would continue his recovery at his country residence, THE United States has now overtaken Italy to have the highest death toll from coronavirus in the world.

The latest data, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, shows more than 20,000 people in the US have now died.

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The governor of New York Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday the state's death toll appeared to be stabilising.

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"On the advice of his medical team, the PM will not be immediately returning to work.

He wishes to thank everybody at St Thomas' for the brilliant care he has received.

"All of his thoughts are with those affected by this illness."

The prime minister's fiancee, Carrie Symonds, who is expecting a baby, said on Twitter: "Thank you also to everyone who sent such kind messages of support. Today I'm feeling incredibly lucky.

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"I cannot thank our magnificent NHS enough. The staff at St Thomas' Hospital have been incredible.

I will never, ever be able to repay you and I will never stop thanking you."

Ms Symonds, who is due to give birth in two months, has been self-isolating with coronavirus-like symptoms but has not been tested. - BBC

Mr Johnson

Coronavirus: US death toll overtakes Italy as world's highest 529,951 recorded cases of Covid-19 across the US. Dr Anthony Fauci, US infectious diseases chief, has said the country is “starting to see the levelling off and coming down” of cases and deaths but says mitigation efforts such as social distancing should not be pulled back yet.

Federal social distancing recommendations, issued by President Donald Trump, are currently in place until 30 April.

The president is facing twin

pressures from the outbreak: with at least 16 million jobs lost in recent weeks as virus restrictions cripple the country’s economy.

He said on Friday that a new council, made up of business and medical figures, would be announced next week to help him with the “biggest decision I’ve ever had to make” on when to relax measures.

It comes as Congress continues to spar over the next stage of Covid-19 financial relief.

Democrats want a new

proposed $250bn (£200bn) bill to help small businesses to also allow for additional funding for hospitals and local governments.

But on Saturday the two top Republicans in Congress, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, rejected the demand.

In a statement they described the move as a “reckless threat” which blocked “job-saving funding”. - BBC

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Sports activities still prohibited – Chilufya

By MICHAEL MIYOBA HEALTH Minister Chitalu Chilufya has emphasised that sports activities remain suspended during the extended 14 days ban on public gatherings.

Speaking after announcing Zambia’s three more cases of Covid-19, Chilufya said all sporting activities have been suspended to prevent the spread of the virus.

Chilufya said government would not promote sporting activities that bring people closer together and promote transmission of the virus.

“I’m not talking about football alone but I’m saying sporting events that bring people together in numbers and do not comply to the

…signing coach’s contract is not my responsibility says the Sports Minister

By MICHAEL MIYOBA

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INISTER of Sports Youth and Child Development says signing national team’s coach Milutin Micho Sredojevic’s contract is not his responsibility.

Speaking during a press briefing on Saturday, Mulenga said Micho’s contract can only be signed by the implementing officer.

Mulenga said he would be crossing the line if he was to get involved with the signing of Micho’s contract because his duties as Minister of

Sports entailed implementing policies.

He stated that as a bureaucratic leader, he operated by the regulations and laws put in place.

“A minister does not sign on any contract that is under the law. Whether the ministry is employing or entering into a contract with anyone, it’s not the minister who signs the contract, the contract is signed by the implementing officer so I don’t understand why many times I’m being dragged in the issue of the contract, it’s not my mandate to sign Micho contract,” Mulenga said.

Meanwhile Mulenga denied social media allegations accusing him of sponsoring banned football administrator Damiano Mutale, former FAZ boss Kalusha Bwalya and Patson Lusaka to cause confusion at FAZ. Mulenga who was on Tuesday given a fourday ultimatum by Bwalya, Lusaka and Mutale to dissolve the FAZ executive committee led by Kamanga said government had no preferred candidate for the FAZ presidency.

He said Governments’ interest is to see Zambian football going forward rather than saving the interests of Kamanga or Kalusha.

“If I was supporting Kalusha Bwalya I would have ordered that his name be on the ballot but that is not my interest. “I’m not in support of Kalusha Bwalya, neither am I in support of Kamanga.

In fact my prayer is that whoever will win will unit everyone because their fights are detrimental to the growth of football. We are not growing where football is concerned,” he said.

With the warring football administrators having agreed to hold an emergency Annual General Meeting, it is Muleng’s hope that the squabbles at FAZ would be resolved.

Rogers Cup postponed until August 2021 THE women's section of the Rogers Cup has been postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The decision to call off August's WTA event in Montreal has been made with both the women's and men's tours already suspended until 12 July.

A WTA statement said the move was because of "measures

taken by the Quebec government to prohibit events until 31 August, 2020".

No announcement has been made about the men's event, taking place in Toronto.

Each year the men's and women's events switch between Toronto and Montreal.

"At the beginning of the crisis we were hoping that the situation would be resolved

in time to be able to host our tournament as initially planned on the calendar, but we knew that the chances were getting smaller and smaller in recent weeks," said tournament director Eugene Lapierre.

Last year, Bianca Andreescu won the title after her opponent in the final, Serena Williams, withdrew injured in the first set.

-BBC

basics of social distancing, the basics of ensuring we are in numbers less than the prescribed number and in compliance with the Public Act have been suspended through the presidential address made a few days ago,” Chilufya said.

It is alleged that some football clubs on the Copperbelt have continued to hold secret trainings even after Government discouraged public gatherings to stop the spread of the Covid-19.

Chilufya encouraged sports men and women to comply with government directives and conduct their trainings from home to stop the spread of the pandemic.

“We have stopped worshiping as a big fellowships on Saturdays and Sunday in compliance with the presidential directives so there is no reason why we would allow people to continue with business as usual in any sport,” he said.

Invest in sports psychologists – Chitangala

By MUKWIMA CHILALA

A SPORTS administrator is concerned at the lack of investment in sports psychologists in Zambia saying there was need for athletes to be counselled in the wake of inactivity due to the indefinite suspension of sports activities.

OYDC Zambia executive director Fred Chitangala said the life of all athletes revolved around the playing field and as result athletes had been affected with the closure of all facilities due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Dr Chitangala said that there was need for experts and psychologists to work hand in hand with athletes so as to help them out during this COVID-19 period.

He said not only athletes that had qualified to the Olympics but all sports person in general needed help and care on how to cope up with inactivity induced by the pandemic. He noted that majority of athletes had lost out on income during this period as all facilities had shut down and that there were no resources coming from gate takings. Chitangala called on sports persons to devise programmes that would enable them train from home so as to avoid conditions such as obesity and depression.

“WE don’t want to have obese athletes or lose our sports men and women due to depression caused by a loss on income or anxiety of just staying home. So our athletes need to devise programmes to enable them continue training from home,’’ Chitangala said.

Unfortunately it’s of concern that we as a nation have not invested much in sports psychology because our athletes need the guidance of experts during this period. The OYDC Zambia and many other sports facilities have for the past Month remained closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has seen all sports and social activities suspended.

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