Zambia

Zambia, a country in southern Africa, is interested in pharmaceutical items created in Bangladesh and has urged Bangladesh to investigate the possibility of establishing a pharmaceutical plant on its territory. According to a press release from...

Almost 52,000 children under the age of five in the 84 drought-affected districts in Zambia are expected to fall into severe wasting – the deadliest form of malnutrition – within the next 12 months if urgent...

Archaeologists announced on Wednesday that they had uncovered the oldest wooden structure ever found, which dates back nearly half a million years. This finding raises the possibility that our ancestors were more advanced than previously believed....

Zambians voted in national elections on Thursday, following a heated campaign dominated by economic concerns and the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. There are sixteen presidential contenders running, but President Edgar Lungu, 64, and his long-time...

The number of new cases has fallen to around 80 from 164 a week ago. Of the more than 3,200 cases reported in total, more than 3,000 have been in Lusaka. Zambia on Sunday relaxed rules...

News Hour: Edgar Lungu is set to be inaugurated as president of Zambia on Tuesday, after a last-minute court bid by a defeated opposition candidate failed to halt the ceremony. Lungu, who first took power last...

News Hour: The front-runners in Zambia’s presidential election on Thursday are incumbent Edgar Lungu and rags-to-riches businessman Hakainde Hichilema — two adversaries who battled it out only last year, reports BSS. Lungu won that election by...

News Hour: The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), IOM and the Governments of Zambia and Zimbabwe have held inaugural meetings of their respective National Monitoring Committees (NMCs) on the COMESA Free Movement of...

News Hour: IOM last week assisted 25 stranded Ethiopians intercepted in Zambia while trying to reach South Africa to safely return home. The returnees were among the 76 survivors found in a container truck that claimed...

News Hour: IOM has helped 39 Ethiopian migrants stranded in Zambia en route to South Africa to return home. The migrants included 24 adults and 15 unaccompanied minors, who were intercepted by the Zambian authorities and...