Maintaining trade links vital for Zambia
3rd September 2010
PRESIDENT Banda says it is important for Zambia to maintain and improve trade links with other countries in the region and beyond as this will encourage foreign investment in the country, develop new markets for local products and create employment. This is contained in a statement issued in Lusaka yesterday by special assistant to the President for press and public relations Dickson Jere after the arrival of President Banda from Swaziland where he travelled to attend the 14th annual Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) summit.......

Demand forensic audit on dissolved Task Force
3rd September 2010
FORUM for Leadership Search executive director Edwin Lifwekelo says donors and other stakeholders should demand a forensic audit on the expenditure of the dissolved Task Force on Corruption instead of directing their energies and anger on the Judiciary which threw out the State’s application to register a London High Court judgement. The London High Court......


Headman nabbed for trafficking
3rd September 2010
THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has arrested a headman of Chasango Village in Kazembe’s area in Kawambwa District for drug trafficking. DEC spokesperson John Nyawali said in a statement yesterday that Albert Chibuye, 71, was arrested after conducting a search at his house where he was found with more than four kg of cannabis concealed in dry banana leaves......