TREASURY BILLS RAISE K1.3 BILLION
Treasury bill offer by the central bank attracted over K1.3 billion at a success rate range of 14.43 percent last Thursday, Recently, the Bank of Zambia (Boz) has come through…
SOUTH AFRICA COVID-19 CASES SURPASS 300,000, SAYS HEALTH MINISTRY
Africa’s most industrialised nation recorded a rise of 12,757 cases on Wednesday to reach 311,049 confirmed COVID-19 cases, its health ministry said in a late evening statement four months since…
NIGERIA HOPES GOLD MINING REFORMS CAN BRING IN $500 MILLION A YEAR
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria hopes changes it has made to gold mining regulation will earn the government $500 million a year in royalties and taxes and create 250,000 jobs, President…
CORONAVIRUS: CHINESE ECONOMY BOUNCES BACK INTO GROWTH
China's economy grew 3.2% in the second quarter following a record slump. The world's second biggest economy saw a sharp decline in the first three months of the year during…
SCIENTISTS CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS TO BE INFECTED WITH THE CORONAVIRUS TO TEST VACCINES
Over 100 prominent scientists, including 15 Nobel laureates, are calling for healthy volunteers to be exposed to the coronavirus to see whether vaccines against Covid-19 actually work.The scientists signed an…
IAPRI FOR CUT FUNDING
INDABA Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI) has advised Government to reduce funding to the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) and Food Reserve Agency (FRA). Last month, Government announced the release…
ZAMBIAN BORDERS ALLOWING IN ALL GOODS- MULENGA
Zambia has permitted all goods to transit through its borders without any tag of essential or non-essential, Commerce, Trade and Industry Permanent Secretary, Mushuma Mulenga has said. Mr Mulenga sad…
LUSE CRIES FOUL
REDUCED market activity and share price drop in some companies listed on the Lusaka Securities Exchange (LuSE) resulted in a significant decline in the overall turnover to about K26,000 last…
ZACCI FOR LIBERALISATION, INDUSTRIALISATION AGENDA
The Zambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ZACCI) says the country needs to urgently develop a liberalised and single licence regime across economic sectors to boost industrialisation and economic growth.…
NATIONAL COOPERATIVE STRATEGY TO QUICKEN ECONOMIC GROWTH
THE growth of cooperatives could help unlock Zambia’s economic potential given their diversity in the provision of various products, the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry has said. Public relations…