Kenya will import one million bags of maize from Zambia to boost its stock and avert a looming shortage in the second half of the year.

THE Kitwe City Council (KCC) has said the "Make Zambia Clean and Healthy" campaign Copperbelt committee is an illegal entity and should stop asking organisations to pay a participation fee of K500,000.

Lusaka City Council (LCC) officials are allegedly allocating land belonging to Chibombo District Council (CDC) in Central Province.

PRESIDENT Mwanawasa yesterday attended a committee of 10 African Heads of State and Government constituted to look at the United Nations reforms.

THE Lusaka High court has granted Alliance Ginneries Limited (AGL) an injunction restraining Continental Ginneries Limited (CGL) from buying cotton grown by farmers holding contracts with AGL in Southern Province.

THE price of Jet A-1 fuel for aircraft has been increased by about 50 per cent with immediate effect due to soaring prices of crude oil at the international market.

THE problem of Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia (NCZ) is one that has exercised the minds of successive Governments in Zambia, and the reasons are well known.

Freedom fighter Job Shimankana Tabane was finally laid rest on South African soil on Saturday, after being buried in Zambia in 1987.

PREVENTION measures in the fight against HIV/AIDS are repeatedly being criticised for having a limited impact on the predominantly heterosexual disease found in Africa.

EIGHT people died on the spot while 22 others have been admitted to Mazabuka District Hospital after two trucks collided head-on in Mazabuka on Thursday night.

WITH no end in sight to the worsening scenario of Zimbabwe's human rights abuses, pressure is now beginning to mount on southern African countries to break the silence and join hands to help resolve the neighbouring country's crisis.

PRESIDENT Levy Mwanawasa is tomorrow expected to arrive in Egypt's tourism resort city of Sharm-el-Sheikh to attend the 11th Ordinary African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government Summit, which opens on Monday next week.

THE Government has allocated more than K58 billion to Kafue's Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia (NCZ) and assured the nation that it has no intention of closing down the company but said it will recapitalise it.

UNITED Nations (UN) special envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa, Elizabeth Mataka has said the high level of ignorance among the youth on HIV/AIDS should be bridged with accurate information to protect the young people from contracting and further spreading the

THE MMD has won the Milanzi constituency by-election in Katete which was contested by five other political parties.

As President Mwanawasa warned on departure for Egypt on Saturday, Zambians must brace themselves for a rise in most commodity prices because of skyrocketing fuel prices on the international market.