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		<title>Zambian Government Faciltates Construction of Solar Power Plants</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Power generated to be sold to ZESCO By NELLA MUKALENGE The Zambian government is to facilitate the construction of 30 Mega Watts (MW) solar power plants in four provinces whose power would be sold to the national power utility, Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation. Ministry of Energy principal energy officer Langiwe Lungu said the power plants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Increased Cassava Production Stop High Mealie Meal Prices?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By HELEN ZULU THE escalating mealie meal prices could have a hidden solution that has not been fully explored in Zambia. Cassava production may just be a perfect but under explored substitute for the maize meal. Growing cassava could contribute to improved food security and nutrition and help to stabilise the escalating mealie meal prices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traders Frustrating Rebased Kwacha Implementation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By GIDEON THOLE GOVERNMENT has warned traders countrywide against frustrasting its efforts in implementating the Kwacha rebasing exercise, saying this will trigger price increases and inflation. Director of domestic trade in the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry, Albert Muchanga said yesterday that the Government did not want any instability in the economy, the reason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMEs Benefit From Increased Commercial Bank Lending</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA COMMERCIAL banks lending has increased to K14,063 billion as at October 2012 from K11,868 billion in January this year representing 18.5 per cent growth due to reduced lending rates. And the Bankers Association of Zambia (BAZ) has said the Zambian financial landscape remained buoyant supported by the favourable political and socio economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Us Merge African Regional Trade Bodies Into One &#8211; Zambia&#8217;s Finance Minister</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our ideas of development are very often fraught and there are short circuits in our ideas, they are not linked. So let’s stop playing games with SADC, EAC and COMESA instead of just having one regional body By NANCY MWAPE MINISTER of Finance Alexander Chikwanda has urged African countries to stop playing games and come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urine for Fertiliser?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By DARLINGTON MWENDABAI IN Zambia it is considered taboo but to researchers urine fertiliser, once commercialised, will revolutionise agro business on both local and international markets. However, urine fertiliser has gained attention in most parts of the world as farmers embrace organic production methods and try to reduce on the use of synthetic fertilisers. Urine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflecting on the Personal Impact of HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY MELUSE KAPATAMOYO For most people, the commemoration of World AIDS Day (WAD) which falls on December 1 each year entails march pasts and listening to speeches filled with frightening statistics on the high levels of HIV, I celebrated the day with staff at Alliance for Community Action on HIV and AIDS (Alliance Zambia) who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worm Invasion Endangers Zambia&#8217;s Food Crop</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By KALONDE NYATI THE Zambia National Farmers’ Union (ZNFU) has expressed worry at the rate at which army worms are spreading and fears that the infestation will cause a huge economic lose if it is not curbed quickly. Chibombo, Chisamba and Chongwe districts have in the past few days been hit by army worms that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birth Attendants Can&#8217;t Deliver?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By MELUSE KAPATAMOYO For many years, Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA’s) were considered life savers, helping pregnant women, especially those living in rural areas, to deliver safely. Statistics from the Ministry of Health indicate that Zambia functions on a limping health staff of 33, 000 as opposed to the required 60,000, therefore, TBA’s filled the gap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mungule women hatch new family plan for &#8216;overbearing&#8217; hubbies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Meluse Kapatamoyo When couples get married, they become one, literally meaning all decisions and plans made are done jointly and in consultation of the other. But, when it comes to matters of family planning, the women of Mungule have no say. The men plan the family and choose the kind of birth control method [...]]]></description>
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