Major news items in leading Zambian media outlets

The following are news highlights of Zambia's major media outlets on Wednesday.

-- President Edgar Lungu has ordered the state-run Food Reserve Agency to start selling maize to individuals in a bid to make mealie meal cheaper in the country.

President Lungu said he would sit with Cabinet to discuss the best ways to reduce the price of the staple food because millers have been a letdown. He said he was sad that a lot of maize was being smuggled out of the country. (Zambia Daily Mail)

-- The Civil Servants and Allied Workers Union of Zambia said President Edgar Lungu's directive to public workers seeking political office to resign is discriminatory to the public servants.

Civil Servants and Allied Workers Union president Davy Chiyobe said most public servants who had authentic qualifications to aspire for political office were interested in contesting the August 11 general elections but feared that they would lose their jobs and also lose the adoption if the political parties do not accept their applications.

Lungu ordered all public workers who have applied to contest for office in the forthcoming elections to resign their government positions or else he would force them out. (The Post)

-- The Zambian government has asked African governments to embrace appropriate climate resilience and adaptation measures.

Minister of Transport and Communications Kapembwa Simbao said failure to embrace appropriate climate resilience and adaptation measures will result in the region's development trajectory to continue declining.

He said paramount among the needed measures was the generation of tailored weather and climate information and its application in planning and decision making process at national, community and personal levels. (Zambia Daily Nation) Endit