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Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

Xinhua, March 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

The following are the highlights of Zambia's major media outlets on Friday.

-- A court in central Zambia's Kabwe town has jailed a 32 year old woman to 20 years with hard labor in jail for procuring young women for prostitution.

Maria Namwinga is said to have procured the women, including a 15 year old girl who is now pregnant, to engage in sex trade between June 1 and July 18, last year. (TIMES OF ZAMBIA)

-- A former Zambian government minister has urged authorities to begin to proactively tackle the current economic challenges going by the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) observation that the country's economy was under intense pressure.

Dipak Patel, who served as commerce, trade and industry minister in late President Fredrick Chiluba's administration in the 1990s, said the IMF's concerns that the government's expenditure was running far above the budget as a result of fuel subsidies and contracted emergency electricity imports should be taken seriously.(THE POST)

-- Zambia's investment agency has launched a five year strategic plan aimed at promoting and facilitating the increase of non-traditional exports into new and existing markets through value addition and diversification.

Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) director general Patrick Chisanga said the strategic plan, which will be implemented from this year until 2020, also aims at helping the agency continue identifying investment opportunities throughout the country and attract and facilitate foreign and local investment and reinvestment. (ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL)

-- Zambian President Edgar Lungu has handed the first batch of houses constructed for the police in an effort aimed at tackling a housing deficit facing the police.

Lungu, who handed over the first 48 houses built at a police camp in Lusaka, the country's capital, said his government was determined the tackle the housing problem facing police officers and other defense wings. (DAILY NATION) Endit