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Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

Xinhua, April 8, 2016 Adjust font size:

The following are the highlights of major Zambian major media outlets on Friday.

-- China Non-Ferrous Corporation Africa (NFC) said it will increase its annual copper production capacity to 100,000 tons from 30,000 tons when extraction at its new project starts next year.

Nelson Jilowa, the company's corporate affairs manager said works at its 832 million U.S. dollars South East Ore Body in Kalulushi town in the Copperbelt Province were progressing well and the project will be commissioned next year.

The project will also create 5,000 jobs. (ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL)

-- The Norwegian government said it was shutting its embassy in Zambia because it wanted to concentrate in other countries with higher interests.

Norwegian ambassador to Zambia Arve Ofstad said it was pointless to keep funding a country which doesn't show commitment to improving its own resource management.

Norway with other Scandinavian countries will close their embassies in Zambia with effect from June this year. (THE POST)

-- An opposition leader said Zambia's President Edgar Lungu will win this year's elections if opposition political parties remain fragmented and fail to form alliances.

Geoffrey Mwamba, vice-president of the main opposition United Party for National Development (UPND), said Lungu, who is seeking re-election in the August 11 elections, will retain his seat without a strong alliance of opposition political parties.

He said alliances were a critical force in championing for regime change and that without them he chances of the opposition unseating the governing Patriotic Front would be unattainable. (DAILY NATION).

-- Former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda's family have dismissed reports that current President Edgar Lungu was using the former president to increase his popularity in the run up to this year's general elections.

Last week, Kaunda accompanied Lungu on a tour of development projects in the northern part of the country, a move that has received a backlash from opposition political parties who have called on the Zambian leader to allow the 92-year-old leader to rest instead of using him as a pawn to win political support.

But Kaweche, one of Kaunda's sons, said his father voluntarily accepted to accompany Lungu on the trip and that he was not forced to do so. (ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL) Endit