Top news items of major Zambian media outlets

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

-- Zambia's human rights body said the attacks on businesses owned by foreigners were a crime against humanity and a violation of human rights.

The Human Rights Commission said targeting an individual or a group of individuals purely because of their identity such as nationality or place or origin, ethnicity, tribal or social status was one of the worst forms of violation of human rights because it was discriminatory.

-- Lusaka, the Zambian capital, has witnessed attacks on businesses owned by foreigners, mostly from Rwanda, on suspicion that the owners were behind a spate of ritual killings that have occurred in the city in recent weeks. (DAILY NATION)

-- The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has asked Zambia to ease its stringent regulations of the exportation of maize and mealie-meal in view of the critical shortage of the staple food in that country.

DRC Minister OF Mines Martin Kabwelulu,who led a delegation sent by DRC President Joseph Kabila, appealed to President Edgar Lungu to allow Congolese to buy maize and mealie-meal from Zambia to mitigate the acute scarcity of the two commodities in that country.

Zambia has put in place strict measures on the export of maize and mealie-meal following an increase in the smuggling of the two commodities to neighboring countries. (ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL)

-- A youth lobby group said it will engage donors to withdraw their financial support towards Zambia's August 11 general elections if the country's electoral body fails to justify its decision to print ballot papers in Dubai.

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) said the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) must halt its proposal to print ballot papers in Dubai forthwith until consensus is built over the matter. (THE POST) Endit