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Top news items of Zambian major media outlets

Xinhua, April 24, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Catalina Devandas Aguilar has admitted that the UN has not done enough in promoting the rights of people with disabilities.

The UN envoy, who is in Zambia to meet various stakeholders regarding the issue of disability, however said there was now hope of the situation changing with the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was signed in 2007.

The convention aims to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent. (ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL)

-- Twenty-one people in western Zambia escaped death after a heavy current on the Zambezi River swept them away together with two pontoons and a boat as they attempted to retrieve a pontoon which drifted away last month.

The incident happened on Thursday when the Engineering Services Corporation, an government agency that runs pontoons, commandeered two pontoons and a boat with the 21 people in a bid to retrieve the pontoon which drifted away last month in Senanga district.

Senanga District Commissioner Vivian Mubukwanu said the rescue effort failed following a heavy current as the pontoons carrying the rescue team was swept away and got stuck as the rapids near a waterfall where they spent a night.

The team was however rescued by a combined team of officers from the Zambia Army and Zambia Air Force. (TIMES OF ZAMBIA)

--The Zambian government has raised 65 million U.S. dollars to support girls whose parents cannot afford to pay their school fees.

Minister of Gender and Child Development Nkandu Luo said lack of money to enable girls complete their education had forced many of them into early marriages and child prostitution.

Zambia has one of the highest child marriage rates in the world with 42 percent of women aged 20-24 years married by the age of 18. (DAILY NATIO