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Top news items in major Zambia media outlets

Xinhua, April 30, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Zambia's Vice President Inonge Wina has advised farmers to overcome effects of climate change by embracing conservation farming.

She said conservation farming was a sure way of tackling the growing demand for maize and other crops and improve food security and farmer incomes. (DAILY NATION)

-- The Zambian government has called on the police to take all available measures to protect any form of violence against the media.

Deputy Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services Forrie Tembo has also warned political parties that the government would not tolerate any form of violence against the media.

He said when he officially launched a new radio station in southern Zambia's Choma district called Choma Maanu that it was sad that journalists have been harassed and threatened with violence when performing their duties by supporters of political parties.

Journalists have been attacked during their line of duty by supporters of various political parties. So far some of the party supporters are appearing in court after being arrested for attacking journalists. TIMES OF ZAMBIA)

-- Zambia will introduce an injectable inactivated polio vaccine in September this year to increase protection against the disease, a health ministry official has said.

Ministry of Health spokesperson Dr. Kamoto Mbewe said the government has withdrawn from all health facilities the trivalent oral polio vaccine which contains type one, two and three strains of the vaccine and replaced it with bivalent oral polio vaccine which does not contain type two.

He added that the injectable vaccine is meant to increase the protection against polio and shield Zambians from any possibility of importations from higher risk countries. (ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL)

-- Zambian President Edgar Lungu has expressed his government's commitment to deliver health care services as closer to the people as possible.

Lungu said in eastern Zambia's Chama district when he commissioned a new 150 bed capacity fully equipped hospital that the tremendous achievements recorded in the infrastructure development in the health sector are an indication of his government's unwavering commitment to improving the quality of life of Zambians. (TIMES OF ZAMBIA) Endit