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Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

Xinhua, May 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Youths from Zambia's governing Patriotic Front have challenged former Vice-President Guy Scott to resign from the party on moral grounds instead of constantly issuing attacks on President Edgar Lungu and the party.

Stephen Kampyongo, the party's national youth chairperson said it was naïve for the country's former vice-president to continue speaking ill of Lungu using the media. (Times of Zambia)

-- Zambia has placed immigration officers in border areas with Namibia on high alert after some refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo decided to set off for neighboring Namibia after complaints of poor living conditions.

The refugees, who ran away from a refugee camp in western Zambia last week after being mistreated and sought refuge at a community hall, are reported to have set off on foot to Namibia. (Zambia Daily Mail)

-- Zambia's decision to seek an International Monetary Fund aid program will only result in worsening living conditions for citizens, a development expert has said.

Professor Francis Chigunta, a senior lecturer of development studies at the University of Zambia said there would have been no need to resort to an IMF intervention that will primarily result in terrible living conditions for citizens. Last week, the government announced that it had accepted an IMF program to be implemented after the August 11 general elections in the fourth quarter of 2016. (The Post)

-- The Zambian government said some millers were hoarding maize awaiting exports permits because it was more profitable to sell the commodity outside the country than locally.

Minister of Agriculture Given Lubinda however said the ministry will only consider the millers' request to export mealie meal after verifying that Zambians in all parts of the country were buying the staple food at a reduced price.

Zambia has witnessed an increase in illegal exports of maize and mealie meal to neighboring countries facing a shortage. (The Nation) Endit