Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

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

-- A mining firm in Zambia says it will challenge the jurisdiction of the English court to hear and adjudicate a matter where residents of a mining town in the Copperbelt Province have sued it for compensation for polluting the environment.

A United Kingdom High Court judge has agreed and allowed 1, 826 residents of Chingola town to take legal action against London-listed Vedanta Resources Plc and its Zambian subsidiary, Konkola Copper Mines. The residents claim they have been affected by the company's pollution of their drinking water. (ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL)

-- An organization representing the interest of women has expressed concern on the low number of women participating in Zambia's general elections to be held in August this year.

Zambia National Women's Lobby provincial board member in charge of Central Province Rebecca Museteka said this was a clear demonstration of selfishness among male politicians in the country. (THE POST)

-- Zambia's main opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema said he was not desperate to become president of the country because he was not in politics to get benefits but to serve people.

Hichilema, who is standing in the August 11 polls, said it was wrong for people to suggest that he should be replaced as leader of the main opposition United Party for National Development (UPND), in an event he loses the election.(DAILY NATION) Endit