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Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

Xinhua, June 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Zambian President Edgar Lungu has opened a social media Internet application that will enable him to share information with Zambians.

The platform will also enable some members of the public to meet the Zambian leader in person and discuss various matters. (Times of Zambia)

-- Zambian workers at a cement manufacturing plant owned by Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, staged protests demanding improved conditions of service.

Workers at Dangote Industries situated in Masaiti district in the Copperbelt Province fought running battles with the police on Wednesday. The workers are demanding, among other things, that management endorses their application to be unionized and complained that their salaries were too low. Ten workers were in the process picked by police. (The Post)

-- Zambia's governing party has refuted reports that President Edgar Lungu has taken a break and suspended campaigns.

An email message purported to be from Patriotic Front (PF) Secretary-general Davies Chama went viral on social media on Wednesday in which he was quoted as telling party supporters that Lungu has decided to suspend his campaigns. Zambia will hold presidential, parliamentary and local government polls on August 11. (Daily Nation) Endit