Top news items in major Zambia media outlets

The following are news highlights in Zambia's major media outlets on Tuesday.

-- Zambian President Edgar Lungu admitted that the governing Patriotic Front (PF) failed to get the 40 percent target of women candidates in this year's parliamentary and local government elections.(The Post)

-- Persons living with albinism in Zambia have called on the government to appoint them in decision-making positions to enable them contribute more to national development.

Albinism Federation of Zambia president John Chiti bemoaned the challenges that people with albinism were faced with.

In remarks delivered during the commemoration of the International Albinism Day, he said people with albinism have been forgotten and neglected because they are the minority in society, adding that some women have been abandoned by their husbands after giving birth to children with albinism. (Times of Zambia)

-- There is no need for Zambia to import wheat because the country has enough stocks with about 100,000 tons available in the national reserves.

Minister of Agriculture Given Lubinda said the government will soon start a wheat stock verification exercise to ascertain the stocks. (Zambia Daily Mail)

-- Zambian President Edgar Lungu said he has never called or talked to any judge to influence his or her judgment in any court.

Lungu said, when he swore-in eight Court of Appeal judges, that it was unfortunate that opposition political parties had been accusing him of interfering in court rulings.

He said all the judges had been working independently contrary to allegations by some opposition political parties that he had been interfering. (Daily Nation) Endit