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Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

Xinhua, July 4, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Zambia's electoral body said it will deploy 70,000 people to 7,700 polling stations countrywide to conduct next month's general elections.

Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) public relations manager Cris Akufuna said the number was an increment from 45,000 people recruited during last year's presidential election.

He further said the electoral body has recruited 3,248 voter education facilitators to ensure citizens are well-equipped with the necessary information on the electoral process and the national referendum to be held alongside the August 11 polls. (ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL)

-- The Tanzania Zambia Railway (TAZARA) has introduced a master workers' council to improve operations through good labor relations.

The workers' council, which is an all-inclusive organ, comprises 83 councilors and includes membership from all structures of the company, from the bottom to the top, from Tanzania and Zambia.

Tanzania's Minister of Transport, Works and Communications Leonard Chamuribo said master workers' council have registered huge successes where they have been introduced by improving good labor relations.

He said the master workers' council will greatly improved labor relations at the railway firm co-owned by the Zambian and Tanzania governments. (TIMES OF ZAMBIA)

-- Zambian President Edgar Lungu has assured member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) that the country will hold peaceful elections because it believes in the fundamental principles of democracy.

Lungu told Mozambican President Fillipe Nyusi, who is SADC chairperson, that Zambia would endeavor to hold transparent elections as it has already done since the advent of multi-party politics in 1991.

He said SADC should ensure that it sends observes for the August 11 polls, adding that the fact that some contenders will cry foul after the polls should not mean that the elections will not be free and fair. (DAILY NATION) Endit