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Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

Xinhua, September 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Zambian President Edgar Lungu said citizens living abroad who may have renounced their citizenship will get it back once formalities for the implementation of dual citizenship clause in the amended constitution are finalized.

Lungu said when he addressed Zambians living in the United States that no one will be punished for having renounced the country's citizenship unless they did so with ill-motives.

The Zambian leader said the government was currently working on modalities for the implementation of the dual citizenship. (Zambia Daily Mail)

-- Two top officials from a Zambian association of farmers at the center of misappropriation of donor funds have been arrested and charged in connection with the fraud.

Early this month, Sweden and Finland demanded for refunds from the Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) after a second audit of the association revealed glaring misappropriation of donor funds.

Kingsley Kaswende, the association's spokesperson said the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) on Monday arrested and charged Evelyn Nguleka, the association's president, and chief executive officer Ndambo Ndambo in connection with the fraud. (Daily Nation)

-- The Zambian government is seriously considering relocating the country's capital city in view of anticipated congestions in Lusaka, the current capital.

Minister of National Planning Lucky Mulusa said the government will soon start consulting over the creation of a new capital city and that the decision had been necessitated by the massive congestion that currently faces Lusaka. (Times of Zambia) Endit