Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

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

-- The Zambian government said it will support and promote a more flexible visa regime that will ease the movement of economic actors across the borders of member countries of the Tripartite Free Trade Area.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Stephen Kampyongo said the government was committed to adopting and promoting visa regimes that would help the region reap the benefits of integration without compromising security. (Zambia Daily Mail)

-- Zambia's revenue collection agency intends to embark on a vigorous inspection exercise on companies that were in the habit of evading tax in order to increase revenue collection.

Zambia Revenue Authority commissioner general Kingsley Chanda said the agency will start next month conducting strategic enforcement activities and audits to ensure that companies that were not in the tax net were brought to the net in a bid to recover contributions. (Daily Nation)

-- Police have summoned Zambia's main opposition leader and his vice for allegedly holding illegal meetings in Luanshya town in the Copperbelt Province.

The police have summoned Hakainde Hichilema, leader of the United Party for National Development and his vice Geoffrey Mwamba over a meeting they held with their supporters.

The opposition leaders were in the province to visit some of their supporters who were arrested during last month's general elections but prison authorities stopped them from seeing their supporters. (The Post) Endit