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Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

Xinhua, January 17, 2017 Adjust font size:

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

-- More than 30 Zambian women married to Malian men are stranded in that country after either being widowed or divorced.

Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba, who was in Mali to attend the Africa-France Summit, assured the women that the government was working hard to address their problems.

The women told the minister during a meeting of their anguish, with many of them unable to return to Zambia because of missing travel documents. (Times of Zambia)

--The Zambia government has expressed regret over the delay in the distribution of farming inputs to farmers under a subsidized program and promised to improve the distribution in the coming season.

The Farmer Input Support Program (FISP) has faced challenges each farming season as inputs such as fertilizer and seeds are distributed late, with the current season not an exception.

Minister of Agriculture Dora Siliya said the delay in distributing the inputs during the 206/2017 farming season was because of the general elections held in August and the uncertainty of a petition filed by opposition leaders to challenge the presidential results. (Zambia Daily Mail)

-- Zambia's ruling party has warned the country's leading opposition leader that he would be cited for treason if he continues denying that President Edgar Lungu won last year's presidential election.

Frank Bwalya, the deputy spokesperson of the Patriotic Front (PF), said Hakainde Hichilema was treading on dangerous ground by his continued statements that Lungu was in office illegally and that he was the winner of the election.

Hichilema has refused to concede defeat in the August 11 polls, claiming the vote was stolen from him. He is currently in court challenging the results. (Daily Nation)

-- The Zambian government has denied any involvement in the Zambia-Malawi maize scandal.

Minister of Agriculture Dora Siliya said the role of the government in the maize deal was just to issue an export permit to a local organization that took the maize to Malawi.

The Zambian government has faced criticism over its silence in what the Malawian media are calling maizegate scandal involving 100,000 tons of maize after reports of alleged corruption in the deal. (The Mast) Endit