Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

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

-- Cholera has broken out in northern Zambia's Chiengi district with 11 cases recorded so far, health authorities have conformed.

Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya said the water-borne disease has broken out at a fishing camp in the outskirts of the district although no death have been recorded so far.

In 2013, cholera broke out in the same district with a total of 64 people diagnosed while three people died. (Zambia Daily Mail)

-- The Zambian government is expected to sign an entrepreneurship fund with the African Development Bank (AfDB) worth 75 million U.S. dollars.

Minister of Finance Felix Mutati said the fund, to be signed before the end of this month, would purely be used to support entrepreneurs in growing their businesses. (Daily Nation)

-- The International Press Institute (IPI) has expressed concern over the continued persecution of renowned Zambian journalist Fred M'membe, saying it was a politically-motivated attempt to silence the independent media in the country. (The Mast) Endit