Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

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

-- Obese and overweight citizens are weighing down Zambia's health services as cases of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension rise mostly in urban areas, a government agency that promotes good nutrition said.

The National Food and Nutrition Commission (NFNC) said easy access to junk foods found in shopping malls in cities were contributing to expanded waistlines, with the 2013-2015 Zambia Demographic Health Survey showing that about 35 percent of women in Lusaka, the country's capital, were considered obese or overweight. (Times of Zambia)

-- A truck has ploughed into a herd of buffaloes in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park in the southern city of Livingstone, killing two of the animals.

Bovax Kachali, a wildlife warden at the park, said the incident happened on Monday night when the truck driven by a Zimbabwean national hit the animals due to over speeding. (Zambia Daily Mail)

-- Intermarket Bank Corporation, a commercial bank that was closed last year, will resume operations following a cash injection and restructuring of its shareholding, Zambia's finance minister has said. (Daily Nation)

-- A renowned Zambian human rights lawyer has asked all African governments, the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) to condemn the South African government for flirting with xenophobic killers and attackers in that country.

Michelo Hansungule, a professor of law at the Center for Human Rights, University of Pretoria in South Africa, said the South African government should be reminded that this was not how to run government in modern times and that the government needs to do more to protect all people living in that country. (The Mast) Endit