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Top news items in major Zambia media outlets

Xinhua, April 25, 2017 Adjust font size:

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

-- Zambian President Edgar Lungu has warned city mayors and other civic leaders against engaging in conflicts over authority in districts as this was detrimental to national development.

The Zambian leader warned that he will not hesitate to discipline and dismiss anyone found engaging in unproductive squabbles over authority at district level. (Zambia Daily Mail)

-- The Zambian government has completed an environment impact assessment exercise for a railway line which will join the eastern and central parts of the country.

Minister of Transport and Communication Brian Mushimba said the environmental impact assessment for the 2.3 million U.S. dollars railway project to be funded by the Chinese government has been finalized and a report has been submitted to the country's environmental regulator, the Zambia Environmental Management Authority (ZEMA). (Daily Nation)

-- Zambia's Vice President Inonge Wina has underscored the importance of peace to the country's development.

The Zambian vice president said the country won't see any meaningful development it wishes to achieve in the absence of peace and urged all citizens to ensure that peace prevailed. (The Mast) Endit