Top news items in major Zambian media outlets
Xinhua, May 2, 2017 Adjust font size:
The following are news highlights in Zambia's major media outlets on Tuesday.
-- Zambian President Edgar Lungu has maintained that he will only dialogue with the country's main opposition party if it accepted last year's general elections results. (Zambia Daily Mail)
-- Zambia's biggest trade union has warned the government to ensure that a financial bailout it was seeking from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) does not spell doom for the workers.
Mulilo Nkhoma, an official from the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), said implementing the IMF economic policies without regard or concern for workers' rights will not be accepted by workers. (Daily Nation)
-- Zambia's leading opposition leader said he was forced to sleep on a cold floor for five days when he was arrested last month.
Hakainde Hichilema, who is currently in detention after being charged with treason, said he did not understand why he was being treated in an inhuman way when investigations ought to have been conducted first before arresting him. (The Mast) Endit