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Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

Xinhua, May 5, 2017 Adjust font size:

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

-- Zambia's Vice President Inonge Wina said the government was focused on strengthening collaboration with Civil Society Organizations to help promote programs that will uplift living standards of people. (Times of Zambia)

-- The Egyptian government has handed over cardiology equipment worth over 500,000 U.S. dollars to Zambia's biggest referral hospital.

Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya said the equipment handed over to the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) will help reduce the backlog of patients seeking cardiac services at the hospital. (Zambia Daily Mail)

-- A high-powered team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected in Zambia for a high-level conference on managing capital flows for developing and low-income countries. (Daily Nation)

-- Zambians based in South Africa on Thursday protested outside Hilton Hotel in Durban against President Edgar Lungu and his government's continued incarceration of the country's leading opposition leader over treason allegations.

The placard-carrying Zambians, who were joined by some South Africans, took advantage of Lungu's presence in that country where he is attending the World Economic Forum to demand for the immediate and unconditional release of Hakainde Hichilema who was arrested last month. (The Mast) Endit