Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

LUSAKA, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- The following are news highlights in Zambia's major media outlets on Sunday.

-- The use of unlicensed drones in the country poses a grave threat to national security, the commander of the Zambia Air Force has said.

Zambia Air Force Commander Eric Chimense said the increasing use of drones in the country airspace was a threat to manned aircrafts. (Zambia Daily Mail)

-- Zambian President Edgar Lungu says his administration will do whatever was necessary to upgrade unplanned slums around the country in a quest to improve the living standards and bring to end perennial incidences such as cholera outbreaks.

In remarks delivered after he visited some health facilities where cholera patients were being treated in Lusaka, the country's capital, Lungu said the cholera outbreak was as a result of unplanned settlements which needed to be upgraded. (Daily Nation)

-- Zambia's tax agency has started deploying staff at the gates of mining firms as part of a monitoring system to help ascertain the value of minerals leaving the country.

Zambia Revenue Authority Commissioner General Kingsley Chanda said the idea behind the inserting of staff at the gates of mining firms was to improve in the collection of statistics of what was being produced and leaving the country. (Times of Zambia) Enditem