Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

LUSAKA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are news highlights in Zambia's major media outlets on Sunday.

-- Israel experts have arrived in Zambia to help combat the cholera epidemic which has mainly affected Lusaka, the country's capital.

Presidential Spokesperson Amos Chanda said the five experts from Israel are in the country to offer medium and long term solutions to the challenge of safe drinking water in high density areas. (Times of Zambia)

-- Zambia saw increased levels of poaching in 2017 with about 1,200 people attested, the Department of National Parks and Wildlife has said.

Paul Zyambo, the department's director, said 75 percent of those arrested were convicted and called for concerted efforts from stakeholders to save the country's wildlife. (Zambia Daily Mail)

-- Zambia's Vice-President Inonge Wina has warned residents in Lusaka, the country's capital, to take the cholera outbreak seriously and observe high standards of hygiene if the water-born disease was to be contained.

The Zambian vice-president said when she conducted an on-the-spot check of a cleaning exercise being undertaken by the military that people should not take the epidemic lightly because it had continued claiming lives. (Daily Nation) Enditem