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Top news items in major Zambia media outlets

Xinhua,May 22, 2018 Adjust font size:

LUSAKA, May 21 (Xinhua) -- The following are news highlights in Zambia's major media outlets on Monday.

-- The Zambian government will soon unveil a team of investors to construct more than 2 million housing units to meet its goal of reducing the number of people living in slums in Lusaka, the country's capital, from 70 percent to less than 35 percent by 2021.(Times of Zambia)

-- The Swedish government has given dairy farmers in Zambia 2 million U.S. dollars for the implementation of a digital information system, which will allow the farmers develop a digital smallholder dairy farmer aggregation transaction and information management platform.(Daily Nation)

-- Substandard and falsified drugs that were circulating in African states posed a threat to public health, harmed patients an undermined confidence in health system, a senior Zambian government official has said. (The Mast) Enditem