MATHEWS MALAZIKA Lusaka GOVERNMENT has assured farmers who supplied maize to the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) that they will be paid progressively, with the bulk of the outstanding payments expected next month following the release of K14.7 billion by the Treasury. Acting Minister of Agriculture Situmbeko Musokotwane said the funding will be sufficient to settle outstanding payments owed to farmers for maize and rice delivered to the agency. In a ministerial statement to Parliament yesterday, Dr Musokotwane said the FRA has purchased maize and rice worth approximately K18.7 billion, of which K4.1 billion has already been paid, leaving an outstanding balance of about K14.6 billion. He said the agency has purchased 2.7 million tonnes of maize from 1,850 buying depots nationwide at a cost of K18.738 billion. “This will bring the total stocks of maize held by FRA to 4.1 million metric tons, comprising 1.42 million metric tons of carry-over...

KAMPALA — A shocking account of an alleged security scare involving American reality TV star Kim Kardashian during her 2018 visit to Uganda with then-husband Kanye West has emerged, with a new biography claiming that an armed police officer pointed a gun at her head. The explosive revelation is contained in Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created the Future, a biography by journalist Jonathan Van Meter, which examines Kardashian’s rise to global fame, business empire and turbulent personal life. According to the account, Farnaz Farjam, an executive producer of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, recalled that what began as a filming trip to a remote location in Uganda allegedly descended into a frightening confrontation after West became agitated and suspicious. Farjam reportedly told Van Meter that West convinced Ugandan Police that people were attempting to drug him, prompting officers to respond with guns drawn. “He basically got the local police...

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2026: Proceedings have resumed this morning at Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court in Freetown, where laywers for the government and the opposition All Peoples’ Congress Party (APC), respectively, are making arguments about the recent decision of the country’s Speaker of parliament to declare that a vote of two-thirds of all elected members of parlaiment is not necessary to amend the Constitituion of Siera Leone. According to reports from Freetown, the former Attorney General – Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, who is acting as senior counsel for the opposition APC, has this morning been released from jail, after he was arrested in court last week on the orders of Chief Justice Komba Kamanda. Chief Justice Komba Kamanda ordered the arrest and detention of the former Attorney General – Joseph Firzgerald Kamara after a heated argument between the two on legal procedural matters, which led to the Chief Justice losing...

Climate Fund Managers announced it has secured approval for US$140 million in catalytic financing from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for Climate Investor Three (CI3), its global blended finance facility focused on industrial decarbonisation, like green hydrogen infrastructure in southern Africa. Investments in Namibia will cover hydrogen production, downstream derivatives such as green ammonia and green methanol, and the decarbonisation of hard-to-abate industries. Its diversified portfolio approach allows CI3 to invest across renewable energy generation, production, transport and end-use infrastructure, supporting the development of integrated industrial value chains. In Namibia, CI3 invests through the SDG Namibia One Fund (SDG Namibia One). Of the total approved financing, US$56 million will be allocated to SDG Namibia One, comprising US$15 million for its Development Tranche and US$41 million for its Construction Equity Tranche. The GCF financing will be provided under the Southern African Industrial Decarbonisation Facility (SIDF), GCF’s first platform dedicated to decarbonising...

Plus de sept décennies après, aucune information n’a jamais filtré sur la mort de Paul Kamba dit PK, l’un des pères-fondateurs de la rumba congolaise. Une chanson « Liwa ya Polo » d’Antoine Moundada a immortalisé la chronique de son décès. Sur les conditions de sa disparition, silence radio. En février 2013, un témoin oculaire de l’agonie du maître se souvient. Les deux présumés responsables de la mort de Paul Kamba sont Mobouro et Lokoua. ( deux musiciens de Victoria Brazza. NDLR) Tous deux, décédés à ce jour. – (Présomption d’innocence, prescription (de toute façon, étant donné la date des faits). Il ne s’agit pas d’un procès. Paul Kamba vit avec une chanteuse du groupe, Gabrielle ( issue d’une famille pieuse de Poto-Poto, tante du futur ministre feu Jean-Luc Malékat NDLR). Par la suite, son épouse Gabrielle Maléka est divorcée de lui. Paul Kamba épouse une nouvelle femme qui se rend à Fort-Rousset....

Le groupe politico-militaire nigérien hostile à la junte de Niamey se retrouve paralysé. Son chef, Mahmoud Salah, et ses hommes sont cantonnés contre leur gré dans le Sud-Ouest libyen, sur un site militaire dont ils ont l’interdiction de sortir, émise par l’Armée nationale libyenne. Le chef du ” data-trigger=”hover” data-placement=”top” data-template=” ” data-html=”true” data-container=”body” data-original-title=”Front patriotique de libération”>Front patriotique de libération au Niger (FPL), ” data-trigger=”hover” data-placement=”top” data-template=”” data-html=”true” data-container=”body” data-original-title=”Mahmoud Salah”>Mahmoud Salah, s’impatiente et souhaite recouvrer sa liberté de mouvement. Depuis la fin théorique de sa détention en juin, il est annoncé sur le théâtre des opérations à la tête de ses troupes. Or, le rebelle nigérien reste dans l’impossibilité de se déplacer et de prendre des initiatives tant politiques que militaires. Désireux de poursuivre son combat contre la junte du général ” data-trigger=”focus hover” data-placement=”top” data-template=” ” data-html=”true” data-original-title=”Abdourahamane Tiani”>Abdourahamane Tiani et en faveur de la libération de ” data-trigger=”focus hover”...

Sunday Standard Who can unmask a Facebook pseudonym? Police powers at home Recent reports indicate that two persons were taken in for questioning by Botswana police over their comments on posts published by a pseudonymous Facebook account. Versions differ on whether this amounted to an arrest, and no report identifies an offence, so this column comments no further on those individuals. But the episode raises a question every citizen should understand: when an anonymous account causes harm, how can the police find out who is behind it? This is the first of four articles in the series: Ba ba buelang dikgageng, magakabe a a ba utlwa. .ihc-locker-wrap{} There’s more to this story But to keep reading, we need you to subscribe. Investigative journalism is an indispensable part of a healthy society, but it’s also expensive to produce. We are reliant on subscriptions to fund our work, and while you can...

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House Speaker Claudius Francis The public entering Parliament is prohibited from wearing political paraphernalia. Yet political emblems on members’ lapels are treated differently. My decision to wear a political hat was a protest against that double standard. The Speaker should have addressed the applicable Standing Orders, explained his ruling and enforced a consistent standard. Applying the principle to my hat would have required him to confront its implications for political lapel emblems as well. In my view, that is the contradiction he avoided. Instead, I was repeatedly referred to as the “Leader of the United Workers Party.” The exchange became personal while the central question remained unanswered: why should citizens be held to a standard their representatives do not observe? The Speaker has since said his objection concerned wearing a cap indoors, rather than its political insignia. That explanation still leaves the original question about political symbols unresolved. The handling...