Refugees get K14m food
KELLY NJOMBO, Lusaka THE World Food Programme (WFP) has received K13.5 million from the United States (US) to provide cash assistance to over 16,000 asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic…
Sweden gives WFP $2 million
KELLY NJOMBO, Lusaka THE World Food Programme (WFP) has received US$2 million from Sweden to help meet the food and nutrition needs of people affected by drought in Zambia. The…
Putting food on prisoners’ tables
MOSES MAGADZA, Gobabis, Namibia
IN JUNE 2019, an inmate, Marvel, watched in fascination as John Francis Serwanga, a hydroponics technician, supervised the setting up of a hydroponics greenhouse at Gobabis Correctional Facility.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) initiated the greenhouse in close collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP) to support the facility. (more…)
More free food for pupils
PATSON PHIRI, Lusaka
A PROGRAMME of providing food to pupils is set to be implemented throughout the country following its first-class performance in 38 piloted districts and 2,700 pre- and primary school learners.
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WFP to promote legumes
ESTHER MSETEKA, Lusaka
THE World Food Programme (WFP) will in the 2017/18 farming season promote the production of legumes as a source of income and nutrition among smallholder farmers in Monze. (more…)
‘Consider water harvesting’
TRYNESS TEMBO, Choma
INDEED Zambia has not been spared by the dry spell that is affecting the Southern African region, the drought that is said to have been worsened by the most severe and longest El Nino weather condition in 35 years, as it has caused the lowest recorded rainfall between (more…)
World Food Programme aids farmers to market produce
ESTHER MSETEKA, Lusaka
THE World Food Programme (WFP), through the purchase for progress programme (P4P), has provided market worth US$12 million (more…)
Zambia gets $9.5m WFP allocation
PRISCILLA MWILA, Lusaka
THE World Food Programme (WFP) has approved a budget of US$9.2 million for the Zambia country programme.
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