Western, Zambia News

TWELVE people, including a baby, on Tuesday afternoon died on the spot in a head-on collision accident involving a Zimbabwean truck and a minibus on the Great North Road five kilometers after Mkushi Boma.

Residents of North Babylon and Deer Park have launched a petition campaign asking Suffolk County to stop allowing developers and businesses to hook up to the Southwest Sewer District before residents have the chance to do so.

By Jeff Lule, Bryan Mayanja and Suzan Akidi WITH only three days to Christmas, transport fares have almost doubled on most upcountry routes.

HARARE City Council is to undertake a human resources audit to flush out ghost workers, in an exercise modelled along the ongoing civil service audit which has sent shock waves among government employees.

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Takoradi, Dec. 13 GNA - Tragedy struck Sefwi-Wiawso in the Western Region on Friday when a female cashier of the Internal Revenue Service and one other person were killed in two separate incidents during the funeral rites of the chief of Sefwi-Wiawso, Nana Yaw Korankye.

Just four months into national election Col Joseph Bakosoro, the long aspiring candidate for western Equatoria State gubernatorial position has on Saturday disclosed his intention for running against the female appointed Governor of Western Equatoria State, Jemma Nunu Kumba.

THERE WERE sporadic gunshots at the forecourt of the Fijai Palace near Sekondi when members of the Abantua stool family at Effia, near Takoradi, allegedly besieged the palace in their attempt to forcibly install a new chief at Fijai yesterday.

Takoradi, Dec. 1, GNA - Mr Jacob Ntiamoah, Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Focal Person for HIV/AIDS, on Tuesday asked Churches to desist from compulsorily letting members undergo HIV/AIDS test before marriage.

Despite the efforts being made by the government to sentitize Ghanaians to patronize 'Made in Ghana goods', some of the big companies operating in the Western region have told The Chronicle that they can't buy local raw materials for their production because they are too expensive.

IMPECCABLE INFORMATION reaching DAILY GUIDE has it that Solomon Nkansah, alias Solo, the Western Regional Youth Organizer of the ruling National Democratic Congress since 2004, received the shock of his life when he lost his position to one Kobina Mintah Akwandoh at the party's Regional Delegates' Congress at Bogoso in the region last Thursday.

It's been a terrible year in the Dreaded Private Sector, in the public sector, not so much.

By George Kaahwa Rukirabasaija Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV Omukama of Toro has come of age.

" "Efforts by the Governor of Western Equatoria State to sensitize eligible voters have extended to Greater Mundri region," a press release from the Governor's office has said.

Loren Coleman on November 24th, 2009 The New York Times rather casually and without fanfare has confirmed a significant event in alligator-in-the-sewers history.

Troubling news has surfaced about sewage systems in the US: over the last three years, 9,400 sewers--more than 37% of the all sewers across the nation--have illegally dumped untreated human waste, hazardous chemicals, and other dangerous materials into clean rivers and lakes.

Step out of your comfort zone and take 30 minutes to see the world through another perspective, says Corinn Eckert.

Western Equatoria State Governor urged the International community to review the mandate of the peacekeeping force in southern Sudan to allow it to defend citizens from attacks by Ugandan rebels.

Namibia is not only an important market in its own right, it is becoming a strategic platform for regional growth.

LUSAKA, 16 November 2009 - Abigail Mwanashimba has been looking after her five siblings since the age of eight, when her parents died of AIDS-related illnesses.