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PURSUING JUSTICE AND EQUITY WITH INTEGRITY
ZAMBIA, IMF TALK Price K10
Vol. 6. Issue 2574
Thursday April 16, 2020
By BUUMBA CHIMBULU and IRVIN MUYUMBWA
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ORMAL meetings between Government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were concluded on Thursday last week. The teleconference meetings which were held for a week were successfully conducted and concluded on Thursday last week. According to an official from the Ministry of Finance, the meetings discussed among others the impact COVID-19 will have on revenue collection and the Zambian economy.
…crucial talks already concluded. Story on page 3 Kenyans P13 Lungu tested, face arrest passed test for not Kafue placed on lockdown
‘We are not in a crisis’
By SILUMESI MALUMO
charged. And Zambia’s envoy to AMBIA is not in a Ethiopia Emmanuel Mwamba crisis and any at- has said the country’s Gross This follows (GDB) the ratioincrease in CovtemptCHIYANZO to stampede Domestic Product By AARON id-19 cases in the into an International shows that the country is not in adistrict after the of the re58-year-old man GOVERNMENT has prorestricted debt crisis daughter but in an economic Monetary Fund (IMF) Kafue who died movements in and cession as from growth is projected to at the Univergramme is a fallacy thatout willof Kafue sity Teaching Hospital last Thursday pave to way massfall testto 2 percent from 3.2 percent. betoday of no to benefit thefor couningFormer of Covid-19 declaring it tested positive and another person try, Deputyafter Minister STORY ON PAGE 3 from the area. To Page 3. infected area. ofan Finance Mbita Chitala has
Z Covid-19 positive cases by days
Covid-19 update Cases
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Deaths
wearing masks
By IRVIN MUYUMBWA
48 Cases
Discharged
• 48 total cases recorded • 1, 846 tested • 3 new case in the last 24hours • 16 active cases
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Ministry of Health briefing by days
INDEX Home News P. 2,4 & 5
Business P. 6
E.Business P. 7
Letters P. 8
KENYANS have face arrest for walking in public without a face mask, Daily Nation Kenya reports. “You will be arrested from today should you be found in public without a face mask. That is the message to Kenyans who have been taking lightly the requirement of wearing masks as one of the precautions against the spread of coronavirus,” the newspaper reports. And a local NonGovernmental Organisation PAGE 3
News of the World P.15
Sports News P.16