August 2012

[Analyst]The Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism adopts a routine it calls regular press briefings at its head office on Capitol Hill; forums that allow public functionaries to face the media and the public and report on their achievements as well as their position on topical issues and controversies that relate to their assigned ministries and agencies. When the country’s Works minister yesterday had ended his term of “press briefing,” Information Minister Lewis Brown confessed

[Times of Zambia]THE Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) has invited comments on an environmental impact assessment report on the proposed construction of the US$500 million railway line from Chingola to Lumwana by North-West Railway Company.

[Sudan Tribune]Bentiu -Elderly members of the community in South Sudan's Unity State are raising funds to build schools for children who lose their parents during the civil war that led to South Sudan's independence last year.

[ANGOP]Luanda -The minister of State for Economic Co-ordination, Manuel Vicente, inaugurated last Wednesday, in Luanda, the first stage of the Higher Institute for Information Technologies, located in Rangel Municipality.

[ANGOP]Dundo -The air terminal building of Dundo airport, northeastern Lunda-Norte province, whose works are estimated to have cost Usd 43 million was inaugurated on Tuesday, by the minister of Transports, Augusto Tomá, Angop witnessed.

[ANGOP]Malanje -The minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, Afonso Pedro Canga, on Tuesday inaugurated in Cacuso municipality, northern Malanje province, administrative and technological infrastructures of the Pedras Negras farm, Angop learnt.

[Daily Trust]The FCT Administration (FCTA) Tuesday said it will do everything possible to complete the on-going rehabilitation and expansion of the Umaru Musa Yar'Adua Expressway (Airport Road) and the Kubwa express way by 2013.

[This Day]The Federal Government has approved the sum of N40 billion for the completion of the stalled Gurara and Ilesha dam projects.

[Times of Zambia]SPORTS Minister Chishimba Kambwili has said construction of a modern stadium in Livingstone will start in January 2013 once all formalities are completed.

[New Era]The rehabilitation of the Aus-Lüderitz railway line and the upgrading of the Lüderitz railway station finally got back on track in June this year, after a 14-year delay caused mainly by financial constraints.

[SAnews.gov.za]Pretoria -Gauteng Roads and Transport MEC Ismail Vadi has expressed satisfaction with the progress being made to fix a sink hole on the Ben Schoeman freeway, south of Jean Avenue in Centurion.

[ANGOP]Luanda -The President of the Republic, José Eduardo dos Santos, this afternoon unveiled a child development centre dubbed Nova Esperança, in Luanda's Cacuaco Municipality, Angop has learnt.

[ANGOP]Luanda -The facelift project of Luanda new marginal avenue, worth about 36 billion Kwanzas, was inaugurated on Tuesday, in a ceremony chaired by the President of the Republic, José Eduardo dos Santos, Angop has learnt.

[ANGOP]Luanda -The Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, inaugurated this Tuesday the Sambizanga Municipal Hospital, in Luanda, with the capacity for 75 beds.