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Namibia: Namibia Bans Food Imports From Zambia
New Era, 10 January 2018
The Namibian government has resolved to provisionally ban the importation of all perishable food, fruits, unprocessed food and water from neighbouring Zambia - where there is a… Read more »
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Namibia: Zambian Food Import Ban Claims First Victims in Namibia
New Era, 10 January 2018
The cholera outbreak in Zambia and the food import ban implemented by Namibia with effect from Monday this week means Namibian fish traders will not be allowed to import boxes of… Read more »
Namibia Bans Zambian Food Imports Over Cholera Outbreak
Namibian fish traders have said the ban adversely affected their businesses as it prevents them from importing boxes of frozen fish from the north-eastern neighbouring country. The Zambian government has escalated its efforts to contain the epidemic.
InFocus
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Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya has announced at a press briefing in Lusaka that vaccination would first be administered in cholera epicentres, Chipata and Kanyama townships. Read more »
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President Edgar Lungu has dispatched the military to contain an outbreak of cholera which has killed 41 people in Lusaka and affected more than 1,500 others since September 2017. Read more »
