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  2 OUT 5 PEOPLE WORLDWIDE CAN NOT AFFORD A HEALTHY DIET  . ...Urgent action is needed to address food insecurity in 2022. By Alfonso Kasongo With the rising threats on World food security, the World Bank has estimated that around 3 billion people in the world can not afford a healthy diet, the situation it said needed quick remedy.  The Bank discloses that 2 out of 5 people currently are unable to have a healthy diet reiterating an urgent action to address food insecurity in 2022. The World financial institution notes that the current food situation is slowly infringing people their basic need. "Food security is a basic human need, but two in five people – or around 3 billion citizens of our planet – cannot afford a healthy diet." The Bank, however, observes that diet costs have risen in recent months, with food price inflation above 5% in many countries as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate shocks, the war in Ukraine among many challenging other factors. To this...

PAN AFRICAN CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE DATES ZAMBIA By Alfonso Kasongo  The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) has visited Zambia to monitor the Climate and Environmental programmes and appreciate various challenges that Zambia Climate Change Network (ZCCN) is faced with. Head of delegation FATHYA ABDULMAJIB who is PACJA Head of Finance held a meeting with ZCCN and its Partners to discuss various issues among them how to further enhance the existing partnerships so as to win the fight against climate change. Ms. ABDULMAJIB has pledged among other things increase the financing of existing Youth programmers to enhance youth participation in the just fight.  Meanwhile Ms. ABDULMAJIB   has commended ZCCN for the Young Digital Activists (YDAs) describing the initiative as a great step in information dissemination on climate change. And ZCCN National Coordinator Mr. Steven Nyirenda has thanked PACJA for the visit as he described it as an honor. Mr. Nyirenda adds th...

WORLD BANK CLASSIFIES ZAMBIA AS LOW INCOME COUNTRY  By Alfonso Kasongo  The World Bank has relegated Zambia to a low income country status from the lower-middle income country for 2023 financial year.  This has been necessitated by the destruction of Gross National Income (GNI) per Capita estimates recorded in 2021. GNI Per Capita is the dollar value of a country's final income, or GNI divided by its population. A country's GNI is based upon the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which measures the value of all goods and services produced within the country's physical territory.  Zambia's 6th Reublican President Edgar Lungu handing over instruments of power to 7th President Hakainde Hichilema at Heroes Stadium in Lusaka during the latter's inauguration in 2021                 Low-income countries,are synonymous with undeveloped, developing countries and are those which have the weakest economies when evaluated by the World ...