The death of Vespers Shimuzhila a University of Zambia student who suffocated when police fired a teargas canister into her room following student demonstrations over unpaid government meal allowances and the government's reaction – Information minister Dora Siliya blamed the students – is a microcosm of the government's tin-eared response to recent criticism...
Britain's actions remained secret until Africa Confidential's report and Information Minister Dora Siliya denied that any suspension of aid had taken place...
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mansion prompted outrage which only grew when Information Minister Dora Siliya said that gifts of this kind were 'normal'...
Agricultural policy is in disarray with more money for the Farming Input Support Programme in this year's budget drawing strong criticism from the Minister of Agriculture Dora Siliya who questioned the logic of funding 'a failed project'...
On 29 November Agriculture Minister Dora Siliya went to Parliament and strongly criticised the FISP as 'a failed project' adding that the 'government is seriously re-looking at the programme'...
The appointment of easterners such as former MMD stalwarts like Dora Siliya and Vincent Mwale caused some disaffection among Bemba speakers...
Now the contenders are Energy Minister Dora Siliya Commerce Minister Margaret Mhango Mwanakatwe PF deputy secretary general Mumbi Phiri and Inonge Wina...
Lungu has appointed two of Sata's fiercest critics ex-MMD Spokesperson Dora Siliya and the party's former Vice- President Michael Kaingu as ministers of Energy and Higher Education respectively...
Kambwili who challenged Lungu for the succession as PF leader to the late Michael Sata is upset that former fierce critics of Sata such as Dora Siliya who was Information Minister in ex-President Banda's Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) government are now ensconced in the PF and taking a leading role in planning Lungu's election campaign next year...
MMD Vice-Presidents Michael Kaingu and Brian Chituwo and Spokeswoman Dora Siliya have accused him of ‘not adding value' to the once governing party...
