aid: A report this week by Africa Confidential alleges that up to 4.7m 3.5m in aid payments may have been embezzled, according to The Guardian. Other countries including Finland, Sweden and Ireland have also suspended aid to Zambia, pending the outcome of the far-reaching investigation. The UK is among several nations to halt funds to the country. Initially, on Tuesday, Zambia's information and broadcast minister Dora Siliya had denounced the reports as misleading and false . She said that as far as the Lusaka was concerned no funding had been suspended and condemned the Africa Confidential report as false and half truths or purely untruths . But in the early hours of Wednesday, Siliya noted a change in the government's positon on her Twitter account, stating His Excellency, President Edgar Lungu has acted swiftly, relieving the Honorousable E Kabanshi as minister of community development following the misuse of funds allegations in her ministry. Until the suspension, the UK was due to contribute 47m in overseas aid to the country for the year 2018-19. Zambia ranks 37 out of 100 in the Transparency International TI corruption scale 0 being the most corrupt.
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