Joint Motion for a Resolution on Zambia
Particularly the case of Hakainde Hichilema, adopted in the Plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 18 May 2017.
Joint Motion for a Resolution
Energy Efficiency Award 2017: Companies can apply now
The international energy efficiency competition of the Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena) - German Energy Agency has the motto "The Makers of Energy Transition " this year. Private and public companies are invited to submit their projects and concepts by 15 July 2017, which have a special impact on the practical implementation of the energy conversion. You can find all the information you need to enter for free at
www.EnergyEfficiencyAward.de - Klick: English Version
BASF Zambia, in collaboration with BASF Holdings South Africa, recently donated K100,000 towards science education programmes for children at the Bauleni Special Needs School in Lusaka, Zambia.
Bauleni Special Needs Project
Free press is vital for having a democracy that works. Today we celebrate the World Press Freedom Day in a difficult context for journalism. Freedom of expression and Freedom of the press are under increasing attacks around the world.
World Press Freedom Day
One year on: ABB supports training for a new generation of young engineers in Zambia
February 24, 2017 - Zambia needs more power technology specialists to support the country’s infrastructure development. The German development finance institution DEG has provided funding, collaborating with ABB, to train a new generation of engineers.
ABB Zambia
The first German-African Business Summit took place in Berlin in September 2015 and gave some 400 participants from the worlds of business and politics from Germany and Africa the opportunity to discuss Africa’s prospects and potential and to make new contacts. The conference will be held in Africa for the first time from 8 to 10 February 2017.
Second German-African Business Summit (GABS) Nairobi, 8 - 10 February 2017
''Art for me is an essential discipline inseparable from my life. When I am in the studio, I am transfixed into a space I call an aesthetic void, where time and space freeze, leaving only me and the subject matter.''
Elliot Ngosa
As part of the technical cooperation between Germany and Zambia, the German Embassy in Lusaka has supported the St. Luke’s Mission Hospital through the drilling of a borehole, as well as the installation of a solar pump and a tank.
St. Luke’s Mission Hospital
Bilateral negotiations on development cooperation took place in Berlin from the 7th to 8th of December 2016 between the Government of the Republic of Zambia and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Germany committed round about 100 million Euros to support Zambia, inter alia in the areas of good governance, renewable energies, and water and sanitation.
Successful German-Zambian Intergovernmental Negotiations 2016
Germany’s G20 presidency
Germany will be holding the presidency of the G20 in 2017. The summit of the heads of state and government and representatives of international organisations will be held in Hamburg on 7 and 8 July 2017. A number of G20 ministers’ conferences are scheduled to take place prior to this. The G20 Foreign Ministers met in Bonn on 16 and 17 February 2017. The summit and ministers’ meetings will provide an opportunity to discuss current international challenges and to raise awareness of new issues in international affairs.
Further information is available on the following webpages:
The German Embassy in Zambia has donated sports equipment to seven different sports associations from Lusaka and surrounding areas.
The donation of sports equipment is part of Germany’s International Sports Promotion programmes, which aims to support the further development of sport activities in our partner countries, such as Zambia.
Donation of Sports Equipment
Germany supports the Zambian Decentralisation Process with 90 million Kwacha
German Ambassador Achim Burkart and Minister of Local Government Vincent Mwale have laid the cornerstone for the rehabilitation and expansion of the Chalimbana Local Government Training Institute in a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday, 8th of November.
Groundbreaking Ceremony at Chalimbana Local Government Training Institute
Germany’s OSCE Chairmanship in 2016 – “Renewing dialogue, rebuilding trust, restoring security”
On 1 January 2016 Germany has assumed the Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co‑operation in Europe (OSCE) and is therefore be responsible for steering the Organization safely through the stormy tides of crises and challenges in 2016. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has presented the details of the Chairmanship’s programme to the 57 OSCE participating States in Vienna on 14 January 2016.
Further information is available on the following websites:
Germany is seeking to become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Former Foreign Minister Steinmeier announced the candidacy for 2019/20 in Hamburg on Monday (27 June). The elections are expected to take place at the General Assembly in June 2018.
Germany’s candidacy on the Security Council
In June 2016 the Bavarian town of Wunsiedel was honored as “Energy Municipality of the Month” by the Renewable Energies Agency. The town already reached its self-chosen climate and energy goals for 2020 this year.
Energy Municipality of the Month
Five hundred years ago, on 31 October 1517, legend has it that theology professor Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg.
The posting of these theses in Wittenberg marks the beginning of the Reformation. The far reaching theological, cultural and political consequences of the Reformation make its anniversary in 2017 not only a church affair, but a central global event in cultural history.
Anniversary of the Reformation
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Cultural Preservation – A Program of the German Foreign Ministry
Culture has many facets and functions, expressed in stories, buildings and other forms. Preserving cultural goods or resurrecting them after they’ve been destroyed is the goal oft he German Foreign Ministry’s Cultural Preservation Program. Since 1981, it has supported projects in 144 countries.
German Embassy