date:Dec 29, 2012
tonnes of maize on the local market.
Chenda said some millers who received subsidised maize from the government were selling maize meal to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) instead of supplying the local market.
Maize meal is the staple of the Zambian diet that sustains poor households, so curbs on its price could be have wide political support.
Zambia's inflation rate accelerated to 7.3 percent year-on-year in December from 6.9 percent in November, partly because of rising food