The Zambia News and Information Services is a department of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services.  It came into being in 2005 following the merger of the Zambia News Agency (ZANA) and the Zambia Information Services (ZIS), as part of the restructuring exercise of the Zambia Public Service.

Like ZANA its predecessor, ZANIS reflects the Zambian development activities taking place around the country.  It services the Zambian media as subscribers and fills in the gap left by the commercially inclined and urban concentrated media.

ZANIS is the only mainstream media organisation producing the widest possible professional news coverage through a well trained cadre of Journalists stationed in regional and district offices.  The majority of these regional offices are in rural Zambia where 70 percent of the country’s population is concentrated.

Guided by nothing else but professionalism, ZANIS provides credible news to the Zambian public by accessing news from other World news agencies like Xinhua (Chinese News Agency), the non aligned news network based in Malaysia, Press Trust of India (PTI) and other continental news agencies like Zimbabwe's NewZiana and Namibia Press Agency (Nampa) inter alia.

 ZANIS provides news and in depth articles from the African perspective to the Zambian public abroad and the international community by internet.  It also cooperates with national news agencies in Africa with which it has mutual news exchange agreement.

The headquarters of the agency is in Lusaka while regional offices are at Kabwe (Central Province),  Ndola (Copperbelt Province), Mansa (Luapula Province), Kasama (Northern Province, Chipata (Eastern Province), Livingstone (Southern Province), Mongu (Western Province) and Solwezi (North Western Province).

Our website (www.zanis.org.zm), through various links shows the prominent features in these regions in which our reporters carry out their reporting activities in such fields as tourism, business, science and technology, agriculture, sport, environment, culture and gender and so on.

With modern Information Communication Technology, ZANIS is a media-mix producer of news text, photographs, radio and TV footage and video documentaries on any subject in English and provides information on past events in its archives.
              
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