Zambia

Stakeholders are giving out their expectations ahead of the 2023 National Budget presentation to Parliament set for this Friday, 30th September, 2022. The Government has been urged to allocate more funding to Agriculture Research Centres in the 2023 national budget. Zambians United for Sustainable Development (ZUSD) President Lazarus Chisela said the budget for 2022 did […]

Minister of Health Syvia T Masebo has said Africa is in dire need of a Continental Framework for Mortality Surveillance to guide member states in the planning and implementation of their Mortality surveillance programs. Ms. Masebo said the Continental Framework for Mortality Surveillance will also fast track the availability of good quality and timely mortality […]

Chipolopolo stand – in coach Moses Sichone is hoping to close their two-match tour of Mali with a positive result this evening in Bamako. Zambia lost the first match 1-0 on Friday just 24 hours before the official news rolled in that absent coach Aljosa Asanovic had quit the job over unpaid dues. But assistant […]

The Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) says the prevailing economic stability in the country is encouraging private sector participation in investing in Zambia. ZDA acting Director General Albert Halwampa says the country has been seeing more actualized investment since last year. Mr. Halwampa stated that a country can only thrive economically when investment pledges are turned into […]

Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Gray Nkombo has described the death of late Mwense Council Chairperson, Humphrey Kapapula as painful. Mr. Nkombo said government is saddened by the loss of a promising young leader who diligently worked to serve the people of Mwense. The Minister thanked God for the life of the late […]

The government says it will meet the burial expenses for the 12 accident victims who died in a fatal road accident that occurred on Saturday along the junction of the University of Zambia (UNZA) Great East Road Campus. The death toll has since risen to 12 according to the Minister of Water Development and Sanitation […]

The Zambian Roads and Highway Safety Group (ZRHSG) has questioned the government on which office or institution is responsible in ensuring that roads and highways are kept accident free. This came to light after the two recent accidents that happened in Great East Road Lusaka near the University of Zambia UNZA claiming 11 lives and […]

Minister of Water Development and Sanitation Mike Mposha has warned boards of directors of Water Utility companies against interfering in the day-to-day running of the institutions. Speaking during the consultative meeting on the revised corporate governance guidelines and the concept note for the water utility platform at the Southern Sun Hotel in Lusaka, Mr Mposha […]

The Lusaka City Council (LCC) has handed over a total number of 555 desks to various schools in Matero Constituency procured using the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). 300 desks were acquired for Matero Boys Secondary School, 100 for Nelson Mandela Secondary School, meanwhile,105 were procured for George Central Primary School and 50 for Lilanda Combined […]

Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP) has commended the government through the Ministry of Transport and Logistics for its decision to re-introduce Police road-blocks in view of the many fatal accidents that have occurred in the past few days. Patriots For Economic Progress (PeP) President Sean Tembo said that their Party has welcomed the statement issued […]

By Charles Mwewa The two greatest weapons against Africans’ interests are their disunity and failure to develop and harness their own technologies. And their greatest weapon for both is in their unity. Any forces that have overcome Africans had used this dual weaponry very efficiently. Beginning with slavery when Africans where provided with no choice […]

It is official; Aljosa Asanovic and FAZ have parted ways in one of the briefest Chipolopolo reigns by a foreign coach in the new millennium. The Croatian quit this week following a back-and-forth exchange with FAZ over pay and his month long absence from work away from Zambia. “Following weeks of fruitless efforts to get […]

Europe-based Zambia Women Team striker Rachael Kundananji has expressed her excitement after being recalled to the Shepolopolo squad. Zambia coach Bruce Mwape has named Kundananji in his 32-member provisional squad for next month’s international friendly match against Netherlands. The Madrid CFF forward missed the Africa Cup and the COSAFA Women’s Cup which Zambia won recently […]

The National Association for Small Holder Farmers has said that the failure of the government to follow the agriculture calendar has an adverse impact on the country’s food security. Association Deputy Executive Director Noel Simukonde observes that most farmers struggle to remain afloat ahead of the 2022/2023 farming season due to delayed payments by the […]

The government has commended various stakeholders for providing a platform for farmers in Mpika district to have direct interaction with the suppliers. The commendation was made by Mpika District Commissioner, David Siame, during the district agri-marketing and technology fair held at Farmers Training Centre in Mpika. The agri-marketing and technology fair was organised by the […]

Political and Socio Anthropologist James Musonda has said that intentions to have the Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) liquidation case withdrawn from the court will amount to nothing if the government does not get 50 per cent shares in KCM and impose more controls on Vedanta. In July this year, mines minister Paul Kabuswe directed the […]

The opposition Economic Front is urging president Hakainde Hichilema to provide his Ministers and Permanent Secretaries with a proper policy document that speaks to his vision for Zambia’s social and economic development to avoid the said officials pulling in different directions. President Hichilema recently complained that he has noted a trend where his ministers and […]

PART 1: FERTILIZER PROCUREMENT By Sean Tembo – PeP President 1. If a regime is going to steal from the Zambian people on a large scale, there are basically four key areas where such theft can be perpetrated, with little or no notice from the citizens. Three of the four areas are on the expenditure […]

Police have detained a 40-year-old man of Chililabombwe for swindling a job seeker out of K13, 000 after being on the run for over a year. Mr. Patrick Chola Mabula of Lubengele in Chililabombwe is in police custody for obtaining money from Lazarous Chanda, aged-24 of Kakoso South in Chililabombwe on pretext that he would […]

Manda Hill Police post recorded a Fatal Road Accident that involved eleven fatalities(Ten died on the spot and one at the hospital). The accident involved a male driver Warrant Officer Class Two Spoon who was driving a Zambia National Service Low bed truck registration number ZNS 666F from West to East whose damage was front […]