Justice Minister Edgar Lungu says the allocation of K29 million to the constitution making process in the 2015 budget is a clear indication that government is desirous to pursuing the cause of enacting a new constitution. Responding to concerns by stakeholders that the amount allocated to the constitution making process in the 2015 budget is not enough, Mr. Lungu has ...

Government has been hailed for showing leadership by coming out in the open about President Michael Sata’s health. In a statement issued yesterday, the President’s special assistant for Press and Public Relations George Chellah disclosed that President Sata left the country for medical checkup on Sunday 19th October in the company of some family members to unknown destination abroad. Speaking ...

Christophe de Margerie, the chief executive of French oil company Total, has died in an air crash in Moscow. His corporate jet collided with a snow plough and then was engulfed in flames. All four people on board were killed. The driver of the snow plough was drunk, according to Russian investigators. Mr de Margerie, 63, had been chief executive ...

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been jailed for five years for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Judge Thokozile Masipa, issuing the ruling in court in Pretoria, also gave Pistorius a three-year suspended sentence for a firearms charge. The prosecution had called for a minimum 10-year sentence; the defence for community service and house arrest. Pistorius was convicted of culpable ...