Five opposition political parties have announced the formation of a United Front for Democracy to champion the enactment of a new constitution before the 2016 general elections. The five political parties are the People’s party (PP), Zambia Direct Democracy Movement (ZDDM),Christian Democratic party (CDP) National Democratic party (NDP) and All People’s Congress party (APC). Speaking on behalf of the five ...

Zambia are a full house ahead of this weekend’s home friendly against Malawi with the arrival of the final four high-profile call-ups. The quartet included elite regulars from TP Mazembe led by Zambia captain Rainford Kalaba, midfielder Given Singuluma and defender Kabaso Chongo. “The guys from TP Mazembe arrived yesterday after Wednesday afternoon training,” Zambia team manager Lusekelo Kamwambi said. ...

Modern Family actress Sofia Vergara and former fiance Nick Loeb have spoken out about their frozen embryo battle on duelling morning TV show appearances. Vergara told ABC’s Good Morning America that her ex was taking advantage of her. “I don’t think it’s fair,” she said. Meanwhile on NBC’s Today Show, Loeb spoke of “moral, legal, ethical concepts” concerning lives “that ...

David Cameron says he hopes to govern for all of the UK as a BBC forecast gives the Tories 325 seats – enough to form a slender majority in the Commons. The prime minister said it was “too early to say” the final result but he hoped to form a government. Labour has been wiped out by the SNP in ...

Chief Lubunda of the Lunda speaking people of Mwense District in Luapula province says it is better to kill chiefs than to go ahead and enact a constitution with Article 296 which proposes to strip chiefs’ powers over land. The Traditional Leader says there is no point in enacting a constitution that proposes to take away powers from chiefs. Chief ...

The opposition All People’s Congress (APC) has expressed concern that President Edgar Lungu’s concentration on making appointments is becoming a distraction of what he should be focusing on. The APC also thinks that the appointments President Lungu has continued to make are also a burden on the government’s wage bill. APC president Nason Msoni says his party is of the ...

Consumer Unit and Trust Society (CUTS) says there is need to address the imbalances with regard to the actual revenue being generated by the mining sector. CUTS centre Coordinator Simon Ngona says it unfortunate that the reports for 2012 and 2013 done by the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) have continued to show that there is something wrong between government ...

Home Affairs Minister Davies Mwila has commended the Police command for heeding to his directive to clear Police stations of vehicles that have been parked for years. He says adverts have already started running in the papers to remind the owners of the vehicles to ensure that they have their vehicles removed within the stipulated period of time. Mr. Mwila ...

Political analyst Neo Simutanyi has observed that the tabling of non contentious clauses in the final draft constitution in Parliament for amendment is a long overdue undertaking. Dr. Simutanyi says while the question of a national constitution referendum remains a subject of discussion, he thinks there are some provisions in the draft constitution that can still be passed without holding ...