Newly appointed UPND Vice President Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba says he will not relinquish his Kasama Central parliamentary seat following his move to join the opposition UPND. Mr. Mwamba told a media briefing in Lusaka this afternoon that for as long as opposition MPs working with the PF government do not quit their parliamentary seats, he will also not relinquish his ...

Patriotic Front Shibuyunji district Chairperson Joseph Kasonde says party members engaging in acts of violence are soiling the name of the party. Mr Kasonde says there is need for members of the ruling party to remain peaceful and protect the party’s integrity. He has called on party members in Shibuyuni to stay away from any form of violence. Mr Kasonde ...

Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini says there is an urgent need for Southern African Development Community (SADC) governments to take a lead in the mobilization of domestic funding for HIV and AIDS. Speaking when he opened an orientation workshop for Members of Parliament on the implementation of regional, continental and international commitments on HIV and AIDS financing project ...

Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) President Edith Nawakwi says it is the PF Government which needs Alangizi and not her. Ms. Nawakwi says she expects women in the PF government to voice out against the misplaced pardoning of convicted child defiler Clifford Dimba alias General Kanene instead of them concentrating on attacking her. She says the women in government ...

Four Chelsea fans accused of refusing to allow a black man on to the Paris Metro have been banned from attending football matches for up to five years. Richard Barklie, from Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, and Joshua Parsons and William Simpson, both from Surrey, were banned for five years at Stratford Magistrates’ Court. Jordan Munday, from Sidcup in Kent, was banned ...

Bill Cosby’s lawyers claim he has been damaged by “inaccurate” media reports, after it was revealed he had obtained sedatives to give to women before sex. The star’s admission came in recently-unsealed documents from a 2005 civil case, in which Andrea Constand accused the star of drugging and molesting her. In their first comment since the papers were made public ...

What may be the world’s oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham. Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in existence. The pages of the Muslim holy text had remained unrecognised in the university library for almost a century. The British Library’s expert on ...

MMD President Nevers Mumba says the tension that has been created between the people of Southern Province and the Patriotic Front (PF) Government could have been avoided had President Edgar Lungu demonstrated strong leadership and if all the leaders in the PF genuinely towed the much talked about “One Zambia, One Nation” ideology. Speaking in Luangwa yesterday during meetings with ...

The Drug Enforcement Commission has arrested 2,510 people countrywide in the first half of the year for various drug and money laundering offences. Commission Public Relations Officer Theresa Katongo says as at the end of June 2015, the Commission had arrested 2,470 and convicted 949 people for various drug offences. Ms Katongo in a statement says the Commission had also ...

The Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) says government is being very hypocritical over its excuse that it has no financial resources to hold a referendum on the constitution following the revelation that it has money to increase salaries for parliamentarians and ministers. FODEP Executive Director MacDonald Chipenzi in a statement says it is amazing how government can, today, claim to ...