People’s Party President Mike Mulongoti doubts Patriotic Front Members of Parliament will support the 50%+1 vote clause in the constitutional amendment. Mr. Mulongoti says the Patriotic Front is scared of the 50%+1 vote threshold for the winning presidential candidate. He says the majority of PF Members of Parliament do not understand the importance of having the 50%+1 vote clause. Mr. ...

Andy White, the Scottish studio session musician who played the drums on Love Me Do and other early tracks by The Beatles, has died in New Jersey. According to his family, the 85-year-old died on Monday following a stroke. White was chosen ahead of Ringo Starr in September 1962 to play drums on the single version of Love Me Do ...

Sweden has announced the introduction of temporary border checks to control the flow of migrants into the country. Swedish Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said the step had been decided after police warned a surge in new arrivals posed a threat to public order. The controls will come into effect from midday local time on Thursday and will last initially for ...

Financial analyst Mambo Hamaundu has described as worrisome the rapid depreciation of the Kwacha in the last few days. He has observed that there could be something the country is not doing right in efforts to stabilize the kwacha. Mr. Hamaundu says if things are being done correctly, the kwacha would not be depreciating at the rate it is losing ...

The opposition Alliance for Development and Democracy (ADD) has accused Government of concealing the magnitude of the problem in the mining industry. ADD President Charles Milupi says he suspects government has also realized that there is very little it can do about the problem in the mining industry. He notes that this is evidenced by how President Edgar Lungu has ...