Russia has freed jailed Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who became a symbol of resistance against Moscow. “I am free,” Savchenko told a crowd of reporters and politicians as she arrived in Kiev as part of a prisoner swap with two alleged Russian agents. She was sentenced to 22 years in jail for killing two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine, ...

Political parties and their supporters have been urged to engage in more healthy and substantive issue based campaigns to help voters make the right decision on the voting day. Youth Governance Alliance Information Officer Lonely Tatila is advising parties and their supporters to avoid peddling rumors, falsehood and deception. Mr. Tatila has also encouraged all voters to turn out in ...

Opposition UPND says  it has now finalized the list of candidates that will take part in the forthcoming generals election on its ticket. Party Secretary General Stephen Katuka says this means that names of these candidates who will contest the elections at Parliamentary and local government level will soon be announced. And Mr. Katuka has expressed concern at the manner ...

The African Leaders Initiative (YALI) says the inclusion of foreigners in the Country’s voters’ register is an indication of how porous the national registration process is . YALI does not think a foreigner can be registered as a citizen in the first place if the National Registration Department has strict scrutinizing measures to ascertain whether one is a true Zambian ...

  President Edgar Lungu has urged Zambians to guard against any conduct that threatens the peace and unity  of the country. Speaking during an Africa freedom Day state reception at State House today, President Edgar Lungu reminded the people of Zambia that the peace they  enjoy today was paid for in blood. President Lungu says the Country’s founding fathers had ...

Demonstrators outside a Donald Trump rally in New Mexico have set fire to campaign merchandise and clashed with police. Protesters threw burning T-shirts and plastic bottles at police outside the rally at a convention centre in Albuquerque. Demonstrators held banners that read “Trump is Fascist” and “We’ve heard enough”, and some waved a Mexican flag. Police responded by firing pepper ...

Opposition UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says the fight for freedom is still alive and Zambians cannot afford to be complacent. Mr. Hichilema says destructive, violent and persecutory actions now threaten the most precious of the Zambian people’s inheritances. In his African Freedom Day message Mr. Hichilema has observed that the current environment of intimidation and provocation, being seen in the ...

African finance ministers at the African Development Bank (AfDB)annual meetings in Lusaka have been urged to step up and respond to the super-El Niño events ravaging East and Southern Africa. The ministers are being reminded to be wary that over  50 million people face food shortages across Eastern and Southern Africa due to poor harvests last season and extreme El ...

The opposition UPND has expressed concern that former republican President Rupiah Banda is losing his worthiness to the nation by the manner  he is conducting himself. The UPND does not think Mr. Banda deserves to be even called a states man anymore. UPND Lubwa ward information chairperson Chisankama Mudenda says his party finds it cruel for Mr. Banda to play ...

Zambia has today Wednesday the 25th of May joined the rest of Africa in commemorating African Freedom Day which falls on this day annually. This year’s Africa Freedom Day is being commemorated under the theme “celebrating the role of women in the liberation struggles”. And President Edgar Lungu this morning led defense chiefs and foreign dignitaries in laying wreaths at ...