Melania Trump is suing a British newspaper and a US blogger for $150m (£114m) over allegations she was a sex worker in the 1990s, her lawyer says. The Daily Mail suggested Mrs Trump may have worked as a part-time escort in New York, and met husband Donald Trump, who is now running for the White House, earlier than previously reported. ...

The opposition UPND says its losing parliamentary candidates who have withdrawn their election petitions and defected to the ruling Patriotic Front are practicing politics of the belly. UPND Secretary General Stephen Katuka says such decisions are unreasonable because they do not add any value to society. Mr. Katuka has wondered why they filed the petitions in the first place if ...

Political Scientist Chris Zimba says the number of parliamentary petitions filed in the High Court is an indication that the country’s democracy is growing. Mr. Zimba also shows increased stakeholder and political trust in the country’s judicial system. He however, notes that there many lessons that the country should draw from the increase in the number of election petitions being ...

The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) says FDD President Edith Nawakwi is entitled to her opinion which it respects. Reacting to Ms Nawakwi’s call for ECZ to be disbanded, ECZ Public Relations Manager Crispin Akufuna says people should not forget that August elections were not the first elections the commission conducted. He says the Commission the remains the same electoral ...