Police in Namwala have arrested another fugitive of the post-election violence in 2016 who has been elusive for the past five months. Southern province Police Commissioner Bonnie Kapeso says Clement Musulwe, aged 31, alias Mwanamalumbwe of Maala village in Chief Mungaila’s chiefdom in Namwala district was arrested yesterday by alert Police officers at Namwala’s Niko area. He says Mwanamalumbwe becomes ...

Government says Gender-Based Violence (GBV) has negatively influenced the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and the national economic wellbeing. Ministry of Gender Permanent Secretary Edwidge Mutale says GBV is a costly global and local issue whose effects are felt by everyone. Speaking during a discussion on the Strategic direction on GBV programming in Lusaka today, Ms. Mutale reaffirmed government’s commitment ...

The Department of Immigration has removed a total of ninety six (96) foreign nationals from the country, including eighty-seven (87) removed in a mass removal exercise conducted in Lusaka on 3rd March, 2017. Public Relations Officer Namati Nshinka says those removed during the mass removal exercise include fifty nine (59) Tanzanians, twelve (12) Congolese, seven (07) Ugandans, five (05) Rwandese, ...

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Development Minerals Coordinator for Zambia Lyapa Manza has encouraged small scale illegal miners to form groups and obtain artisan licenses. Mr. Manza says the law allows small scale miners to come together and form cooperatives and apply for licenses in development minerals and conduct their mining activities legally. He points out that sand mining is ...

The Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) has strongly condemned the acts of violence perpetrated by Patriotic Front cadres targeting Law Association of Zambia president Linda Kasonde. CCZ General Secretary Reverend Dr Suzanne Matale says the Council is saddened by the harassment of Ms Kasonde by the PF youths who besieged her office on Friday, 3rd March, 2017. Reverend Matale ...

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema has charged that the country’s judicial system is rotten. Speaking when he featured on Joy FM’s The Platform programme this morning, Mr Hichilema says the judicial system especially the Constitutional Court has demonstrated that it has no integrity. He says the country needs a functional judicial system that will deliver justice to the people of Zambia. ...

Eight people have died while 28 others have been injured in a stamped which happened at Olympic Youth Development Center in Lusaka around 06:00 hours today as a crowd jostled to enter the premises to receive food hampers. Among the dead are six female, one male adult and one male juvenile. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo says Five died on the ...

The Local Government Association of Zambia (LGAZ) has welcomed the announced increase in Councillors’ allowances from K700 to K3,000. LGAS President Christopher Kang’ombe says the increment will go a long way in motivating councilors to work even harder. Mr. Kang’ombe says the association has been engaged in consultative meetings with the local government minister from October 2016 to champion the ...

A man has been arrested for allegedly making threats against Jewish institutions, the FBI said on Friday. Juan Thompson, 31, “allegedly caused havoc, expending hundreds of hours of police and law enforcement resources”, said NYPD Commissioner James P O’Neill. He allegedly made eight threats against Jewish Community Centers (JCC), while claiming to be a former girlfriend. The centres have received ...

Government says it has no intentions, whatsoever, of coming up with a policy or legislation that will allow the withholding of salaries for women on maternity leave. In a statement, Labour Commissioner Chanda Kaziya has since dismissed the statement attributed to Civil Servants and Allied Workers Union of Zambia, Northern province Secretary Wallace Kasao that government intends to introduce a ...