The Financial Intelligence Centre received a total of 719 suspicious transactions and spontaneous disclosures, the 2016 Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing trends has revealed. The report reveals that in the same year, although cases of suspected corruption formed only 6% of the number of cases disseminated, the amount involved was significant and constituted 75% of the value of all disseminated ...

International Lbour Organisation (ILO) Director General Guy Ryder says there is need to create 600 million new jobs worldwide by 2030 if the UN development agenda’s goal of decent work for all is to be attained. He says there are currently 200 million unemployed people worldwide. And Mr Ryder says understanding the future of work is critical to constructing the ...

Lawyers representing incarcerated UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema will not go ahead to seek judicial review on the Certificate of Committal of the offence of treason he stands charged. UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma says it was not his party’s intention in the first place to take the judicial review route. Mr. Kakoma says this is why his party’s lawyers have left ...

Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) Executive Director Mweenge Chimfwembe has described as toxic President Edgar Lungu’s statement that donors can take their aid if they want. Mr. Chimfwembe has advised President Lungu to learn to engage donors whenever he is aggrieved by their statements than rushing to issue statements that have the potential to tarnish the country’s name. He says ...

The ruling Patriotic Front says President Edgar Lungu is justified to ask diplomats to desist from interfering with the governance of the country. PF Deputy Spokesperson Frank Bwalya says this is whether their countries have been supporting Zambia through financial support or not. Mr. Bwalya says the ruling PF holds the view that allowing diplomats to meddle in the country’s ...

THE DAY REPLAYED – The Fifa U-20 World Cup Korea Republic 2017 group stage came to a tense climax as the last 16 was finally confirmed. Group F was wide open going into the final day, with a single goal in both games able to have completely transformed the shape of the first knockout round. While there was joy for ...

French President Emmanuel Macron will shortly hold talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin near Paris, amid tensions over the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. They will meet at the ornate Grand Trianon Palace at Versailles. Mr Macron says he expects some tough words. It could be an awkward meeting, the BBC’s Lucy Williamson in Paris reports. Recently Mr Macron’s ...

Equity and Economic Party (EEP) President Chilufya Tayali has advised his fellow political party leaders to stop the blame game but work together in healing the nation. Mr. Tayali is of the view that currently all politicians are pointing at each other as the causers of the problems Zambians are facing. Mr. Tayali says this “blame game” will not sort ...

Three African Heads of state from Madagascar, Rwanda and Ghana are expected to visit the country next month. Announcing the pending visits during a press briefing in Lusaka today, Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba says the three Heads of State are President Hery Rajaonarimampianinaof Madagascar, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and President Nana Addodankwa Akufo-addo of Ghana. Mr. Kalaba has ...

President Edgar Lungu is saddened by the increasing number of succession disputes in some Chiefdoms in the country. President Lungu has implored the chiefs to take keen interest in finding a lasting solution to this challenge and not jeopardize the country’s impeccable record of peace and stability. Speaking when he opened a session of the house of Chiefs in Lusaka ...