Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) has observed that Zambia remains polarized on political and tribal lines, thus the need for political leaders to commit to national dialogue. ZCCB Secretary General Cleophas Lungu says currently, one cannot say anything without being accused of belonging to either to the ruling party or the opposition. Fr. Lungu says this is the more ...

An academic who created an app which harvested data from 50 million users says he has been made “a scapegoat” for Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Dr Aleksandr Kogan completed work for Cambridge Analytica in 2014, but said he had no idea the data would be used to benefit Donald Trump’s campaign. The psychology academic said he wanted the data so ...

The Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP) has observed the urgent need to draft and enact a piece of legislation that will address loopholes of presidential financial excesses, once and for all. PeP President Sean Tembo says this is because the current financial regulations are not adequate to address issues to do with expenditure on Presidential trips, as evidenced by the ...

The Centre for Trade Policy and Development has urged government to work on fixing the broken existing social schemes before jumping on to the National Health Insurance Scheme. CTPD executive director Isaac Mwaipopo says country has a number of already existing social schemes that have lamentably failed to meet the expectations of the Zambian citizens due to poor and non-transparent ...