The Ebola outbreak in Congo has spread from the countryside into a city, prompting fears that the disease will be increasingly difficult to control. Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga confirmed a case in Mbandaka, a city of a million people about 130km (80 miles) from the area where the first cases were confirmed earlier this month. The city is a ...

The Zambia Center for Interparty Dialogue (ZCID) says it is yet to come up with modalities for dialogue meeting. ZCID chairperson Nathan Mulonga says now that the first stage of the dialogue process has been dealt with through the national democracy stakeholders meeting, what remains is the Secretary General’s meeting followed by the presidential summit. Mr. Mulonga has stated that ...

Amnesty international’s regional director for southern Africa Deprose Muchena says the arrest of pilato as soon as he arrived back on home soil is a shocking affront to justice. Mr. Muchena says this shows the lengths to which Zambian authorities are prepared to go to stifle dissent. In a statement made available to qtv news, Mr. Muchena says pilato is ...