Green Party president Peter Sinkamba has described as a sheer waste of time austerity measures announced by government. Mr Sinkamba’s comment comes in the wake of recent revelations that government has bought a fleet of brand new state-of-art Land Cruiser VX V8 cars for top officials worth millions of Kwacha. He says such austerity measures cannot work under the present ...

More than 300 news outlets have launched a campaign to counter President Donald Trump’s attacks and promote a free press. The Boston Globe made the call last week for a nationwide denouncement of the president’s “dirty war” against the media, using the hashtag #EnemyOfNone. Mr Trump has derided media reports as “fake news” and attacked journalists as “enemies of the ...

Four traffic Police officers in Lusaka have been busted while mounting an illegal roadblock where they obtained over K2,200 from motorists illegally. The police officers who had mounted an illegal road block along Mungwi road where busted by Lusaka province minister Bowman Lusambo today as he conducted his tours. The officers who identified themselves as Charity Zuze, Mukela Chibesa, Moses ...

People’s Alliance for Change (PAC) President, Andyford Banda says the threat by the United States to review its bilateral ties with Zambia following the sending back of Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Tendai Biti should not be taken lightly. Mr. Banda says Zambia cannot afford to strain its relationship with the US government. He states that Zambia should deal with any potential ...

United Nations Resident Coordinator, Janet Rogan has expressed concern over the rising number of HIV positive adolescents in the Country. Ms. Rogan says this shows that a lot of young people are engaging in unprotected sex which in turn is contributing to early pregnancies, marriages and school dropout. She notes that HIV remains a social problem that calls for concerted ...

Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) consultant, Chishimba Kambwili has urged President Edgar Lungu to consider stepping down if he has failed to run the country. Mr. Kambwili says President Lungu has failed to run the country as evidenced from the number of wrong decisions his government is making citing the introduction of the 30 Ngwee per day tariff on internet ...