Zambia Railways Limited (ZRL) has announced a temporary closure on the Chipata-Mchinji Railway Line. This is owing the damage caused by heavy rains on both the Zambian and Malawian side. ZRL Acting Public Relations Manager Sombe Ng’onga has told Q-News in a statement that the damage has also affected movement of trains on the Nacala Corridor in general. Ms. Ng’onga states ...

A 23 year old convict from the Mansa Correctional Service has been shot dead after he escaped from lawful custody at the Mansa subordinate Court. Rodgers Mwelwa of Sumbu Village in Chief Kalasa Lukangaba’s Chiefdom, who was convicted for trafficking in Psychotropic substances, escaped lawful custody on Thursday. ZANIS in Mansa reports that Luapula Province Police Commissioner Elias Chushi has ...

President Edgar Lungu has been called upon to use his compassion and pardon the jailed veteran Journalist Derrick Sinjela. President Lungu is being asked to use his prerogative to set free the journalist who is currently serving an eighteen months custodial sentence for the offense of Contempt of Court. Political researcher Cephas Mukuka says his appeal collides with the festive ...

The opposition National Restoration Party (NAREP) has confirmed participation in the consultative meeting called by the three church mother bodies in Lusaka at 14:30hrs on Friday today. In tweet, NAREP agreed with the CCZ,  the EFZ and ZCCB, that the meeting consultative meeting goes on as scheduled whether the ruling Patriotic Front attends or not. And Opposition Patriots for Economic ...

Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) board chairperson Paul Mususu has disclosed that the launch of the much anticipated National Dialogue will be done before the 12th of January 2019. Bishop Mususu says this is the considered view of the Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ), the EFZ and the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB), who are leading the dialogue ...