The Bank of Zambia has for a fifth time maintained the Monetary Policy rate at 9.75 percent. Presenting the policy brief in Lusaka, Bank of Zambia Governor Denny Kalyalya has cited the continued subdued economic activity which heightened in the last quarter of 2018 as well as slow progress towards fiscal consolidation as reflected in the rising domestic arrears and ...

Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya has directed the Health Professional Council of Zambia to immediately suspend the licensure examinations and issue temporal practicing licenses to the 200 doctors that have graduated. Dr. Chilufya has told Journalists in Lusaka that government has revised the policy that introduced licensure examinations for health professionals. He says his Ministry will recruit in excess of ...

Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya has disclosed that about five cases of Cholera have been recorded in the last one month. Dr. Chilufya says laboratory tests confirmed four cases of cholera and have since been treated successfully and discharged. Speaking in Lusaka at a stakeholders workshop for the finalization of the Multisectoral Cholera Elimination Plan, Dr. Chilufya says the cases ...

The Opposition Alliance says it will report President Edgar Lungu and seven others to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in its quest for justice over the escalated political violence in Zambia. Opposition Alliance Chairperson Charles Milupi says the alliance believes that President Lungu and his 7 accomplices are the ones orchestrating and funding the wave of political violence across the ...

Lorries have begun evacuating civilians from the last village in Syria still held by the Islamic State (IS) group. Journalists on the front line saw at least 15 vehicles carrying men, women and children leaving Baghuz. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance, which is besieging the area, said it did not yet know if any IS fighters were among ...

Zambia National Students Union President Misheck Kakonde says his union is seeking an audience with President Edgar Lungu over the abolition of the meal allowance in public universities. Mr Kakonde says there was therefore no truth in the claims by the Police that the students planned to stage a protest march to Parliament over the meal allowance. He has told ...

British High Commissioner to Zambia Fergus Cochrane-Dyet says the violence that marred the recent Sesheke Parliamentary by-election underlines the need for National Dialogue in the Country. Mr. Cochrane-Dyet says there need for Zambia to have a meaningful national dialogue. He says the country faces the prospects of serious trouble in 2021 if it does not have the national dialogue. Mr. ...

Government has again banned the movement of cattle from Chisamba district of central province to other parts of the country following the resurgent of foot and mouth disease. The disease which broke out last month has affected four farms so far in the district. Announcing the ban at a media briefing, Livestock and Fisheries Minister Kampamba Chewe says her ministry ...

Public health expert Beck Banda has filed an affidavit in the High Court in opposition to an application by World Vision to restrain him from publishing or saying anything against the organization. This is after World Vision sued Dr. Banda for defamation relating to the use of the Safe Motherhood Action Groups (SMAGs). Dr. Banda, who claims SMAGs is his ...

Liverpool’s Champions League last-16 tie against Bayern Munich remains finely poised after a goalless draw in the first leg at Anfield. The hosts posed the greater threat but were either wasteful in front of goal or kept out by Bayern’s well-marshalled defence. Sadio Mane missed a handful of first-half chances, most notably dragging a shot on the turn wide from ...