Zambia’s annual inflation rate for the month of September 2019 has risen to 10.5 percent from the 9.3 percent in August the same year. Central Statistical Office(CSO) Interim Statistician General Mulenga Musepa has attributed the increase to food items price movements. At a monthly bulletin briefing held in Lusaka Mr. Musepa has disclosed that from the 10.5 percent inflation rate, ...

Lionel Messi endured yet more injury frustration on Tuesday after going off at halftime against Villarreal but Barcelona gave their coach Ernesto Valverde some much-needed relief with a comfortable 2-1 victory. Messi received treatment in the first half for what looked like a problem with his left thigh and was then unable to continue after the interval, replaced by Ousmane ...

MPs and peers will return to Parliament later after the Supreme Court ruled that its suspension was unlawful. Boris Johnson is returning early from a UN summit in New York, while Labour cut its conference short in the wake of Tuesday’s unanimous ruling. The PM, who has faced calls to resign, has said he “profoundly disagreed” with the decision but ...

US Democrats have opened a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over allegations he sought help from a foreign power to damage a political rival. Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi said the president “must be held accountable”. Mr Trump denies impropriety and called the efforts “witch hunt garbage”. While there is strong support from Democrats on impeachment, if the inquiry ...

Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD) President Charles Milupi says he expects the 2020 national budget to be more clearly outlined with regards the sources of revenue. Mr. Milupi says is it important that the minister of finance tells the nation where government will generate the money to finance the budget amidst the current economic challenges. He tells q-news that ...

Zambians have told to brace themselves for increased cost of living in view of the increased fuel pump prices and impending increase in electricity tariffs. Former Economics Association of Zambia (EAZ) Chrispin Mphuka is projecting that with the hiked prices of fuel and electricity, prices of essential commodities will also go up. Dr. Mphuka anticipates a further upwards adjustment in ...

The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has destroyed over 1,300 bricks of cigarettes and 17 cases of tomato paste worth K118,000 which were smuggled into the country. And the authority has donated assorted goods worth K205,000 to government institutions and charitable organizations. ZRA Corporate Communications Manager Topsy Sikalinda has explained that the tomato paste could not be donated as it is ...

ZESCO Limited appears to have backtracked on the announcement of an average 200 percent increase in electricity tariffs effective 1st October, 2019. Most reputable broadcast media houses carried the story of the 200 percent tariff increase quoting officials at the power utility who had earlier addressed a media briefing. During the same briefing, ZESCO acting Managing Director Webster Musonda said ...

President Edgar Lungu has called for strengthening of bilateral relations between Zambia and Sierra Leone for the mutual benefit of the two countries. President Lungu made call in New York yesterday when he held a bilateral meeting with Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio. The Head of State observed that Zambia and Sierra Leone have a lot in common such ...

Government has been urged to reverse the announced increase in fuel pump prices which came into effect at midnight. Leader of the opposition in Parliament and Monze Member of Parliament Jack Mwiimbu has told Journalists in Lusaka that government should consider the impact this will have especially on the poorest of the poor in the country who mostly rely on ...