The Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) has warned that it will revoke licenses for public service vehicle drivers exceeding speed limits with impunity. RTSA head public relations Fredrick mubanga says the agency is concerned over the continued disregard of speed limits by Public Service Vehicle (PSV) drivers. Mr. mubanga says the agency will in the course of this week ...

Agriculture Minister Mtolo Phiri says farmers in all but 23 districts in the country have started receiving fertilizer and seed under the Farmer Input Support Program (FISP) for the 2021/2022 farming season. The twenty three (23) districts are in western, southern and Lusaka provinces where farmers were previously receiving two bags of fertilizer under the e-voucher system while their counterparts ...

Transparency International Zambia (TI-Z) is appalled by the political violence that has occurred in the Kaumbwe parliamentary election campaigns in Petauke, where suspected cadres from the ruling United Party for National Development (UPND) are reported to have attacked the campaign teams of the opposition Socialist Party and Patriotic Front (PF). TIZ executive director Maurice Nyambe states that it is disheartening ...

Uganda’s national football coach Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojevic has been convicted on two counts of sexual assault in South Africa. The Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) Regional Court sentenced him to two separate three-year jail terms, both of which have been suspended for five years. The Serbian coach has immediately appealed the ruling. A short statement by Uganda’s football federation (Fufa) indicates ...

A new report says Africa needs to invest up to $50bn (£36bn) a year in order to cope with the growing threat of climate change. The African Union and World Meteorological Organisation warn that about a 120 million poor people face floods, drought, displacement, and extreme heat by the end of this decade if nothing is done. It also warns ...

The Zambia Federation of Employers (ZFE) is concerned with the recent industrial unrest at some companies where workers are staging illegal work stoppages with the recent one being at Mansa Sugar Company where workers were demanding for salary increments. ZFE Executive Director Harrington Chibanda has since advised workers throughout the country to always follow the legal procedures of airing their ...

The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has clarified that the maize that was soaked at its Katangalika satellite depot in Mwalala ward of Chama north constituency in Muchinga province following a heavy downpour belongs to farmers who have been waiting to have their maize purchased. FRA Public Relations Coordinator John Chipandwe says 2,750 bags were affected and not 3,500 by 50 ...

Republican President Hakainde Hichilema says his new dawn administration will work in a way that demonstrates fairness and equity across the country. Speaking when he addressed UPND supporters who went to receive him at Chipata Airport today, President Hichilema says this because God knew what he was doing when he placed every Zambian in this country and gave the country ...

Outgoing US Embassy Chargé d’ Affaires David Young has advised the new dawn government to get rid of the public order act or amend it. Mr. Young says the public order act in its current form undermines the country’s democracy. He has observed that Zambia has a strong multiparty democracy that needs to be enhanced by either amending or completely ...

People’s Alliance for Change (PAC) President Andyford Banda has challenged the UPND leadership to condemn the violence that has characterized the Kaumbwe parliamentary by election campaigns perpetrated by their members. Mr. Banda who has condemned the violent attacks on opposition party members with the latest being the socialist party says it is too early for the UPND to prove to ...