Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Elijah Muchima says government has made strides in addressing the challenges of land titling through the Smart Zambia initiative. Mr. Muchima has said during a press briefing today that the progress made constitutes a roadmap made by the government and the Copperbelt University as another stakeholder. He says previously, there was rampant corruption involved ...

Opposition Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP)President Sean Tembo has charged that the coat which President Hakainde Hichilema claims he wore for 127 days while in detention, and the one which was auctioned for K2.5 million last Saturday bore no resemblance whatsoever. Mr Tembo alleges President Hichilema committed fraud by auctioning a fake memorabilia. He says he’s cognizant of the fact ...

A witness has testified in the Luanshya Magistrate court how Kabushi Member of Parliament Bowman Lusambo allegedly hacked him three times on the forehead and on the head using a machete. Stanley Musukwa, 58, of 3947/27 Mpatamato Township told the court that as a result of the injury he sustained he has since lost sight in the left eye. This ...

A nine-year-old boy placed in an induced coma after a crowd surge at the Astroworld festival in Houston, Texas, has died, a family lawyer says. Ezra Blount had been on life support in hospital due to severe brain and organ trauma since the show on 5 November. He is the youngest of 10 concertgoers to have been killed after panic ...

Three men have been arrested under the Terrorism Act after a man was killed in a car explosion outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital. A taxi carrying one passenger pulled up just before 11:00 GMT on Remembrance Sunday, as a national two minutes’ silence was due to begin, and exploded. The passenger was declared dead at the scene and is yet to ...

Zesco Limited says the current power outages being experienced in Lusaka are as a result of the Lusaka Transmission and Rehabilitation project which has been going on since 2014. ZESCO public relations Manager Hazel Zulu says the project is expected to be completed in 2023. Mrs Zulu explains that for ZESCO to undertake works on the project it requires the ...

Environmentalist, William Harrington has called for the signing and issuance of a Statutory Instrument to effect the decision by government to re-gazette Forest reserve no.27 in Lusaka east. Recently, Green Economy and Environment Minister Collins Nzovu told Parliament that government will repossess the controversial Forest 27 in Lusaka where development projects are being undertaken. Mr Harrington has since welcomed the ...