Zambia has for a third consecutive day recorded over 5,000 new covid-19 cases, bringing the total of cases to 15,791 in three days. The country has recorded 5,081 new cases in the last 24 hours representing 32% positivity. Giving a covid-19 update at a media briefing today, health minister Sylvia Masebo says 15,779 tests were conducted. Ms Masebo says 4 ...

United Party for National Development UPND secretary general Batuke Imenda has urged the Zambia police to arrest all those involved in political violence ahead of the kabwata parliamentary by-election regardless of political affiliation. Addressing a media briefing in Lusaka today ,Mr Imenda has since warned UPND members engaging in violence that the party will not defend any member engaging in ...

The Non-governmental Gender Organizations’ Coordinating Council (NGOCC) has urged the new dawn government to take advantage of the offer by the cooperating partners to fund the referendum on the expanded bill of rights.  NGOCC board chairperson Mary Mulenga says Zambia can only address the issue of human rights through an enhanced bill of rights. Ms. Mulenga says the new dawn ...

The Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) has described the year 2021 as a good, historic but very hectic year. FODEP executive director George Chimembe tells q-news that 2021 has been a good year because Zambians had the opportunity to speak through the ballot and delivered their verdict by voting out the patriotic front and voting in the new dawn UPND ...

The Chongwe fire brigade has retrieved the body of a 24-year old man of Palabana who had drowned in a dam. The deceased who has been identified as Ian Nzala of Machi-machi farm in Palabana area drowned on Tuesday afternoon as he attempted to swim across the dam to rescue a duck that was stuck in a tree on the ...