The National Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQEZ) says it’s unbelievable that all the 38 candidates who sat for the 2021 Grade 9 exams at Mumena A Secondary School in Kalumbila district failed the exams. NAQEZ Executive Director Aaron Chansa has attributed this development to the automatic progression of Grade 7 learners into grade 8. Mr Chansa says if ...

The European Union Election Observation Mission has presented its report on Zambia’s 2021 general election in which it has made 22 recommendations including six priority recommendations to assist in kick-starting electoral reforms. Speaking in Lusaka today when she presented the EU Election Observation Mission’s final report and recommendation for future electoral reforms, Chief Observer Maria arena says the mission is ...

Over 2,500 cases of teenage pregnancies were recorded in Chipangali district in Eastern province between January to December 2021. Chipangali District Commissioner, Paul Sakala, says 2,520 teenage pregnancies were recorded during the year under review. Mr. Sakala says most of the teenagers who fell pregnant were school going girls. This came to light during a one day meeting of the ...

The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has commenced the process of deactivating sim cards that are registered more than 10 times under the same national registration number. And the authority has detected about 500,000 sim cards to be deactivated. Addressing a media briefing on the deactivation timelines for non-compliant sim cards, ZICTA acting Director General Engineer Mwenya Mutale ...

Senegal’s football team have been given a hero’s welcome upon their return home after winning the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time. Tens of thousands of ecstatic revellers celebrated the players’ return to Dakar, sitting on top of cars and dancing in the capital’s streets. President Macky Sall was among those greeting the team at the airport. When ...

Zambia Association of Citizen Contractors (ZACCO) General Secretary Danny Simumba has welcomed revelations that the contractor who was picked by the previous PF regime to work on the Lusaka-Ndola dual carriageway at a cost of US$1.2 billion is back in Zambia and has agreed to do the works at a 50 per cent lower rate. Mr. Simumba has however, stated ...

The Civil Society Scaling-up Nutrition (CSO-SUN) Alliance has proposed that government introduces conditions for recipients of the social cash transfer as a way of making it more effective and achieve the intended results of easing the vulnerability of the beneficiaries. CSO-SUN country coordinator Mathews Mhuru notes that in its current form, the current social net program does not help record ...

Political Scientist Neo Simutanyi has expressed concern over the on-going arrests of former ministers and senior public officers in the previous Patriotic Front (PF) regime on allegations of corruption. Dr. Simutanyi says the arrests by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and the Drug Enforcement Commission are not in tandem with President Hakainde Hichilema’s pronouncements that no one will be arrested before ...

Some Economists believe it will be difficult for Zambia to have its debt forgiven considering that most of the debt is owed to the private sector and Euro Bond holders. The CSO debt alliance has called for the cancellation of up to 60% of Zambia’s debt. Economist Chibamba Kanyama says he does not see any forgiveness for the Eurobond debt, ...