About 7,000 people have so far been displaced by floods since the beginning of the 2021-2022 rainy season. Disaster management and mitigation unit ( DMMU) national coordinator Dr. Gabriel pollen says the number of people displaced from their normal habitat due to continued heavy rains in some parts of the country is worrying and requires the intervention of many stakeholders ...

Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) has disagreed with the European union mission’s recommendation to remove the grade 12 certificate requirement especially for presidential and parliamentary candidates. The EU mission has among others, recommended for the revision of candidacy requirements to enhance the right and the opportunity to stand by ensuring registration fees do not deter participation and are refundable, and removing ...

Police in eastern province have apprehended two people in connection with the video that has gone viral showing a man and a woman having carnal knowledge in the bush. Brief facts of the matter are that the two had gone to drink beer at a named night club and on their way from the drinking spree, it is alleged that ...

Three people have died at an illegal mine in Chisamba after the pit they were digging gold from collapsed and buried them alive. The incident is reported to have happened around 24:00 hours yesterday in Yumba village in Kamano area under chief Chamuk Chisamba district of central province. The deceased have been identified as Darius Dwelwa aged 32 of Lusaka, ...

Senior chief Kanongesha of the Lunda people in Mwinilunga district of north-western province says the implementation of decentralization by the new dawn government will help in reducing the influx of rural dwellers migrating to urban areas in search of jobs. Chief Kanongesha who spoke through a translator says the move by the new dawn government to increase the constituency development ...

Movement for Democratic Change mdc vice president in charge of politics Leonard Hikaumba has charged that with or without the social contract with the youths, government has the obligation to create decent jobs for citizen as the population and demand for jobs grows. Speaking at a press briefing Mr. Hikaumba says the new dawn government has being emphatic on the ...

Opposition Patriots for Economic Progress (PEP) party leader Sean Tembo has challenged president Hakainde Hichilema to tell the nation whether it is his government’s policy to re-introduce torture of suspects who are in police custody. Mr. Tembo who is shocked by revelations that former president edgar lungu’s barberman shabby Chilekwa was allegedly tortured by the Zambia police whilst he was ...

The Zambia Institute of Independent Media Alliance (ZIIMA) has noted with sadness the recent outbursts by the UPND party and other members of parliament’s attack on the media. Recently, ruling UPND secretary general Batuke Imenda called for a press briefing where he castigated the news diggers over a story on government’s creation of youth employment and this was followed UPND ...

GEARS initiative executive director Mcdonald Chipenzi has charged that time is running out for the purported rebranding process of the former ruling party the patriotic front. Mr. Chipenzi has told Qnews that so far there is no progress made because the same people who were rejected by the Zambian people are still in the forefront in the rebranding process. He ...

Over 1,300 Angolan and Rwandan refugees have been relocated to Meheba and Mayukwayukwa resettlement schemes from refugees centres. The department of resettlement under the office of the vice president is working with united nations development programme (UNDP)  for the sustainable resettlement programme where a total of 15,931 households of both Angolan and Rwandan former refugees are targeted to be relocated ...