The Bank of Zambia Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has maintained the monetary policy rate at 9%. Announcing the decision of the MPC at a media briefing, Bank of Zambia Governor Dr Denny Kalyalya says key factors the committee took into account in arriving at this decision include the sharp deceleration in inflation and its projected continued downward trend towards the ...

GEARS initiative is elated with the Zambia Law Development Commission proposed new penal code which proposes and recommends for the removal of the controversial law on the defamation of the president. The Zambia Law Development Commission (ZLDC) in its latest report on the Penal Code Review has proposed a review of colonial era laws such as the criminal defamation, bigamy ...

A total of 107 persons were murdered last year in gender based violence circumstances. And a total of 20,540 cases of gender based violence were reported countrywide in 2021 compared with 26,370 GBV cases recorded in 2020 showing a decrease by 5,830 cases translating to 22.1% decrease. Zambia police service spokesperson Rae Hamoonga says of the 107cases of murder recorded ...

A young girl who went missing in 2019 has been found alive in a secret room under a staircase, police in the US state of New York say. Paislee Shultis, now six, was discovered in a house in the town of Saugerties after a search on Monday. She is in good health and has now been reunited with her legal ...

Energy expert Boniface Zulu says the decision by ZESCO limited to remove subsidies on electricity connections will derail the attainment of the government set goal for universal electricity access for all Zambians by 2030. The removal of the electricity connection fee subsidy means people will now be paying k6, 995 from k1, 700 and k6, 000 from k750 for meter ...

Republican President Hakainde Hichilema says his new dawn administration’s focus is to attract lower price capital investment into the country. Speaking to journalists shortly before departure for Brussels, Belgium aboard the presidential challenger jet at ZAF Lusaka base, president hichilema says capital with high interest rates caused the debt situation the country is currently grappling with. He says locally the ...

Mines and Minerals Development minister Paul Kabuswe has warned that he will not hesitate to close down the black mountain in Kitwe which government has handed over to cooperatives owned by Zambian youths and women should there be any reports of careerism and political interference. Mr. Kabuswe warns that he does not want to see people brandishing guns, party regalia ...

A Russian attack on Ukraine is “still very much a possibility” and the human cost would be “immense”, US President Joe Biden has said. In remarks televised nationally, he said the US was ready to respond decisively to such a move. The US president said Russia had now massed some 150,000 troops on the border with Ukraine. Russia’s defence minister ...

The Disability Rights Watch has noted the need for the new dawn government to commission a study on the Disability Rights Watch in Zambia. Organisation director Wamundila Waliuya observes that there is a large disparity between the quality of education delivered to children with disabilities in comparison to their able bodied peers. Mr. Waliuya laments that children with disabilities face ...

Zambia National Education Coalition (ZANEC) Executive Director George Hamusunga feels the new dawn administration has paid more attention to primary and secondary education while neglecting tertiary education. Mr Hamusunga has since urged the New Dawn administration to treat every level of education with equal importance. He has told QTV news in an interview that tertiary education is very cardinal because ...