The Human Rights Commission (HRC) has strongly condemned the ill-treatment of youths suspected to have defamed President Hakainde Hichilema by the Zambia Army officers in Chiengi District of Luapula Province on 15th June, 2022. In a statement obtained by Q-NEWS, HRC Chairperson Mudford Mwandenga says the commission is shocked and gravely concerned at the apparent lack of remorse by the ...

The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit (AMLIU) has arrested an Accounts Assistant for money laundering activities involving over K2 million contrary to the Laws of Zambia. Joannie Nsekesha Mumpashya, a female Accounts Assistant aged 38 years of Plot No. 311 Dam Area in Chongwe has been arrested for fraudulent false accounting contrary to Section 327 ...

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has disclosed that it has since January 2022 received one billion, four hundred and two million, four hundred and eighty four thousand, three and fifty five Kwacha (K1, 402, 484, 355. 00) from the treasury towards the constituency development fund (CDF). Speaking at a press briefing in Lusaka today, minister in-charge, Garry ...

The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit (AMLIU) has arrested an Accounts Assistant for money laundering activities involving over K2 million contrary to the Laws of Zambia. Joannie Nsekesha Mumpashya, a female Accounts Assistant aged 38 years of Plot No. 311 Dam Area in Chongwe has been arrested for fraudulent false accounting contrary to Section 327 ...

The Human Rights Commission (HRC) has strongly condemned the ill-treatment of youths suspected to have defamed President Hakainde Hichilema by the Zambia Army officers in Chiengi District of Luapula Province on 15th June, 2022. In a statement obtained by Q-NEWS, HRC Chairperson Mudford Mwandenga says the commission is shocked and gravely concerned at the apparent lack of remorse by the ...

Civil Society Scaling Up Nutrition Alliance (CSO-SUN) has called for the review of the relief food package in order to protect the nutrition status of affected people. CSO SUN Country Coordinator Mathew Mhuru says most of the food aid interventions have not been nutrition sensitive and are mono diet based. Mr Mhuru is saddened with the lack of food diversity in ...

Advocacy for Child Justice has stressed the need for the Marriage Bill to be urgently taken to Parliament for enactment. Organisation Executive Director Josephat Njobvu says the current statistics on child marriages in Zambia are alarming, hence the need to strengthen legislation and policies that can protect the children against this vice. Speaking on the sidelines of a media advocacy ...

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has disclosed that it has since January 2022 received one billion, four hundred and two million,four hundred and eighty four thousand, three and fifty five Kwacha (K1, 402, 484, 355. 00) from the treasury towards the constituency development fund (CDF). Speaking at a press briefing in Lusaka today, minister in-charge, Garry Nkombo says ...

The Federation of Small Scale Mining Association of Zambia (FSSMZ) has stressed the need for the country to have a mineral policy that will encourage gender mainstreaming in the mining sector. Federation Vice President Pastor Pauline Mundia tells Q-news that the mining industry currently has very few women and that the few face challenges that limit their full effective contribution ...

Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has stripped his Vice-President Saulos Chilima of all his delegated powers after the latter was named in a $150m (£123m) corruption scandal involving government contracts. The vice-president has not yet responded to the allegations. A report by the country’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) named 53 current and former officials as having received money from British-Malawian businessman Zuneth ...