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State House has been advised to guard against disrespecting and ridiculing citizens in its public statements in a bid to clarify misunderstood matters relating to the Presidency. MMD faction leader Nevers Mumba is particularly advising the President’s Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations, Amos Chanda to always be civil in his public utterances. Dr. Mumba says the authority entrusted ...

Home Affairs Minister Steven Kampyongo says government has confiscated travel documents from foreign nationals behind the planned distribution of food hampers at OYDC which resulted in a stampede that left eight people dead and 28 others injured. The Lesedi Seven, a grouping under the Church of Christ had planned to distribute food hampers to 35,000 people who had been invited ...

Government has with immediate effect suspended the operations of the Church of Christ following the stampede in which eight people died at Lusaka’s Olympic Youth development Center (OYDC). Minister of Religious Affairs Reverend Godfridah Sumaili has told a news conference that the suspension will stay until all investigations are concluded. Reverend Sumaili says preliminary investigations have shown that the church ...

The Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) has strongly condemned the acts of violence perpetrated by Patriotic Front cadres targeting Law Association of Zambia president Linda Kasonde. CCZ General Secretary Reverend Dr Suzanne Matale says the Council is saddened by the harassment of Ms Kasonde by the PF youths who besieged her office on Friday, 3rd March, 2017. Reverend Matale ...

Eight people have died while 28 others have been injured in a stamped which happened at Olympic Youth Development Center in Lusaka around 06:00 hours today as a crowd jostled to enter the premises to receive food hampers. Among the dead are six female, one male adult and one male juvenile. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo says Five died on the ...

Government says it has no intentions, whatsoever, of coming up with a policy or legislation that will allow the withholding of salaries for women on maternity leave. In a statement, Labour Commissioner Chanda Kaziya has since dismissed the statement attributed to Civil Servants and Allied Workers Union of Zambia, Northern province Secretary Wallace Kasao that government intends to introduce a ...

HOUSING and Infrastructure Development Minister Ronald Chitotela says the full reinstatement of the  road pavement on the Luangwa-Feira road which was damaged following the earth movement last month will cost about K10 million once completed. Mr Chitotela has told Parliament in a ministerial statement that the Road Development Agency has since engaged China-Geo Construction Company to work on the road. ...

Veteran politician and diplomat Vernon Mwaanga says it will be a tall order for Zambia to try and help Israel regain its lost African Union observer status. Dr. Mwaanga says Zambia’s success in helping Israel regain its lost position in the AU will depend on the progress made in achieving peace in the Middle East. He says this is in ...

Local Government Minister Vincent Mwale has announced an upwards adjustment in Councillors’ allowances from K700,00 to K3,000 across the board. Mr Mwale has told Parliament that it has been agreed that the ministry of finance will be responsible for paying councillors their allowances. He says the attorney general has guided his ministry that councillors are entitled to be paid fees ...

Finance Minister Felix Mutati has assured Zambians that the International Monetary Fund will not bring anything different from what government is doing. Mr. Mutati says government is doing everything possible to ensure the IMF does not bring anything different. He says there is nothing strange that would be brought by the IMF, hence the need for the Zambian people to ...