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The Southern African Center for Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) has called on the Government to expedite the process of reviewing the Public Order Act. And the organization has called on political parties, civil society organizations and other relevant stakeholders to support the process of reviewing the Act by making sound recommendations. Speaking during the August 11th General Elections Report ...

Forty five (45) UPND cadres were arrested in Lusaka yesterday have been charged with riotous behavior, causing malicious damage to property and assaulting police officers. Homes Minister Stephen Kampyongo has told a media briefing in Lusaka that government finds the lawlessness exhibited by the UPND cadres extremely disappointing. Mr. Kampyongo has warned that the wanton disregard of the established procedures ...

Police in Lusaka this afternoon fought running battles with opposition UPND cadres at the Lusaka High Court. This was after Police fired teargas canisters to disperse unruly UPND cadres outside the Court premises shortly after the adjournment of the matter in which UPND president Hakainde Hichilema and his vice Geoffrey Mwamba are seeking the hearing of their presidential petition. The ...

The Economics Association of Zambia (EAZ) says unstable exchange rate and high inflation is what has been Zambia’s fiscal deficits in 2016. EAZ president Chrispin Mphuka says it is these two factors his association has been expecting government would control. Dr. Mphuka notes that if government controls this fiscal side of the economy what the Country is expected to see ...

The Finnish government has expressed concern at the rate at which deforestation has continued taking place in Zambia. Finnish ambassador to Zambia Timo Olkkonen says his Country has taken note that before the power deficits, Zambia had been losing up to 400, 000 hectors of forest per year. Mr. Olkkonen says he has personally taken note of the number of ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has allayed fears of Zambia’s stock exchange market being susceptible to manipulations. Director Enforcement and Legal Services Diana Sichone says much as any stock market would be susceptible to manipulation her commission has set up as surveillance team to monitor the market. Mr. Sichone says with this surveillance team SEC is able to know ...

The opposition MMD says it does not agree with the recent observation by veteran politician Vernon Mwaanga that press freedom in Zambia is under threat. MMD National Secretary Raphael Nakachinda says his party which is in a working alliance with the PF is doing more action than talking to ensure that the freedom of the press is protected. Mr. Nakachinda ...

Political parties in the Country have been called upon not to relent at rendering checks and balances as government implements the economic recovery program. The opposition Zambians for Empowerment and Development (ZED) believes that this is the role that the opposition has to play in lifting Zambia from the economic predicament it is currently in. ZED president Frederick Mutesa has ...

Government says President Edgar Lungu’s recent to trip to South Africa is part of the strides being made to open Zambia’s potential to export to that Country. Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba says such trips as President Lungu undertook to South Africa are meant to enhance interaction between that Country’s chamber of commerce to that of Zambia. Mr. Kalaba says ...

National Restoration Party (NAREP) leader Elias Chipimo junior has been reelected as party leader at a party convention held in Lusaka this afternoon. Mr. Chipimo got 65 votes to beat his rival Grace Gondwe who polled only 19 votes. NAREP vice president for administration Charles Maboshe and his counterpart for politics Ngosa Mwelwa both went unopposed. And Mr. Chipimo has ...