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President Edgar Lungu and Vice- President Inonge Wina have taken oath of office at a fully packed Lusaka’s National Heroes Stadium and have given their collective vision for the nation for the next five years. In his 43 minutes inaugural speech this morning, President Lungu has assured the nation that he will leave the nation better than he found it. ...

Advocacy against Child Abuse and Gender Based Violence has encouraged President-elect Edgar Lungu to consider appointing women to ministries dealing with GBV related cases. Executive Director Bellion Chola says it is important that the ministry of Gender is given back to a woman who he says understand better GBV cases than men. Mr. Chola is confident that a woman will ...

Human Rights Lawyer Moono Mapani has bemoaned the increasing violation of citizen’s political and civil rights. Mr. Mapani says people must be free to express themselves and not be intimidated. Mr. Mapani is worried that political and civil rights will continue being trampled upon by those in authority if the situation is unchecked.

National Movement for Progress (NMP) President Ng’andu Magande has called for a stakeholders’ meeting to discuss events following the enactment of the amended republican Constitution. Mr Magande notes that a lot has happened since the Constitution was amended. In an interview with Qfm News by telephone, Mr. Magande says this meeting which his party is proposing should also be used ...

A Freedom Fighter from Chinsali in Muchinga Province has advised the current crop of politicians to emulate Zambia’s first crop of politicians who resolved their differences with putting the peace of the nation at stake. Jacob Kapanga has told QFM News via telephone that politicians ought to know that they are not the first ones to have differences. Mr Kapanga ...

MMD faction president Felix Mutati says the country should now turn the page and focus on development having spent four months on politics. Mr. Mutati says Zambians across political affiliations should forge ahead in unison in order to improve the socio – economic conditions of the majority of citizens at an accelerated rate. And Mr. Mutati has commended President Lungu ...

President Edgar Lungu has cautioned prisoners against abusing the presidential pardon once released from prison. President Lungu has observed that inmates who are released on presidential pardon have in the recent past abused their chances and ended up finding themselves back in prisons. ZANIS reports that the President said powers to forgive prisoners should not be taken for granted because ...

MMD Faction President Nevers Mumba has been granted a K10, 000 cash bail by a Lusaka Magistrate Court. Dr Mumba had earlier pleaded not guilty to one count of criminal trespass before Magistrate David Simusamba. Dr Mumba was arrested on Friday after he stormed the ZNBC TV 1 newsroom on 8th September seeking clarification on a news item aired on ...

The Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) has denied misappropriating K34 million donor funds. Addressing a media briefing following the findings of the KPMG In-depth review of the ZNFU audit, ZNFU vice president Richard Lisimba says Cooperating partners’ grants have largely been used on agreed programmes and activities. He says the says the K34 million reported in the media is based ...

The Supreme Court is this afternoon set to rule on whether the inauguration of president-elect Edgar Lungu should go ahead or not while there are still Court processes challenging his re-election. The UPND which has challenged the declaration of President Lungu as winner of the August 11 presidential election had appealed to the Supreme Court to hear its application for ...