ZAMBIA NEWS

Fight Inequality Alliance Zambia- National Coordinator Daisy Mwilima has urged government to step up efforts in reducing the cost of living to bridge the inequality gap.  Ms. Mwilima has noted that the kwacha has been gaining and inflation going down from 24 to 10 in the last 9 months which is commendable but regrets that they are not translating into ...

Government says it has taken measures to recover a total of over 200 million kwacha erroneously paid allowances to public officials under the Ministry of Education following an audit conducted by the office of the auditor general of the payroll for the ministry of education for the financial years 2017 to 2021. The Audit was targeted at ascertaining the correctness ...

Zambia has detected the first case of BA.4 omicron variant and another one of BA.5 variant four weeks ago. Health Minister Sylvia Masebo says both the concerned individuals are from Chongwe District in Lusaka Province. Ms. Masebo says while the increase in positivity is small and the number of persons being admitted due to covid-19 is low, there is need ...

Hope for Human Rights is disturbed to learn that the government secretly made it mandatory for person’s living with hiv to be vaccinated against covid 19. Organization Executive Director Smart Chanda has told QTV news in an interview that this has been confirmed by reports coming from kabwata clinic were persons accessing ARV’s are being told to first get vaccinated ...

A Swiss National in Lusaka has been convicted and fined k100, 000.00 for exporting medicines without export permit via Kenneth Kaunda international airport using Ethiopian airways with air tickets indicating Lusaka to Addis Ababa and from Addis Ababa to Geneva. This is in a matter where the Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) intercepted Daniel Waldvogel, a ...

One Hundred Thousand, Eight Hundred and Seventy-Seven Teachers have applied to be recruited against the 30,000 teachers to be recruited in the ongoing teachers’ recruitment exercise. Delivering a ministerial statement in parliament this afternoon Minister of Education Douglas Syakalima has revealed that central province received the highest number of applications with 17,513 followed by copperbelt with 14,114. Mr Syakalima said ...

The Transparency International Zambia has charged that there have been suspicions of political interference in the ongoing teacher recruitment process. Organization Executive Director Maurice Nyambe says TIZ has reached out to relevant stakeholders in order to ascertain the validity of these suspicions. Mr. Nyambe has explained that following the enquiry into the matter, they have established, among other things that ...

Economist Trevor Hambayi says the stability of the exchange rate is one of the key fundamentals that will aid the further decline in the cost of living. The latest Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection Basic Needs and Nutrition Bascket (BNNB) for a family of six in Lusak has indicated a reduction of about K33 for the month of May 2022. ...

Civil rights activist Brebner Changala says President Hakainde Hichilema should not take pleasure in his latest decision not to renew the contracts of the Electoral Commission of Zambia Chairperson Esau Chulu and his vice Emily Sikazwe as this will raise questions on the credibility of the next people he will appoint. Mr. Changala tells Q-news that as welcome the none ...

Visiting UNAIDS Executive Director and UN under-secretary general Winnie Byanyima has commended Zambia for the strides made in fighting HIV and AIDS, and reducing related deaths by putting over 1.2 million people living with HIV on treatment. Ms. Byanyima has however, noted that the biggest challenge the country has is on how to protect girls and young women from new ...