ZAMBIA NEWS

The Government will this week commence full-scale consultations for the 2018 National Budget and the 2018-2020 Medium Term Expenditure Framework. The consultations will be in form of public forums with all stakeholders, economic actors, and members of the general public. The consultations will focus on the key areas of the Seventh National Development Plan (7NDP) which was launched by President ...

The Human Rights Commission (HRC) has condemned the savage attack of mourners at Lusaka’s Memorial Park yesterday and calls for political leadership to end the escalating violation of human rights and freedoms through organised political violence. The commission says it is a great national shame that bereaved families and individuals are not only deprived of their right to mourn and ...

Industrial Development Cooperation (IDC) Acting Executive Director Mateyo Kaluba has described the first half of 2017 as positive and progressive in terms of investment and development. Mr. Kaluba told Q news in an interview that the year 2017 will be a good and productive year noting form the achievements that have been made in the first half of the year ...

Patriotic Front and UPND cadres today clashed at Lusaka’s Memorial Park leaving several mourners scampering in different directions for safety. Some mourners are nursing serious injuries at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) after the two warring parties clashed while burying their members. Family members and mourners briefly abandoned the bodies of their relatives for their safety as the PF and ...

Transport and Communications Minister Brain Mushimba has observed that the Zambian aviation sector has been turbulent after the collapse of Zambian Airways in 1994. The Transport and Communications Minister says despite this turbulence, it has still shown unprecedented growth over the last two decades. Engineer Mushimba says over 1.6 million passengers entered Zambia through its airports in 2016, indicating an ...

Police in Mongu have arrested five UPND provincial leaders for unlawful assembly. Western province Police Commissioner Charles Lungu who has confirmed to the arrest to Q-News says the five UPND provincial leader wanted to hold a meeting at their party offices which attracted a huge crowd of people without notifying the Police. Mr. Lungu has since warned people in the ...

Energy minister David Mabumba has disclosed that government through the Zambia Revenue Authority has slapped Lake Petroleum Oil with a penalty of K4.6 million for smuggling fuel into the country. Mr. Mabumba has told a media briefing in Lusaka that the twelve trucks involved in smuggling the fuel have since been forfeited to the state. He says this is contrary ...

The Jesuit center for theological reflection (JCTR) says the rise in the country’s debt stock is unsustainable for the country’s economy. JCTR Executive director Leonard Chiti has told Qfm that government should engage the citizenry and explain how and why the country’s debt stock has increased to US$7.2 billion from US$6.9 billion in December, 2016. Fr. Chiti says it is ...

Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini has reversed the suspension of UPND Namwala Member of Parliament Moono Lubezhi who was suspended together with 47 other opposition party lawmakers for boycotting the President’s state of the nation address. This is after it was established that Ms Lubezhi had obtained permission from the Government Chief Whip for leave of absence from ...

The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) has urged government to reinstate the mineral revenue sharing mechanism. The JCTR notes that the 2015 Mines and Mineral Development Act does not include the Mineral Revenue Sharing Mechanism which provided that the communities retain certain percentage mineral revenues. It has since demanded that this clause is returned to ensure that mining host ...