ZAMBIA NEWS

The Islamic Supreme Council of Zambia (ISCZ) has advised the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to address all contentious issues with the potential to cause post election conflict. The council is urging the electoral body to ensure all concerns raised by stakeholders patterning to the holding of the general election are addressed now. Council President Suzyo Zimba told QFM news ...

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says the last minute cancellation of his party’s scheduled rallies in Lusaka’s Chawama and Kanyama constituencies BY Police is an act of desperation and despotism by the ruling Patriotic Front. In a statement obtained by QFM, Mr Hichilema says the PF is in a clear state of panic as elections draw closer. He says the PF ...

Local Government and Housing Minister Steven Kampyongo has dismissed as figment of imagination media reports linking him to a scheme to rig the August general election. Mr. Kampyongo says the Post newspapers which published the article on the alleged rigging scheme must have done so out of expediency and not principle. He says reality has now dawn on the Post ...

The Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) has demanded that the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) avails to the general public the updated voters register in view of the increasing reports of ghost voters in the register. FDD Spokesperson Antonio Mwanza says it is clear that the ECZ is aware of the existence of ghost voters in the voters register ...

The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has come up with draft Electoral Process Regulations, 2016, aimed at disqualifying a political party or candidate in breach of the Electoral Code Conduct. This follows the continued violence in the ongoing campaigns ahead of the August 11th elections. ECZ Commissioner Fredrick Ng’andu has told a stakeholders meeting in Lusaka today that this is ...

The opposition Rainbow Party has urged Zambians to vote ‘No’ in the August referendum because the constitution upon which the Bill of Rights is anchored is discriminatory. Rainbow party General Secretary Wynter Kabimba says the amended republican constitution gives the people of Zambia rights on one hand and takes them away on the other hand. Mr. Kabimba has cited the ...

The Zambia Center for Inter Party Dialogue (ZCID) says it would be disastrous to go for the presidential election re-run under the current political tension in the country. ZCID Executive Director Horrance Chilando says his organization is worried that if political parties go into the rerun under the current political environment, things maybe bad. Mr. Chilando feels this is the ...

Forty Seven (47) deaths were recorded during the heroes and unity holidays due to road traffic accidents compared to 29 deaths recorded during the same period last. Police deputy spokesperson Rae Hamoonga says a total of 282 road traffic accidents were recorded during the period as compared to 285 recorded last year indicating a decrease of three road traffic accidents. ...

The ruling PF has described as fallacy and faulty thinking the suggestion that the closure of the Post Newspaper amounts to political persecution. The ruling party thinks that as people debate the issue of the closure of the newspaper they are failing to distinguish between the Post as media house and the Post as a business entity. PF Deputy spokesperson ...

President Edgar Lungu has arrived back home after attending the Regional Summit for East African Countries on Peace and Security that was hosted by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. President Lungu was among seven African presidents who attended a summit which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was part of. Speaking to Journalists this afternoon upon arrival at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport ...