ZAMBIA NEWS

Four people have appeared in the Lusaka Magistrate Court jointly charged with seven counts of murder relating to the suspected ritual killings in Lusaka’s George compound between 16th March and 17th April 2016. The four suspects who appeared before Lusaka Resident Magistrate Greenwell Malumani are Lucky Siame, Lewis Chishimba Bwalya, Christopher Kasapo and Elvis Nyanga. Among them are two army ...

Home Affairs Minister Davies Mwila says the controversial Public Order Act will remain as it is. Mr Mwila has told Parliament in a ministerial statement this is because the quality of submissions received from stakeholders have not been adequate to bring about substantive changes to the Public Order Act. He says the Public Order Act will therefore remain as it ...

Government has maintained the Food Reserve Agency maize floor price for the 2016/2017 marketing season at K75.00 for a 50kg bag. Agriculture Minister Given Lubinda has told Parliament that the FRA will buy one million metric tonnes of maize of the two point eight million metric tonnes the country is expected to produce. Mr. Lubinda says the FRA expected to ...

The Zambia Center for Inter Party Dialogue (ZCID) has called on political parties to apologize to the church for failing to implement the resolutions of the recent interparty meeting on political violence. ZCID Executive Director Horrance Chilando says it is a shame that political party leaders deceived the church that they were ready to end political violence to the extent ...

Suspected Patriotic Front (PF) cadres this afternoon attempted to storm the UPND secretariat in Lusaka’s Rhodespark area in an act of retaliation following yesterday’s fracas in Matero. Suspected UPND cadres yesterday attacked and destroyed PF offices in Matero constituency after their rally was disrupted by the police. Quick action by the police prevented the PF cadres from storming the secretariat. ...

The Zambian Government has from February 2016 to date injected a financial investment of US$3.2 billion in the operations of the Tanzania- Zambia Railways Authority (TAZARA). Works and Supply Minister Kapembwa Simbao has disclosed that  a total of US$11.2 million of this money was disbursed to dismantle salary arrears for October to December 2015 as well as pay salaries for ...

Government has urged farmers in the country to refrain from selling maize to private buyers before the minimum price is set. Agriculture Minister Given Lubinda has advised farmers to safely keep their harvests until government opens market for the maize. He says farmers are supposed to be responsible with their harvest this year than sale their produce that will not ...

The Examinations Council of Zambia (ECZ) has disclosed that some politicians have produced forged Grade 12 Certificates for verification as they seek to stand on various elective positions. This follows, among other key requirements by the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ), that aspiring candidates for the August 11th General Elections must have a full grade 12 certificate inclusive of English. ...

Political players in the 2016 electoral race have been urged to fully comply  and subscribe to the electoral code of conduct as backed by constitutional provision in Article No. 60 clause 2  (g) . Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) Acting Executive Director Chimfwembe Mweenge is also urging political players to realise that fanning violence and all its forms as witnessed ...

Patriotic Front Deputy Spokesperson Frank Bwalya says the UPND’s popularity will be tested in the next three months. And Mr. Bwalya has alleged that the UPND has released huge sums of money to pay people faking to be defecting to their party ahead of the August 11th General Elections. Mr. Bwalya says all the people who are paid to be ...