ZAMBIA NEWS

President Edgar Lungu has urged youths to use this youth day to think of something they can do to contribute to national development other than engaging in violence. President Lungu says youths should rise to the occasion and participate in the national agenda. He says he will not allow any youth be it from the ruling party or from the ...

United Party for National Development UPND National Chairperson Mutale Nalumango has dismissed social media reports suggesting that she intends to join the ruling Patriotic Front. Ms. Nalumango says the Patriotic Front has never been attractive ever since it formed government in 2011. She says she remains committed to UPND under the leadership of Hakainde Hichilema contrary to social media reports. ...

  President Edgar Lungu has directed the millers in the country to reduce the price of mealie meal. Speaking upon arrival at Chipata airport today, President Lungu says it is unacceptable that mealie meal is fetching as high as K120.00 when the millers are buying cheaper maize from the Food Reserve Agency. He says there is no reason for the ...

VICE President Inonge Wina says the letters recently published by the Post Newspaper purporting to show correspondence between State House and the Zambia Security Intelligence Services and Timor Consulting of Israel are forged. Ms. Wina has told Parliament during the vice president’s question time that the newspaper is merely being malicious by producing the letters. She says the letters are ...

The University of Zambia Students Union (UNZASU) is saddened and disappointed with the move taken by government to scrap off the students’ meal allowance. UNZASU President Jones Mwewa says most of the students depend on the meal allowances not only for meals, but also use it for tuition, buying books and other school needs. Mr. Mwewa explains that a number ...

  Government has with immediate effect terminated the contracts for four milling companies accessing subsidized maize from the Food Reserve Agency for breaching the terms of their contracts by selling mealie meal at prices higher than the K70.00 and K50.00 agreed upon for breakfast and roller meal respectively. Agriculture Minister Given Lubinda has told a media briefing that the millers ...

UPND vice president for Administration Geoffrey Mwamba has pleaded not guilty to one count of unlawful drilling. Mr. Mwamba who is jointly charged with 19 UPND youths pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Mwaka Mikalile. It is being alleged that Mr. Mwamba was involved in the training of the youths without the permission of the republican president. Magistrate Mikalile has since ...

Higher Education Minister Michael Kaingu has denied ever making a directive to the effect that an agreement be reached to hive off a piece of land adjacent to East Park Mall which belongs to the University of Zambia (UNZA). Dr. Kaingu says people suggesting that an agreement on the piece of land in question has already been reached are only ...

Higher Education Minister Michael Kaingu has indicated that the Copperbelt University and the University of Zambia could reopen on or around 10th April, 2016, subject to certain conditions being met. And Government has discontinued the payment of meal allowances to students at the two universities due to abuse of the facility. Dr. Kaingu has told Parliament in a ministerial statement ...

Health Minister Dr. Joseph Kasonde has disclosed that the number of cholera cases has increased from 81 to 104 as of 8th march, 2016. Dr. Kasonde says Lusaka district has so far recorded 84 cases while Chibombo district has recorded 20 cases. He says Lusaka had 21 admitted cases while Chibombo district had none. Dr. Kasonde says Nyimba district had ...