ZAMBIA NEWS

The Zambia Center for Inter Party Dialogue (ZCID) has hailed the church for its initiative to reconcile the warring factions in the former ruling party, MMD. ZCID Executive Director Horrance Chilando says the church and his organization work closely in bringing together people who have differed due to various issues. Mr. Chilando says his organization wants to see a stronger ...

The ruling Patriotic Front says it will not disband any militia group because it does not have one. PF Deputy Spokesperson Frank Bwalya says all the panga wilding cadres have left the party with former party Secretary General Wynter Kabimba. Mr. Bwalya says other violent party members that have left the party include those that were loyal to UPND vice ...

President Edgar Lungu has directed Secretary to the Cabinet and relevant government ministries to speed up the setting up of the Gender Equality Commission. And the Head of State has maintained that he will no doubt adopt a female Running Mate ahead of the August 11th general Elections. Speaking during the commemoration of International Women’s Day in Lusaka, President Lungu ...

The Opposition Green Party President Peter Sinkamba has charged that the economic hardships Zambians are facing are as a result of the incompetence of the ruling Patriotic Front. Mr. Sinkamba says the mismanagement of the economy by President Edgar Lungu’s administration is what has landed the country in the current economic crisis. He says Zambia is where it is today ...

MMD President Nevers Mumba this afternoon shunned the MMD reconciliation meeting facilitated by Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia Executive Director Reverend Pukuta Mwanza and North Mead Assemblies of God Overseer Bishop Joshua Banda. This was despite being invited to attend the meeting. Former President Rupiah Banda, MMD National Secretary Mwansa Mbulakulima and former MMD Deputy National Secretary Chembe Nyangu were among ...

UPND vice president for administration Geoffrey Mwamba has pleaded not guilty to one count of proposing violence relating to a statement he made that he will go for President Edgar Lungu’s throat. Mr. Mwamba who spent the entire weekend in Police custody has since been released on a K10,000 cash bail with two working sureties. The UPND vice president for ...

Home Affairs Minister Davies Mwila has called on all political parties to ensure that their cadres do not engage in any form of violence as the nation draws near to the general elections. Mr. Mwila says people should not blame the police for the escalating levels of violence in the country but rather political parties should be blamed for promoting ...

President Edgar Lungu has reaffirmed that he will continue to uphold the Declaration of Zambia as a Christian Nation. Speaking during the church Service to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the founding of the Bible Gospel Church in Africa (BIGOCA) at the Olympic Youth Development Centre today, President Lungu says he is not ashamed to do so. President Lungu says Zambia ...

Health Minister Joseph Kasonde has assured that his ministry has been monitoring the outbreak of yellow fever in Angola and has heighted surveillance. Dr. Kasonde notes that they have continued with case based laboratory surveillance in all provinces particularly in the provinces bordering Angola. He says so far no case of yellow fever has been reported in Zambia. Dr. Kasonde ...

The opposition UPND has refused to disband its ‘security wing’ saying it is helping to provide security for the party. The Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) recently recommended that political parties should disband their ‘security wings’ saying they have become a source violence and intimidation in the country. But UPND Deputy Spokesperson Edwin Lifwekelo says the security wing of the ...