ZAMBIA NEWS

CCZ General Secretary Fr. Emmanuel Chikoya The Council of Churches in Zambia [CCZ] has described as alarming revelations by Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Jack Mwiimbu that some police officers are involved in armed robbery activities in Lusaka and Copperbelt provinces.  CCZ General Secretary Father Emmanuel Chikoya expects the minister to take decisive action and bring the culprits ...

The Energy Regulation Board (ERB) says fuel pump prices would have further gone up had government not intervened by forgoing certain taxes as a way to cushion consumers. ERB Acting Director Consumer and Public Affairs, Nasima Shaikh tells Q-News that government weaved the 25% import duty and value added tax vat on imported fuel by oil marketing companies OMCs, adding ...

Medical for Quality Healthcare in Zambia (MQHZ), Director General, Quince Mwabu says the Ministry of Health must be held accountable over the acute shortages of drugs in almost all public health facilities in the Country. According to Dr. Mwabu, a survey conducted by his organisation in the last two weeks revealed that most essential drugs have run out and patients ...

Agriculture Minister Reuben Mtolo Phiri has predicted that the country will record a maize bumper harvest in the 2021/2022 farming season. Mr. Phiri is basing his optimism on the maize which he says looks promising in some parts of the country.  He adds that the measures government had put it place to contain the fall of army worms and provision ...

The government has announced that the evacuation of Zambian nationals who had crossed over from Ukraine to Poland following the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been postponed to Tuesday, 8th March 2022. Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Stanley Kakubo says the delay has been caused by the closure of airspace in Ukraine resulting in airspace congestion in the ...

New Hope Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) Leader Nevers Mumba says Zambia’s yes vote at the united nations on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the right thing to do, as it is consistent with the principles of Zambia’s foreign policy which was first formally codified in 1969. The un general assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding that Russia immediately end ...

The Private Sector Development Association (PSDA) has predicted that fuel prices in the country will continue to escalate if the geopolitical tension between Ukraine and Russian continues to drag.  Association Chairperson Yusuf Dodia says as a result of the on-going tension between the two countries, the private sector in Zambia will soon start feeling the pinch of the high cost ...

Civil Rights Activist Brebner Changala has supported Zambia’s decision to vote alongside 140 other nations at the UN to ‘reprimand’ Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted to ‘reprimand’ Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and demanded that Moscow stops fighting and withdraws its military forces, an action that aims to diplomatically isolate ...

Patriotic front (PF) presidential hopeful and former Zambia’s ambassador to Ethiopia Emmanuel Mwamba says the former ruling party should apologize to the Zambian people for the mistakes they made which led to its loss in the 2021 general election. Mr Mwamba tells q-news in an interview that there’s need for the party to conduct an introspection that will help work ...

Minister of health Sylvia Masebo says the ministry is taking the incidences of suicide and attempted suicide in the country as a medical and psychiatric emergency of public health concern. Ms. Masebo is worried by the growing high number of people committing suicide and self-harm cases reported in the media, healthcare facilities and police stations in the country. Speaking at a media ...