ZAMBIA NEWS

Justice Minister Mulambo Haimbe has clarified that the new dawn government has not taken a position on polygamy in Zambia, stressing that all that has been done is a recommendation to clear up the Stattute book.   Speaking when he gave a ministerial statement on the repeal of the law relating to bigamy in the penal code, chapter 87 of the ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has handed over to the Ministry of Finance and National Planning the k65 million and 57, 900 us dollars that was seized and forfeited to the state from Faith Musonda for being proceeds of crime.  And Minister of Finance Dr. Situmbeko Musokotwane has announced that the funds has been given to the ministry of education to ...

Civil Society Scaling up Nutrition Alliance (CSO-SUN) country coordinator, Mathew Mhuru has called upon the new dawn government to have a strong focus on bridging the inequality gap, which he says has become a source of concern. Mr. Mhuru attributes the challenges to eradicate the high levels of poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition to the wider inequality gap in the ...

Parliament has heard that 4 out of 58 bottles each containing 1,000 HoneyBee paracetamol tablets supplied to Kasama general hospital were consumed by patients. In a ministerial statement to give the house an update on what led to the distribution of the quarantined HoneyBee paracetamol to Kabwe central and Kasama general hospitals by ZAMMSA, Minister of Health Sylvia Masebo says ...

Energy expert Johnstone Chikwanda has predicted an upwards adjustment in the fuel pump price for the month of march 2022. this is in view of a seven-year high of us$99.38 cents a barrel in the price of brent crude oil, an international benchmark. Mr. Chikwanda notes that the political tension between russia and Ukraine has triggered the rise in the ...

The Council Churches of Zambia (CCZ) says the proposal by the Zambia law development commission to repeal section 166 of the penal code that prohibits bigamy and regulates access to abortion for pregnant women is a contradiction to Zambia’s Christian nation status. CCZ general secretary father Emmanuel Chikoya says CCZ does not support the proposal by the ZLDC. Fr. Chikoya ...

Police in lusaka this morning blocked protesting unemployed Doctors who staged a peaceful protest in their quest to seek an audience with President Hakainde Hichilema over the recruitment of 11,200 doctors. Police had a tough time convincing the irate doctors who were just few meters away from State House to abort their mission to seek an audience with the Head ...

The Council of Bishops of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God has expressed concern at the proposed amendments related to marriages and procurement of abortions. Presiding Bishop, Joshua Banda says the proposed repeals are unwarranted and should not be supported by the citizenry. He has since advised Zambians to reject the proposals as they are a danger to the well being ...

University of Zambia Historian Bizeck Phiri has advised the united party for national development (UPND) leadership to desist from going against President Hakainde Hichilema’s stance on upholding the rule of law. Following reports of some overzealous upnd cadres, professor phiri advised members in the upnd new dawn alliance to strictly follow President Hichilema’s guidance on upholding the rule of law. ...

Former Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union, Emmanuel Mwamba has  strongly opposed proposed amendments to the penal code that threaten family values and the Christian standing of Zambia. Mr. Mwamba who is also opposition patriotic front aspiring presidential candidate says the proposed amendments were alarming because if passed they will allow men to have multiple marriages and ...