ZAMBIA NEWS

Historian Bizeck Phiri has doubted the UPND Alliance partners will stick together up to the 2026 elections. Professor Phiri says from the look of things, the UPND Alliance is getting weaker owing to the apparent conflict that has erupted within its ranks over positions. He however, states that this does not translate into the UPND becoming weak. Professor Phiri tells ...

Former Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane Finance and National Planning Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane has dismissed assertions of lack of transparency and accountability in the manner the government is handling the Chinese debt.  Dr. Musokotwane says certain questions being asked by Zambians pertaining to government’s discussions with creditors have already been answered.  He says China being one of Zambia’s creditors had its ...

A ten-year old albino boy of Mkushi has had the forefinger on his left hand brutally chopped-off by three people. Confirming the incident, police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga says police in Mkushi have since launched a manhunt for a male only identified as Kendrick of Mkushi and two of his accomplices for the offense of grievous bodily harm. Mr. Hamoonga says ...

President Hakainde Hichilema has tasked the newly sworn-in Police public complaints commission chairperson to expeditiously address public complaints against the police service. President Hichilema says his administration is enthusiastic about restoring citizens confidence in the Zambia police service based on professional conduct of the police in offering service and policing the public. He has also tasked the human rights commission ...

Ruling United Party for National Development Namwala member of parliament Moono Mapani has boasted that the UPND has fulfilled some of its campaign promises in the first 10 months of its tenure of office since it won the august 12 elections last year. Mr. Mapani has cited the recent distribution of the constituency development fund-CDF, and freedom of speech among ...

The Department of Immigration has apprehended 67 persons in a clean-up operation conducted in various parts of Kitwe.  Confirming the development Department of Immigration Public Relations Officer, Namati Nshinka says the 67 persons were apprehended yesterday.  Mr. Nshinka says those nabbed are 34 Tanzanians from Chisokone market for trading without permits, and 14 Chinese for abrogating the terms and conditions ...

The UPND-Alliance council of presidents is dismayed and shocked by what it terms as overzealous, insensitive, and immature statements, by UPND Spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa, against the Alliance Partners.  During a press briefing yesterday Mr Mweetwa says although individual political leaders of the alliance played their role in ensuring that the party emerged victorious in the 2021 polls, ordinary citizens played ...

Former Agriculture Minister Bob Sichinga has charged that the distribution of farming inputs for the 2022-2023 farming season will delay. Mr Sichinga says this is because the government has delayed the announcement of the commencement of the tendering process for the supply and delivery of urea and d compound fertilizers for the 2022-2023 farming inputs. But Mr Sichinga feels the ...

The Council Of Churches In Zambia [CCZ] has noted with concern comments attributed to a senior military official indicating tolerance and endorsement of the soldiers’ behaviour, to torture and to mistreat the three boys that recently insulted the republican president. Council General Secretary Emmanuel Chikoya says this kind of behaviour will lead to a culture of impunity by military personnel ...

The National Union for Small Scale Farmers (NUSFAZ) says the decision by Acting Minister of Agriculture Makozo Chikote to rescind the decision by Food Reserve Agency (FRA) to reduce satellite depots by half is commendable. FRA had reduced the number of depots from 1, 200 to 600 during this Crop Marketing Season prompting stakeholders to call for the rescinding of ...