The Ministries of Defence and Home Affairs have instituted joint investigations into the death of the Zambia Air Force (ZAF) officer who died in police cells at Woodlands Police Station after being allegedly beaten by police officers. Speaking during a joint news conference in Lusaka today, Minister of Defence Davies Chama and his Home Affairs counterpart Steven Kampyongo have assured ...

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland’s former deputy first minister, has died aged 66. It is understood he had been suffering from a rare heart condition. The former IRA leader turned peacemaker worked at the heart of the power-sharing government following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. He became deputy first minister in 2007, standing alongside Democratic Unionist Party leaders Ian ...

Opposition Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD) President Charles Milupi has charged that President Edgar Lungu’s State of the nation address was rhetorical rather than practical. Mr Milupi says the country is not at a point where government should make theoretical speeches. He says it was expected that President Lungu would bring out practical measures and not rhetoric in his ...

Governance Activist Leslie Chikuse has advised United Party for National Development (UPND) members of parliament to find better ways of airing out their grievances. Mr. Chikuse says boycotting the presidential address to parliament is not the best way to do so. He says the UPND Members of Parliament should in the name of unity behave like legislators and attend to ...

Basic Education Teachers Union of Zambia (BETUZ) has welcomed government’s directive for school managements to confiscate cell phones found in possession of learners in schools. BETUZ Spokesperson Kabika Kakunta says the move will help learners to concentrate on their education instead of spending a lot of time on their phones. Mr. Kakunta notes that cell phones have negatively affected the ...

The ruling Patriotic Front has castigated the UPND for justifying the boycott of President Edgar Lungu’s address to Parliament by its Members of Parliament of President. PF Deputy Spokesperson Frank Bwalya has described the justification as cheap and irrational. He says the conduct exhibited by UPND Members of Parliament on Friday was an attempt to cause trouble. In an interview ...