Non –Governmental Organizations’ Coordinating Council (NGOCC) has welcomed the decision by President Edgar Lungu to appoint Cecilia Mbewe as the acting Clerk of the National Assembly following the retirement of Doris Mwiinga. NGOCC Executive Director Engwasi Mwale says the decision resonates with the NGOCC’s advanced calls for the need to balance power between women and men whenever making new appointments ...

Vice President Inonge Wina says Zambia has done well in enhancing child survival as evidenced by the reduction in the under-five mortality rate from 119 per 1, 000 lives births in 2007 to 75 per 1,000 live births in 2014. Ms. Wina says Zambia has also made progress in reducing the infant and neonatal mortality rate from 75 to 45 ...

Opposition Green Party president Peter Sinkamba has called on President Edgar Lungu to consider dissolving Parliament not only to save the decorum of the house, but also to promote national values and principles. Mr. Sinkamba says the on-going circus in Parliament since September last year undoubtedly shows that the Executive cannot effectively govern the country. He says the suspension yesterday ...

With Wednesday marking exactly one year until the football World Cup in Russia, SuperSport has assembled a stellar cast of experts for the tournament preamble, the Confederations Cup, which starts in St Petersburg on Saturday. Traditionally a dry run ahead of the World Cup, the Confederations Cup has developed its own history through the years. Indeed, as the 10th edition ...

Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Development Ronald Chitotela says K236.9 million was collected in road toll fees from January to May 2017. And Mr Chitotela has told Parliament in a ministerial statement that country now has five operational inland toll stations. He says about 141 direct and permanent jobs have been created under the national tolling programme have been created ...

At least six people have died after a huge fire raged through the night at a west London 24-storey tower block, and police expect that number to rise. Eyewitnesses described people trapped in the burning Grenfell Tower, in north Kensington, screaming for help and yelling for their children to be saved. Firefighters, who rescued many people, were called at 00:54 ...

The opposition National Restoration Party (NAREP) has advised the ruling Patriotic Front against abusing Parliament during the duration of the suspension of 48 UPND Members of Parliament. NAREP Spokesperson Bwalya Nondo says PF Members of Parliament should not turn Parliament into a PF Secretariat by taking advantage of the absence of UPND MPs and come up with bills that will ...

THE International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) has noted the need to make agriculture smart and pleasurable in order to attract youths as part of agricultural transformation. Speaking recently when she presented a paper on the Global status of commercialised Biotech/Genetically Modified crops during a communication training workshop for media practitioners from selected COMESA countries on Biotechnology ...

South Africa surrendered an 18-match unbeaten record after losing 2-1 at home to Zambia on Tuesday in an international friendly match in northwestern village Moruleng. Lebogang Manyama nodded South Africa ahead on 23 minutes,Brian Mwila fired Zambia level after 72 minutes and Lubinda Mundia snatched the winner 11 minutes from time. the hastily arranged match followed contrasting weekend results for ...

A jury deliberating Bill Cosby’s sex assault trial has again heard excerpts of his testimony from a 2005-06 civil case involving his accuser. Andrea Constand claims the US comedian drugged and molested her at his Philadelphia home in 2004. Mr Cosby’s lawyers argue the sex was consensual. The jurors entered a second day of deliberations after failing to reach a ...