Local government minister Vincent Mwale has launched he integrated  Development planning guidelines with a call on all stakeholders in the local authorities to work together so as to meet the needs of the people in communities in a timely manner. The IDP is a tool to guide development partners at local level in achieving sustainable development at the local level ...

Expelled PF Bahati Member of Parliament Harry Kalaba says he will not challenge his expulsion from the ruling party. Addressing a media briefing in Lusaka, Mr Kalaba says he has moved on to take up the position of President in the Democratic Party. He says he will not recontest the Bahati seat and neither will his party participate in the ...

Zambia has dropped 9 places in ranking on the 2018 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (CPI). From the 180 Countries gauged under the CPI, Zambia is now ranked number 105 after scoring 35 out of 100 points from the 37 out of 100 points it scored in 2017. Announcing Zambia’s corruption status in Lusaka, Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) president Reuben ...

The Human Right Commission has recommended that appropriate criminal charges be brought against all the Police officers including senior officers who were in charge of the operation to quell the students’ unrest at the University of Zambia great east road campus between 4th and 5th October, 2018 resulting in the death of a student. In a summary statement of its ...

Zambians have been called upon not to allow a situation where government antagonizes the media through statutory regulation. Civil rights activist Brebner Changala is urging people in the Country against taking indications from government that it will regulate the media as mere threats. Mr. Changala says such threats should be taken seriously with a sense of urgency and the realization ...

The ruling Patriotic Front has commenced the process of reviewing its constitution ahead of the 2021 general election. PF Chairperson for legal affairs Brian Mundubile says the process of amending the party constitution begun last year. Mr. Mundubile says the legal committee which he chairs has been holding sittings to come up with a preliminary framework. He says once this ...

Government has given the media in the Country a three months ultimatum to come up with a self regulatory framework or face statutory regulation. Information and Broadcasting Services Permanent Secretary Chanda Kasolo says government will step in with statutory regulation if the media fails to come up with a self regulatory framework after three months. Mr. Kasolo states that government ...

Confidential data about more than 14,000 people diagnosed with HIV, including foreign visitors, has been stolen in Singapore and leaked online. Authorities revealed details about the 2016 health data breach on Monday. They believe an HIV-positive American whose partner was a senior Singaporean doctor is behind the leak. The hack comes just months after the records of 1.5m Singaporeans, including ...

The United Prosperous and Peaceful Zambia (UPPZ) says it has turned down an invitation to join the Opposition Alliance because it is strong enough to win the 2021 elections on its own. UPPZ National Chairperson Francis Kope says his party is also not interested in a two political party system which those who have formed the alliance are seeking to ...

The Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) has disagreed with doomsayers that the launched National Dialogue is bound to fail. ZCCB Secretary General Cleophas Lungu says while those predicting the failure of the dialogue are entitled to their opinions, the three church mother bodies leading the process do not think the National Dialogue will fail. Father Lungu says the ZCCB, ...