Patriots for Economic Progress (PEP) president Sean Tembo has charged that the decision by the new dawn government to settle for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) program was arrived at without conducting due diligence. Mr. Tembo has told journalists in Lusaka that President Hakainde Hichilema personally made the decision to go the IMF route even before Cabinet was appointed. He ...

The death toll from the Chingwere, Great North Road turnoff fatal road traffic accident has risen to 10, after one of the victims who were admitted to the University Teaching Hospital died today. Police Spokesperson Rae Hamoonga has identified the deceased as Catherin Phiri aged 21 of Chingwere who is the mother to one of the victims, a one month ...

Minister of Mines, Paul Kabuswe is disappointed with the alarming level of misconduct among stakeholders in the mining value chain. Mr Kabuswe says there is lack of integrity and honesty among those doing business with mining companies, adding that the level of misbehavior in the mining value chain is alarming. He says this has contributed to mining companies closing up ...

Former Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) Commissioner General Kingsley Chanda says he is leaving his successor Dingani Banda a robust and vibrant ZRA. Speaking during the handover ceremony of the Commissioner General’s office, Mr Chanda says he’s also leaving at a time when the authority has fully delivered the 2021 revenue targets four months before the end of the year. He ...

UPND National Youth Chairperson Gilbert Liswaniso has called on the UPND youths to be agents of change despite the many hardships went through at the hands of PF cadres while in opposition. Mr. Liswaniso says what happened last week at the Lusaka high court during the hearing of the Mandevu constituency petition where a PF member was manhandled by suspected ...

Energy expert, Johnston Chikwanda has stressed the need for financial and structural reforms to be undertaken at ZESCO aimed at reducing overhead costs as well broaden the current customer categories in order to spread new tariff structures across broader segments. Mr Chikwanda notes that the 1 billion United States dollars which ZESCO owes independent power producers as revealed in the ...

Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development Minister, Charles Milupi has with immediate effect dissolved the board of Directors of the National Council for Construction (NCC). In a letter to the NCC board members, Mr Milupi has informed them that by virtue of being the appointing authority and in line with established law, he has withdrawn their appointments to the board of ...

The opposition Patriotic Front has been accused of conducting tribal and regional campaigns in the Kaumbwe and Msanzala by-elections in Eastern province. GEARS Initiative Executive Director McDonald Chipenzi says PF vice-president, Given Lubinda, is tolerating his members who are uttering tribal and regional remarks in his presence during campaigns and even tread on that political trajectory. Mr. Chipenzi says it ...

The Civil Society Scaling up Nutrition (CSO-SUN) Alliance Zambia has urged the new dawn government to ensure increased budgetary allocation to the nutrition sector in the 2022 national budget. CSO-SUN country Coordinator Mathews Mhuru is confident that increasing the budgetary allocation to the Nutrition sector will ensure the fight against malnutrition in the country is sustained. Mr Mhuru has since ...

The Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) has implored the new dawn government to state its position on the economic recovery program that was developed by the previous PF regime. CTPD Executive Director Isaac Mwaipopo says the UPND administration should tell the nation whether it will adopt the economic recovery plan developed by the PF or they will develop ...