The Human Rights Commission welcomed the statement by President Hakainde Hichilema that government has taken a decision to abolish the death penalty. Commission Chairperson Mudford Mwandenga says the statement by the president delivered on the eve of Africa Freedom Day Inter Alia that the government had resolved to abolish the death penalty and that it will work with the national ...

The Ministry of Green Economy and Environment has extended the deadline for application of new timber concessions by a month, from 31st may 2022 to 30th June, 2022.  Following the advertisement that was published in the Zambia Daily Mail on 14th April, 2022 calling for applications for new concession licenses, various stakeholders have raised concerns that they may fail to ...

The Annual Inflation for May, 2022 has decreased to 10.2 percent from 11.5 percent recorded in April, 2022. This means that on average, prices of goods and services increased by 10.2 percent between May 2021 and May 2022.  Giving the monthly inflation bulletin for may 2022, ZAMSTATS Interim Statistician General Mulenga Musepa has attributed the slowdown in annual inflation to price movements ...

Government through the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has extended the covid-19 vaccination campaign for five more days to end on Monday 30th may 2022. Announcing the development at a press briefing Acting Health Minister, Charles Milupi says the extension has been necessitated by the overwhelming response throughout the country.  Mr. Milupi has further ...

The Nation Union of Small-Scale Farmers in Zambia is concerned that some local farmers are supplying poor quality of onion to chain stores because they lack adequate knowledge on how to cultivate good quality onions. NUSFAZ programs officer Ebony Lolozhi tells Q news that the biggest challenge that farmers in the country have continued to face is lack of proper ...

Economist Trevor Hambayi has observed that the bank of Zambia’s target of a single digit inflation rate is slowly being realized. Mr. Hambayi tells Q -news in a telephone interview that this is evidenced by the central bank’s decision to maintain the monetary policy rate at 9 percent. He explains that government’s continued borrowing of money from the capital market ...

The World Health Organization has called on Zambians to keep a close watch on the outbreak of the Monkey pox. Monkey pox is a rare viral infection that can spread from person to person, and is caused by a virus. WHO country representative, Nathan Batyaita says though there is no cause for alarm, there is need for the citizenry to ...

Political Activist Dante Saundershas disagreed with President Hakainde Hichilema’s request to parliament to consider removing death penalty from the laws of Zambia. Mr. Saunders says plunderers of national resources should be the ones to face death penalty because their crimes deprive Zambians of essential drugs in health facilities, quality education, provision of clean water and good sanitation which those plundered resources ...