The Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) has backed plans by the Ministry of Mines and Minerals Development to review the mines and minerals development policy. CTPD Executive Director, Isaac Mwaipopo says this is a significant and timely decision on the part of government which calls for support from stakeholders to ensure it is actualized without delay. Mr. Mwaipopo ...

Human Rights Commission Chairperson Mudford Mwandenga has called for tangible action on legal reforms in pursuit of the presidential pronouncement on abolishing the death penalty in Zambia. Mr. Mwandenga says the policy pronouncement by President Hakainde Hichilema can be actualized through the amendment of penal laws such as the Penal Code Act and the Criminal Procedure Code Act Chapter 88 ...

Mines minister Paul Kabuswe says government has no plans of repossessing the black mountain in Kitwe and handing it over to the Zambia National Service (ZNS) to operate. Opposition Green Party president, Peter Sinkamba, recently advised the ministry of mines and minerals development to consider handing over the slug dump popularly known as the black mountain to the Zambia National ...