Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has stripped his Vice-President Saulos Chilima of all his delegated powers after the latter was named in a $150m (£123m) corruption scandal involving government contracts. The vice-president has not yet responded to the allegations. A report by the country’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) named 53 current and former officials as having received money from British-Malawian businessman Zuneth ...
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Tom Rice: South Carolina ousts Republican who voted to impeach Trump
A Republican congressman has lost his bid to cling on to his seat, after a furious backlash to his vote to impeach former US President Donald Trump. Tom Rice, a five-term South Carolina incumbent, was beaten in a primary election by Trump-backed challenger Russell Fry, a state legislator. But another Republican in the state who had criticised Mr Trump, Nancy ...
Read More »Rwanda asylum flight cancelled after legal action
The first flight due to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda was cancelled minutes before take-off after legal rulings on Tuesday evening. Up to seven people had been expected to be removed to the east African country. But the flight was stopped after a late intervention from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) led to fresh challenges ...
Read More »Provide clarity on Premier Consult’s involvement in FQM’s evaluation – TI-Z
Transparency International Zambia (TI-Z) has urged State House to provide clarity and assurance on Premier Consult’s involvement in the First Quantum Minerals (FQM’s) evaluation, in relation to the conflict of interest involving the chairperson of the President’s Economic Advisory Council. TI-Z has noted with concern the conflict of interest in the awarding of FQM’s 1.3 billion United States dollars expansion ...
Read More »Burkina Faso trapped miners: Families have hope after three weeks
The families of two of eight miners trapped by flood waters in a zinc mine in Burkina Faso last month are hopeful the workers will be found alive. “It’s been three weeks of sleepless nights for all of us,” a cousin of one of the trapped men told the BBC. There has been no contact with them and a wife ...
Read More »PeP accuses Nkombo of allegedly committing a criminal offence
Opposition Patriots for Economic Party Leader, Sean Tembo says local government and rural development Minister Garry Nkombo committed a criminal offence by forcing the woman and her children to consume locally brewed liquor kachasu against their will. Mr. Tembo says according to section 231 of the penal code act, cap 87 of the laws of Zambia, which states that, any person ...
Read More »DRC President to undertake official visit to Zambia
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has announced that Democratic Republic of Congo president Félix Tshisekedi will undertake an official visit to Zambia on Friday 29th April, 2022. During the visit, President Hakainde Hichilema, and his counterpart President Tshisekedi are scheduled to preside over the official signing of a bilateral cooperation agreement between the two countries. Foreign Affairs ...
Read More »Banking sector urged to step up efforts to reciprocate Govt’s policy
The Bankers Association of Zambia Chairperson Mizinga Melu says the banking sector must step up efforts to reciprocate government’s policy direction on e-government. Ms. Melu tells Q-news in an interview that reciprocating government’s policy direction on e-government is the best way for the banking sector to reach the unbanked population and providing convenience to clients in the delivery of banking ...
Read More »Libya oil production hit amid worsening protests
Libya’s National Oil Corporation says that a wave of protests affecting the energy sector are likely to get worse. At least four separate groups have stopped production at oil fields and energy facilities across the country. The protesters want Libya’s Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah to hand power to a rival government led by Fathi Bashagha which was formed ...
Read More »Durban floods: South Africa trauma and disaster as death toll rises
South African authorities in KwaZulu-Natal province are calling for a state of disaster to be declared after floods wreaked havoc in the area. At least 59 people are thought to have died in what officials said was “one of the worst weather storms in the history of our country”. President Cyril Ramaphosa said it was “a tragic toll of the ...
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