The Public Accounts Committee has heard that there is increased collaboration between the Internal Audit Office and the Office of the Auditor General. And PAC has also heard that the Internal Audit Reports of Canada are public documents and can be accessed from the website. According the Auditor General's office public relations manager Ellen Chikale,...

Zambia Under-20 coach has joined the Chipolopolo bench as assistant coach. The 2017 U20 AFCON and 2016 COSAFA U20 Cup winning coach will be part of the bench for next week's 2018 FIFA World Cup Group B doubleheader against Algeria. Zambia will host Algeria on September 2 in Lusaka and play the final leg in...

The Lusaka Magistrates' Court has acquitted a 49-year-old man of Lusaka’s Chawama township who was accused of defaming President Edgar Lungu after referring to him as Ch*kala. Peter Habasimbi, a police reserve officer who was being represented by Keith Mweemba and Shadreck Mbewe, is alleged to have defamed the President whilst on a minibus from...

Zambia Medical Association president Dr Abidana Chansa has assured patients and citizens seeking medical attention that their HIV test results will be kept confidential. In a statement, Dr Chansa said the association was in support of government's newly announced mandatory HIV testing and treatment policy, saying it was a sure way of hedging the spread...

Chipolopolo coach Wedson Nyirenda has explained his decision to drop Zambia captain Rainford Kalaba and to instead recall Fwayo Tembo and Clatous Chama. The trio were at the centre of a media storm over discipline that saw the Lusaka Dynamos duo of Chama and Fwayo including Power Dynamos defender Billy Mutale axed from Zambia duty...

Anti-Voter Apathy Project (AVAP) Executive Director Richwell Mulwani has called on the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to set regulations and guidelines on how campaigns will be done in prisons following the decision by the Constitutional Court to allow prisoners rights to vote. Mulwani told News Diggers in an interview that the decision by the...

Voice of America's Straight Talk Africa TV show presenter Shaka Ssali is in the country to discuss democracy with a panel of Zambian governance activists. The discussion forum dubbed "The challenges of democracy in Zambia" has been organised by the University of Zambia Historical and Archaeological Association and the University of Zambia Political Science Association....

MMD leader Nevers Mumba has written to Finance Minister Felix Mutati again, warning him of the consequences of a runaway national debt that would arise from government's lack of honest about how much it has actually borrowed. The former vice-president regretted that Mutati did not respond to his earlier email. "On July 31st 2017, I...

UPND Spokesperson Charles Kakoma says the party has noted with dismay at the level of policy inconsistencies that the PF government continues to exhibit on sensitive matter. In a statement, Kakoma said it was unfortunate that the policy statements from President Edgar Lungu and the position taken by Health Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya were not...

The Copperbelt Energy Corporation says Mopani Copper Mines poses a risk to the sustainability of the energy sector as it is the only customer refusing to pay the new revised electricity tariffs. And CEC says the Kitwe High Court has thrown out an injunction Mopani had obtained against power restriction for irregularities. Yesterday, Mopani Public...

Green Party president Peter Sinkamba says Mopani Copper Mines (MCM)’s threat to retrench close to 5,000 miners if Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) sticks to cost-reflective tariffs is an insult to the Zambian people and the government. In a statement, Sinkamba stated that his party found the announced plan to prune 4,700 workers, a perfect example...