Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP) president Sean Tembo says the increment in electricity tariffs will result in acute deforestation because many people have resorted to unsustainable energy sources like charcoal. In a statement, Tembo observed that many people were unable to meet the new cost of electricity. He also noted that the energy generation capacity...

Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) Spokesperson Antonio Mwanza says however backward riots could be, they are the most effective ways for students to air their grievances. Featuring on UNZA Radio’s Lusaka Star programme yesterday, Mwanza said riots had brought about change at the University of Zambia. “If government had listened to the students through...

Alert UPND cadres this morning whisked GBM away from the Lusaka Magistrate Court after hearing that police were making plans to arrest him. After the Hakainde Hichilema treason case was referred to the High Court for trial, GBM and other political party leaders went outside the courtroom to chat. Journalists then started taking pictures of...

Lusaka principal resident magistrate David Simusamba has committed Hakainde Hichilema and five others to the High Court for Trial. When the case was called, the state informed the court that the matter was coming up for commital to the High Court. "Unless the defence wants to address the court, This matter comes up for committal...

UPND vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba this morning got party supporters jubilating in court when he showed up unannounced. Mwamba has been away since the Hakainde Hichilema treason trial started on April 11. It was reported that Mwamba was avoiding being arrested and opted to stay out of the country. His lawyers last week informed court...

President Edgar Lungu says African countries have remained poor despite being endowed with natural resources because of lack of cooperation and trade amongst themselves. And President Lungu says Zambia wants to see countries in the region remain peaceful. President Lungu was speaking when he met his Malagasy counterpart Hery Rajaonarimampianina at State House in Lusaka...

Zambia and Madagascar have reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change due to the devastating adverse effects that the phenomenon has had on the two countries including the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the entire African continent. According to a statement issued by Special Assistant to the President for Press and...

Southern Province police commissioner Bonny Kapeso says he has rescinded his decision to punish the people of Batoka by permanently closing down their community police station after residents rioted. Batoka residents on Monday made a citizen’s arrest on a knife wielding Lusaka man, Ketious Kabwe, suspected to be a ritual killer. But the officer-in-charge at...

Finance Minister Felix Mutati says Zambians should be proud of their contribution to the National Treasury through paying taxes because doing so is one way of investing in the country’s socio-economic development agenda with locally mobilized resources. And Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) Commissioner General Kingsley Chanda says the Commission will from January 1, 2018 start...