Zambia, thanks for the great memories! As I reflect on my three years as U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, I consider what my goals were for U.S.-Zambia relations when I arrived in 2014. I wanted to increase U.S.-Zambia trade and investment. I sought to provide U.S. support for inclusive economic growth. I aspired to see further...

The Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has fined folk musician Mumba Yachi K10,000 for obtaining a Green National Registration card and passport when he was fully aware that his parents are Congolese. When the case came up before magistrate Ruth Kapulo today, the state applied to withdraw the first count which alleged that he entered Zambia through...

Archbishop Telesphore Mpundu has been re-elected president of the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops(ZCCB). According to a statement issued by ZCCB Communications Director Fr Winfield Kunda, Archbishop Mpundu was re-elected during the ZCCB Plenary Meeting held from 6th to 11th November, 2017 at Kapingila House in Lusaka. Fr Kunda stated that the Bishops also elected...

Police in Central Province have arrested two women for murdering their nine months pregnant colleague after a scuffle at a bar. Meanwhile, police in Nyimba District of Eastern Province have arrested an 18-year-old man for murdering his 56-year-old uncle over a family garden. This is contained in a statement issued by police spokesperson Esther Mwaata...

Mufulira Deputy Mayor Beatrice Kapansa yesterday harassed a senior police officer for blocking her from going to beat up a National Democratic Congress member at a police station. Copperbelt Police Commissioner Charity Katanga confirmed this to News Diggers! in an interview today adding that 10 PF cadres were arrested for trying to disrupt an NDC...

Police spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo says the British Council has reported fraud involving one of the UKAid funded programmes called Zambia Accountability Project. ZAP is a £26 million project, meant to run from 2014-2018, aimed at encouraging and supporting effective collaboration among elected leaders, government officials, civic groups and private businesses on prioritised government reform...

President Edgar Lungu is tomorrow expected to travel to Egypt for a three-day visit. Zambia’s Ambassador to Egypt Major General Topply Lubaya told ZANIS that President Lungu would, during the visit, hold bilateral talks with his host President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to discuss matters of bilateral, regional and global interest. “The President is also expected...