The Ministry of Health has apologised for naming Pizza Hut and Mika Hotel as being cholera infected when their results are not yet out. In a statement, Ministry of Health Head of Communications and External Relations Stanslous Ngosa apologised for the mix up. "Dear colleagues! Kindly be advised that the Debonairs referred to during the...

The Ministry of Health has shut down three more food stores after samples collected from various eating places tested positive for vibrio cholera. Updating the media on the cholera outbreak this morning, Health Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya announced that Pick n Pay Woodlands bakery section, Debonairs Levy Mall and Mika Hotel kitchen had also tested...

PF deputy secretary general Mumbi Phiri says Lusaka lawyer Kelvin Bwalya Fube is a nonentity in the ruling party and has no right to propose a reconciliatory indaba. Earlier this week, KBF issued a statement saying the ruling party had problems and asked President Edgar Lungu to immediately convene an indaba that would sort out...

In this audio, Patriotic Front members in Kabwe vow to stand with their member of parliament Tutwa Ngulube amidst threats of expulsion. On Wednesday, Kabwe Central PF chairperson Andrew Sinyangwe warned that if Ngulube continued making statements against government, he would be suspended or expelled from the ruling party. Sinyangwe was referring to Ngulube's statements...

Kabwe Central PF member of parliament Tutwa Ngulube says Ministry of Agriculture Permanent Secretary Julius Shawa must learn to be polite when talking about serious and sensitive matters that hinge on other people’s livelihood. Ngulube was reacting to Shawa’s statement that he could not conclude that Zambia would record a poor harvest owing to the...

There is a Tsunami coming for the Patriotic Front and nothing will hold it, says Roan PF member of parliament Chishimba Kambwili. And Kambwili has invited former Minister of Foreign Affairs Harry Kalaba to join him in offering political consultancy to his newly formed National Democratic Congress. Meanwhile, Kambwili has complained that President Edgar Lungu...

UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema has cancelled the Eastern Province card renewal exercise that was scheduled to take place in Chipata tomorrow. In a statement today, HH stated that all party mobilization activities had also been suspended in view of the cholera outbreak. "In the same vein, we also wish to sadly announce the postponement of...

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema has hailed defence forces for their efforts to contain the spread of cholera by cleaning up Lusaka City. And Hichilema says everyone should join in combatting the epidemic as it was not time for politicking. In a statement Thursday, Hichilema he was saddened that cholera had already claimed about 50 lives....

FDD president Edith Nawakwi says Harry Kalaba must be specific with his allegation against those he has left in government by naming the corrupt and revealing their corruption. And Nawakwi says the more ministers try to explain the mukula scam, the more questions remain unanswered. Reacting to Kalaba’s resignation as Minister of Foreign Affairs in...

The Ndola City Council says it is using fire trucks to deliver water to areas like Masala which have no water. And the council has announced that the city has recorded one cholera case. In a statement Thursday, NCC public relations manager Tilyenji Mwanza revealed that the fire trucks were being used to deliver water...