Zambia and Namibia today face off in a battle of supremacy at the ongoing African Nations Championship (CHAN) tournament in Morocco. The two sides are joint group B leaders although Zambia has a superior goal difference. Both teams have already qualified to the quarterfinals of the competition and today’s final group clash will be a...

ZANACO will camp in Zimbabwe ahead of the CAF Champions League preliminary round first leg against Armed Forces FC of Gambia. The team that is currently in Chipata for pre-season training has clinched friendlies with Zimbabwean sides. Among the teams Zanaco will face include Premier Division side Ngezi Platinum. Coach Mumamba Numba said in an...

MARRAKECH - Namibia and Zambia can reach the final of the African Nations Championship (Chan) with their style of football, Ivory Coast national football team coach, Ibrahim Kamara has said. Kamara said this at a media conference after his team was eliminated from the competition by Zambia on Thursday evening. Ivory Coast, who are in...

Threats attributed to Public Service Commission Chairperson Dickson Chasaya warning civil servants from discussing government issues on Social media prove that we have an extremely unhappy civil service in Zambia, says Gabriel Namulambe. Last week, Chasaya disclosed that it was spying on civil servants to identify civil servants who were leaking information to the media,...

Eight UPND officials have defected to the National Democratic Congress (NDC), citing lack of political strategy and divisive tendencies in the United Party for National Development. And NDC chairperson for gender and child development Saboi Imboela says the defection of the eight UPND officials is evidence that the National Democratic Congress is the only party...

Donald Trump said Haitians and Africans “Shithole” What is a Shithole? That’s the question we have to ask Trump, he admits it is not a racist derogatory remark against Haitians and all Africans. This has been received as not only a vulgar language but opening of flood gates of humanity’s worst part of racism and...

Government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have started the relocation of Congolese refugees from the congested Kenani transit centre in Nchelenge District of Northern Province, to a newly opened permanent site, Mantapala Refugee Settlement, which is 40 kilometres away. According to a joint statement released to the media on Saturday, The...

On 13 January 2018, Minister of National Guidance and Religious Affairs Reverend Godfridah Sumaili announced a one-week national prayer and fasting campaign, effective 15 January, ‘to kick out cholera from the land’. Branding the recent outbreak and spread of cholera as an attack from the devil, Sumaili argued that divine intervention offers a permanent solution...

Economist Chibamba Kanyama says although the establishment of a national airline will boost tourist arrivals into the country, keeping Zambia Airways afloat will be difficult because government, which normally doesn't pay on time, will likely be the primary client. Chibamba has since advised government to thoroughly consult technocrats about the viability of its decision to...

Panos Institute Southern Africa executive director Lilian Kiefer says any restriction on social media would be an infringement on Zambian citizen's right to freedom of expression. In a statement, Kiefer stated that her organisation was worried by Minister of Communication Brian Mushimba's threats to ban access to Facebook and other sites in Zambia. "Panos Institute...

Southern Province Minister Edify Hamukale yesterday sustained minor injuries when the motor vehicle he was in over turned after hitting a seven-year-old boy. Police spokesperson Esther Katongo confirmed this in a statement saying the accident occurred along Great North Road about 2km South of Kalomo town. Katongo revealed that the vehicle the minister was in...