The Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) says it is expecting government to issue a Statutory Instrument that will empower the Agency to implement the process of phasing out plastic bags and other related packaging materials. In an interview yesterday, ZEMA public relation officer Irene Chipili said the Agency was cautious not to kill the plastic...

The Amnesty International says 2017 was a terrible year for human rights in Southern Africa where government leaders like Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Zambia's Edgar Lungu used the criminal justice system to silence human right activists. According to the Amnesty International 2017/2018 report on the state of the world’s human rights, the space for...

It is peculiar and unusual for a court to ask a litigant to justify reliefs he is seeking before hearing evidence , former Director of Public Prosecutions Mutembo Nchito told Constitution Court judges yesterday. This is in a matter in which Mutembo is challenging his unlawful dismissal from the Office of the DPP. Mutembo is...

Zambia's corruption perception has worsened on the latest Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (CPI) from 87 in 2016 to 96 in 2017. Transparency International Zambia chapter president Rueben Lifuka said out of the 180 countries surveyed in 2017, 91 countries performed better than Zambia in terms of fighting corruption. Speaking when he launched the Transparency...

Newly appointed Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya has promised truthful, fair and timely communication of all government affairs. Speaking to journalists at a media breakfast at Southern Sun Hotel, Thursday, Siliya also said she would listen to submissions from all stakeholders including the opposition. “It is with deep gratitude that I take up my new...

Former vice-president Nevers Mumba says there is need for government to institute an audit into the wealth and personal assets of cabinet ministers in order for the ruling party to allay corruption allegations that have engulfed it. And Mumba, who is also MMD president, says the failure by former Finance Minister Felix Mutati to tell...

Minister of Energy Mathew Nkhuwa says government will have to secure US$360 million this year in order to fund the Zambia-Tanzania-Kenya Power Inter connector Project, if it has to meet the 2021 completion deadline. And Minister of Finance Margaret Mwanakatwe says the country's total net cash flow as of 2016 stood at a deficit of...

Luiwa UPND member of parliament Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane on Wednesday caught Minister of Agriculture Micheal Katambo lying on the floor of the House when he said the AVIC International bid had not yet been approved when the signed MoU indicated that the plan to relocate NRDC to Shibuyunji was in force. And Speaker of the...

President Edgar Lungu says Zambia will continue to partake in efforts aimed at bringing to book perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. According to The New Times, which is Rwanda’s leading English daily, President Lungu made these remarks following his visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Gisozi on Wednesday....