UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma says Patriotic Front leaders instructed their media director Sunday Chanda to discredit the African Liberal Network (ALN) because they were angry that the network exposed the country’s political situation. And Kakoma says it was impossible for him and his colleagues who attended the General Assembly of the African Liberal Network to...

Zambia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the South African government to promote collaboration in investment and exchange programs relating to; agriculture, livestock and fisheries, forestry, tourism and mining. South Africa’s NorthWest Premier, Supra Mahumapelo signed on behalf of his country while Luapula Province Minister Nixon Chilangwa signed on behalf of the Zambian...

YALI president Andrew Ntewewe says it is almost impossible to rig elections in Zambia as this country has one of the best systems in Africa. Commenting on CiSCA Chairperson Bishop John Mambo’s remarks that elections would be rigged before voting if ballot papers were printed locally, Ntewewe said the statement was unfortunate because CSOs were...

UPND Whip Garry Nkombo says the party is not in a haste to lay the impeachment motion against President Edgar Lungu on the table of the House because they want it to be thorough and professional. On Sunday, Patriots for Economic Progress leader Sean Tembo said he supported calls to impeach President Lungu and advised...

Judiciary Chief Administrator Nalishebo Imataa has admitted to the audit findings that the institution has 460 vacancies, saying a number of courts have been closed due to inadequate staffing. The 2016 Auditor General’s report on the accounts of parastatal bodies for the financial year ended December 31, 2016 revealed that the judiciary has a total...

The Patriotic Front has shifted to high gear with its exercise of recruiting opposition UPND councillors around the country. The UPND, which is the biggest opposition political party has complained that the ruling party is coercing councillors with K50,000 bribes to resign and defect. But PF media director Sunday claims the councillors were defecting to...

The International women’s week which culminates into International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8th March is celebrated globally to remember the contribution of women to development worldwide. This day allows us all to acknowledge women’s social, economic, cultural and political achievements despite the challenging environment. These may come in the form of systems, structures, laws and...

An 11 year-old girl of Chipata’s Jesati compound in Eastern Province is nursing serious wounds after her step-mother axed and burnt her with a brazier, police have said. Narrating the ordeal to News Diggers! in an interview yesterday, grandmother to the victim Martha Banda aged 48, explained that the reasons advanced by the step mother...

Former Minister of Justice and opposition Rainbow party president Wynter Kabimba says UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema is full of emotions and will make a worse leader than President Edgar Lungu. On Saturday, Hichilema reacted angrily when the Rainbow leader accused his party of abandoning its Chilanga MP Keith Mukata who was recently sentenced to death,...

2018 is here, another year to celebrate the contribution of women in every corner of Zambia and the entire world. It is a time to reflect on hustles and hurdles that women encounter to make a typical Zambian family survive. It’s also time to realize and celebrate the power of women in rural and urban...