Archive: April 2018

ADD president Charles Milupi has charged that the ‘miserable’ sums of money that government has paid small scale contractors will not only affect business but also their ability to continue employing Zambians. And Milupi says

The Zambia Centre for Inter-party Dialogue (ZCID) says it is ready to defend its recognition of Felix Mutati as president of the MMD. But the conflict resolutions body also says it is constrained to take

NGOCC chairperson Sara Longwe says the National Health Insurance Bill which President Edgar Lungu recently signed into law is a death sentence for many Zambians because treatment in health facilities will no longer be free.

Only Hakainde Hichilema’s financial muscle is keeping the UPND alive, says PF media director Sunday Chanda. And Chanda says Parliament should consider passing a law which bars someone who has never been a member of

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has dispelled allegations that Zambia’s UNDP resident coordinator Janet Rogan is compromised. Speaking through his deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq, in a video footage posted on the United Nations official

Police in Kitwe yesterday stopped a white famer and businessman Kelvin William Soper, for a second time, from holding a lone protest walk over land allegedly grabbed from him by Northern Province Permanent Secretary Elias

Patriots for Economic Progress leader Sean Tembo says the Patriotic Front is undermining the dialogue process by unilalerally drafting a Constitutional Amendment Bill which will be tabled in parliament during the next sitting. And Tembo

On 24 April 2018, voters in 16 different wards spread across the country went to the polls to choose new representatives following a series of vacancies occasioned by the death or resignation of incumbent councillors.

The Zambia Council for Social Development says the three church mother bodies must take up the responsibility of spearheading the dialogue process because their independence makes them neutral players. In a statement, Sunday, ZCSD executive

Patriotic Front Secretary General Davies Mwila says the party has picked Maria Langa as it’s candidate ahead of the Chilanga parliamentary by-election. And by press time yesterday, the UPND central committee was still locked up