Illegal small-scale mining where foreigners have been purchasing stolen or illegally-mined copper ore from small-scale miners continued last year, with amounts in excess of K5 billion that was spent, according to the FIC. The Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) 2017 Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing Trends Report, reveals that illegal small-scale mining was rampant last year, with amounts...

Government has moved to deregister the Democratic Party, a formation which former Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba was planning to stand on as presidential candidate in 2021. After resigning from government, Kalaba, who is also Bahati PF member of parliament, has been trying to register a political formation to sponsor his candidature but his attempts...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency has donated an ambulance to the Ministry of Health through the Office of the Commissioner for Refugees in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Nchelenge District in Luapula Province. Speaking when he handed over the ambulance, Head of UNHCR’s Kawambwa Field Office Hashim Sharief commended government for its continued support...

The Zambia Police Service Intellectual Property Unit on Monday unearthed a counterfeit Zambia Sugar syndicate in Lusaka. According to a statement issued by police spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo, Monday, police seized goods worth K126,893.60 during the operation. "The Zambia Police Service Intellectual Property Unit yesterday 4th June, 2018 conducted an operation in Lusaka’s Zanimuone west...

The Financial Intelligence Centre says at least one Politically-Exposed Person (PEP) was found to have received huge payments from a government ministry into his company account but failed to deliver on promised equipment. According to its 2017 Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing Trends Report, this PEP received huge cash payments in excess of US $2 million, had...

All People's Congress leader Nason Msoni says President Edgar Lungu should stop mocking Zambians by comparing his eSwatini gift to receiving a chicken. And Alliance for Community Action Laura Miti says Zambians do not care if their leader is humble, all they need is a competent president. On Sunday, President Lungu mocked his political arch...

From her Facebook page, civil rights activists Laura Miti addressed a very critical point about our Republican President Mr Edgar Lungu and his perception of humility. This was after the Head of State attended a church service at the United Church of Zambia in Chilanga, where he asked the Chikondano congregation to pray for his...

The state has joined Chishimba Kambwili’s son, Mwamba, Mwamona Investments and two others to a case in which the NDC leader is charged with being in possession of property reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime, uttering a false document and obtaining pecuniary advantage by false pretenses. And the state has increased the number of...

In an unprecedented move, Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini has embarked on a nationwide tour of constituency offices dotted throughout the country to familiarise himself with their operations. Speaking when he visited the constituency offices in Kabwe, Monday, Speaker Matibini said it had become necessary to see first-hand how the constituency offices were...

Veteran politician Vernon Mwaanga says President Edgar Lungu's claim that he had been approached by an opposition party leader to arrange a meeting with him are false. At a rally in Chilanga, Sunday, President Edgar Lungu said that Mwaanga had been approached by an unnamed opposition party leader, to arrange a night meeting with him...

At a business summit in Livingstone on 9th May 2018, a question booms out from the far right corner. “Mr. Kapesa, what in your view is the reason why collectively, indigenous Zambian businesses are NOT successful at higher scales?” At a higher scale; • You cannot work a full time job and run a business,...

Our fellow citizens who support the United Party for National Development don’t like it when we shine a spotlight on the weaknesses of their president Hakainde Hichilema, vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba or indeed the party in general. When we expose President Edgar Lungu’s corruption and dictatorship, they become very excited and even take it upon...