Alliance for Community Action executive director Laura Miti says President Edgar Lungu should fire Mines Minister Richard Musukwa for calling Black Mountain victims scavengers and for declaring the dump site safe. On Thursday, Musukwa told Parliament that he would not resign over the Black Mountain collapse which claimed 10 lives and injured 17 saying they...

The Zambia Chamber of Mines has backed calls not to enforce the Statutory Instrument that compels mines and other businesses to transport 30 per cent of their bulk cargo by rail until Zambia Railways has beefed up its capacity. During the Rail Africa 2018 conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, on June 13, Zambia Railways board...

President Edgar Lungu yesterday officially opened Zambia's first paperless hospital in Chipata City, and directed the Rural Electrification Authority to connect power to the rest of the health facilities in the province where government intends to roll out the technology. Addressing Chipata residents at the new health facility, President Lungu said his government was committed...

About nine months ago, on 29 September 2017, six human rights defenders and activists staged a peaceful protest outside the Parliament buildings in Lusaka to demand answers for the controversial purchase of 42 fire trucks by the government in 2015 at a cost of US$42 million. Zambians questioned both the procurement process and the cost...