The kwacha’s depreciation in recent days has been triggered by the strengthening of the US dollar against other emerging market currencies, says financial market analyst Mambo Hamaundu. The kwacha has continued depreciating against major currency convertibles to hit above the K10.00 per dollar mark in the final week of August. According to Bank of Zambia...

Amos Chanda is so treacherous that in order to protect himself from going to jail, he will negotiate to be a State witness against President Edgar Lungu, Roan rebel PF member of parliament Chishimba Kambwili has charged. And Kambwili has denied killing Delcious Kashimbaya, a Chingola resident, as alleged by Chanda who is State House...

CiSCA chairperson Bishop John Mambo has pleaded guilty to contempt of court in the Supreme Court. This is in a matter in which Bishop Mambo was charged with contempt of court for writing a letter to Chief Justice Mambilima over the Savenda vs Stanbic Bank judgement in which he alleged that judges involved in the...

A 31 year-old man identified as Kasary Chikampa of Chief Muchila in Namwala District of Southern Province has committed suicide after a Toyota Hilux he was driving overturned and killed his wife, son and nephew. Southern Province Police Commissioner Bonny Kapeso has confirmed this in a statement, Thursday, saying the accident happened on Tuesday between...

A Zambia Air Force (ZAF) officer who allegedly slapped a Lusaka woman to the extent of dislocating her neck and rupturing her eardrum, has pleaded not guilty to one count of assault in the Lusaka Magistrates' Court. In this matter, Mwendalubi Hamane, ZAF CED aged 38, is charged with one count of assault occasioning actual...

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