Mitete UPND member of parliament Misheck Mutelo says Zambia lacks the good leadership required to resolve the country’s water shortages and alleviate people’s suffering. Speaking in Parliament, Wednesday, when he debated on the budget for the Ministry of Water Development, Mutelo said availability of water was not a problem given the numerous water bodies in...

Minister of National Development Planning Alexander Chiteme has dispelled concerns that his Ministry is neither here nor there, saying it is anchored under the Office of the President. And Chiteme says the World Bank has given government US$14 million as a grant to scale-up pilot projects throughout Western Province. He was responding to concerns from...

Police in Chingola say they can't give the opposition United Party for National Development a permit to hold a card renewal exercise because the opposition party is having intra-party differences. The UPND had applied for a police permit to have its card renewal exercise in Nchanga Constituency of Chingola District on Saturday December 8, 2018....

The Constitutional Court has ruled that President Edgar Lungu is currently serving his first term of office and is therefore eligible to contest the 2021 elections. The ConCourt has ruled that the amount of time President Lungu served after Michael Sata's death cannot be considered a full term. More details later.

The on-going trade wars between the Western countries and China meant to impose barriers on trade will ultimately have major implications on Africa’s economic growth, says former republican president Rupiah Banda. Speaking during 135th Trade and Development Bank (TDB) Board of Directors meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Banda said Africa, including the global economy, would...

PF Secretary General Davies Mwila says Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Patrick Matibini's decision to refuse to declare the Roan Constituency seat vacant, is illegal as it violates Article 72 of the Constitution. And Mwila says Dr Matibini’s refusal to declare the seat vacant on the basis that he wanted to give the Courts...

The Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has found a 56-year-old man of Lusaka West with a case to answer in a case where he is accused of defiling a juvenile. In this matter, Shaderick Kapalu is alleged to have defiled a 13-year-old girl after he asked her to accompany him to his house so that she could...