President Edgar Lungu says with strategic international cooperation, Zambia will become a middle income country by 2030. And President Lungu says like-minded countries from every corner of the world must come together to champion the principles of freedom, fairness and democracy. In an article published by New Europe, a leading EU affairs newspaper, Monday, President...

Any critical observer of government actions in Zambia, like ourselves, would wonder why a political statement issued by State House on behalf of President Edgar Lungu, and on behalf of SADC countries, is being tactfully withdrawn. A day after President Lungu’s spokesperson Mr Amos Chanda signed and released a statement calling for a Government of...

The Human Rights Commission (HRC) has condemned the arrest of Constable Edwin Kabasiya's wife. Kabasiya is the officer of Meanwood Kawema Police Post who is on the run after shooting his colleague, Constable Lennox Kapila, who died in hospital last week. Police arrested Kabasiya's wife on January 11 and traveled with her to Mongu to...

Democratic Party 2021 presidential candidate Harry Kalaba says his government will introduce a law that will allow for the prosecution of a sitting Head of State because he wants to reduce powers of a Republican President. And Kalaba says he will not attend this Friday's national dialogue meeting because he will be busy marketing himself...

The Lusaka City Council has closed Chamba Valley Primary School with immediate effect for operating without water and with closed toilets, leading to open defecation. In a statement, LCC assistant public relations manager Brenda Katongola said the school’s facilities posed a health hazard to pupil. “LCC has ordered for the closure of Chamba Valley Primary...

President Edgar Lungu has condemned the terrorist attack in Kenya that left 14 people dead. In a statement released by Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda, President Lungu said there was no space for violence in Zambia and Kenya as the two countries were peaceful. President Lungu also renewed...

Lawyers for Vedanta Resources told England’s Supreme Court, Tuesday, that a case raised against the mining company by nearly 2,000 Zambian villagers should be heard in Zambia, not London. India-listed Vedanta, which delisted from London last year but maintains a legal base in Britain, is appealing a lower court ruling that a case in which...