Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) public relations officer Irene Chipili says chain stores that are selling plastic bags to customers are doing it legally and have not breached any law. In an interview, Chipili also said compliance levels on the use of recommended carrier bags among chain stores has improved. “The law itself is called...

President Edgar says delayed salaries are normal, but promises that it won't happen again. And President Lungu has accused the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions of playing politics by lamenting the church's absence at the National Dialogue Forum. President Edgar Lungu was responding to remarks by ZCTU president Chishimba Nkole during May Day celebrations. "Fellow...

Government’s huge domestic arrears owed to contractors and suppliers has put pressure on households and businesses and presents a risk for Zambia’s financial sector, says the International Monetary Fund (IMF). And the IMF has projected that Zambia's growth will slow from 3.7 per cent in 2018 to 2.3 per cent in 2019, lower than earlier...

The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) says its ongoing community sales where 50Kg bags of white maize being sold to communities at K111 are not exploitative because buyers are benefiting with more mealie meal. And the FRA says it has sufficiently positioned maize stocks in various parts of Zambia that are threatened with hunger in light...

UPND deputy secretary general for administration Getrude Imenda has charged that the proposed electricity tariff increment by Zesco is not meant to carter for the power utility’s operational cost but to repay government’s ballooning external debt. In an interview with News Diggers! Imenda accused the Patriotic Front government of using Zesco to organise funds for...

UPND secretary general Steven Katuka says the party has noted with disbelief the continued focus by former party vice president GBM and PF secretary general Davies Mwila on insulting UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema at the expense of finding solutions to national development. In a statement, Katuka said his party was more focused on finding solutions...

NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili has asked Copperbelt Police Commissioner Charity Katanga to arrest Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo for murder, accusing him of killing NDC youth chairperson Obed Kasongo. But Lusambo says the allegations are baseless, challenging NDC to produce evidence that he hacked Kasongo. Meanwhile, the Human Rights Commission has called for the arrest...

Former UPND vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba (GBM) says he will go to Southern Province to de-campaign Hakainde Hichilema, boasting that a lot of people who are loyal to him in the area. Speaking when he recieved people who defected from UPND to rejoin PF in Kasama, Monday, GBM said he would show HH that he...

UPND deputy spokesperson and Katuba Member of Parliament Patricia Mwashingwele has died. Confirming Mwashingwele’s death, party president Hakainde Hichilema said he received the news with shock. “It is with shock that we received the death of Honourable Patricia Mwashingwele who, until her demise, was our Member of Parliament for Katuba Constituency. Indeed Patricia was a...