Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo says police are investigating a matter in which a transgender woman walked naked on Great East Road yesterday after allegedly escaping from Chainama Hills Mental Hospital. According to sources, Kakana Mwila was committed to Chainama by her family but she ran away and then shot a video which she streamed live...

The takeover of Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) by China Non Ferocious Mining Company (CNMC) is complete in all but name, well-placed sources in government and at KCM told News Diggers, Tuesday. Making a second evaluation tour of the Chingola based KCM business unit, a CNMC delegation of over 50 Chinese nationals divided itself in departmental...

Copperbelt Police Commissioner Charity Katanga has refuted assertions by Kitwe District Commissioner Binwell Mpundu that the Command does not have enough officers to combat gang crimes in the city. And Katanga has called on members of the public not to report criminal matters to any other office in the country expect a police station, saying...

UPND chairperson for agriculture, food and water development Levy Ngoma says the Food Reserve Agency's maize price has potential to jeopardise the country’s food security. Recently, FRA pegged the maize floor price at K110 per 50kg bag of maize. But speaking during a press conference at the UPND secretariat, Monday, Ngoma said government should consider...

The Christian Churches Monitoring Group (CCMG) says it has observed early campaigns by the PF and UPND in Katuba constituency. And CCMG says the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has not done any preparations in terms of voter education in the named constituency. In its long-term observation program which was conducted in all the seven...

The Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) says poor debt management and lack of transparency in reporting debt statistics has continued undermining Zambia’s economic performance. And CTPD has advised government to come to terms with the fact that Zambia cannot borrow excessively without unleashing dire consequences on its economy just like any other developing...

Lawyers representing Housing and Infrastructure Development minister Ronald Chitotela in the matter he is accused of concealing and being in possession of properties suspected to be proceeds of crime, have asked the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court to acquit him. The defence have submitted that the prosecution’s evidence had been so discredited during cross examination that even...

Copperbelt PF chairman Nathan Chanda says President Edgar Lungu’s frequent visits to that region are not in response to the NDC’s perceived popularity, but are targeted at enhancing service delivery. Last week, National Democratic (NDC) president Chishimba Kambwili said President Lungu had been trooping to the Copperbelt on a regular basis because the PF was...

It is madness to appoint a district intelligence officer as Director General of the Intelligence, that is why the system has broken down irretrievably, says Wynter Kabimba. And Kabimba says the autocracy of UNIP was better than the current democracy that Zambia is being governed under. In an interview, Kabimba said he was so proud...

Zambia has stoked fears among businesses about the rule of law after the government oversaw the placement of a mining operation operated by India’s Vedanta into administration with plans to sell it. Last week Vedanta launched a fightback in a South African court as it seeks an international injunction on the liquidation and possible sale...

The mere mention of the name “Arthur Wina” awakens memories of Zambia’s liberation struggle, as this fallen freedom fighter remains an icon of freedom; freedom to enjoy human rights, good health and quality education. Or at least one would have thought, but that is not exactly the case at Arthur Wina Basic School in Lusaka,...