Economist Chibamba Kanyama says it will be difficult for Zambia to survive without external financing as the current external debt position requires refinancing. And Kanyama says Zambia’s global competitiveness ranking will not improve any time soon due to the number of economic challenges the country is facing. Reacting to last week's pronouncement by Minister of...

Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD) leader Charles Milupi says President Edgar Lungu does not understand the cost of public holidays, hence he thinks he can order everybody to stay at home whenever it pleases him. And Milupi says the only people he knows for sure were happy about the declaration of Friday, October 25,...

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) says donors are heavily funding Zambia’s wildlife sector while the government does little to develop the industry. And the WWF has called for the proper utilisation of the country’s wildlife resources to bring an economic return for the country. WWF Zambia country director Nachilala Nkombo, in an interview,...

The Movement for Change and Equality party has dragged the Attorney General and Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to the Constitutional Court, seeking a declaration that the conducting of the 2016 Presidential nominations without an enabling legislation and regulations was illegal as it contravened different articles of the Constitution. Peter Mutondo Kachama, suing as deputy...

Dipak Patel says government should act in public interest and cancel the mining license which it recently granted in the Lower Zambezi National Park area. In a statement, Patel said the granting of a mining exploration license was a morally repugnant decision. “In the first instance, to have granted a mining exploration license in the...

Society House Development Company Limited has sued Mobile Broadband Limited, trading as Vodafone Zambia, in the Lusaka High Court for failing to settle rental arrears of over K172,000. Society House Development Company is claiming outstanding payments of K172, 641.34 from Vodafone Zambia in respect of rentals as at October 1, this year, as well as,...

UPND chairperson for elections Gary Nkombo says it is wishful thinking for the PF to think that they are gaining ground in Western Province because people in the area cannot vote for tricksters. Last Tuesday, PF secretary general Davies Mwila claimed that Western Province was no longer the UPND’s stronghold based on the PF’s strong...

The SADC Climate Services Centre (SADC-CSC) has called on Zambia and other countries in the region experiencing the heat-wave to take necessary precautions in order to avoid heat related health problems, such as heat stroke. In a statement dubbed “extreme temperature alert” for the 2019/20 season released on yesterday, SADC-CSC warned that maximum temperatures reaching...

Last week, we questioned why the Industrial Development Corporation accepted 15 per cent shares in a lucrative Dry Port business project earmarked for construction in Kapiri Mposhi. Before they can give us their explanations, we would like to defeat the argument that the IDC does not have the financial capacity to pump resources and demand...