THE Food Policy Council, with support from Hivos, is tomorrow set to launch the Food Security Initiative spearheaded by CUTS Zambia and the Lusaka City Council (LCC) to help government shape policy in the agricultural sector. In an interview, Consumer Unity Trust Society (CUTS) programmes officer consumer welfare Jane Zulu explained that the initiative was...

HUMAN Rights activist Brebner Changala says Zambian Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) must learn something from the governance institutions of Malawi by building confidence in the minds of the people. This came after the Malawi Anti-Corruption Bureau halted a contract for procurement of 35 Ambulances awarded to Grandview International Zambia Limited, the company which also supplied...

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (TI-Z) says President Edgar Lungu's pronouncement during the opening of Parliament that the PF government is committed to fighting corruption does not correspond to what is on the ground. In an interview, TI-Z executive director Maurice Nyambe said President Lungu's talk on corruption had become a mere rhetoric. "The problem we have...

MINISTRY of Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Chalwe Lombe says government is considering engaging the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to create a platform where Zambians in the diaspora can vote in next year’s general election. Speaking during the African Missions virtual meeting on the diaspora policy, Lombe asked missions abroad to make submissions to the...

HAKAINDE Hichilema says if anything happens to him, President Edgar Lungu should be answerable since he has now come out on the open to declare that he plans to go after the UPND leader. And Hichilema says if President Lungu does understand how the MMD privatisation programme was done, he, then, does not qualify to...

PF DEPUTY chief whip Tutwa Ngulube says Professor Patrick Lumumba is poverty stricken and has no credibility to comment on Zambia's governance. And Ngulube says Professor Lumumba's remarks are testimony that some foreigners want UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema to take over power so that imperialists could damage Zambia's economy. Meanwhile, Ngulube says he is confident...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu says the ruling Patriotic Front will win next year’s general elections adding that only ignorant people are going to a party that will never rule the country. Speaking when he drummed up support for George Chisanga, in Lukashya, Tuesday, President Lungu said the UPND will never rule this country. “Ukuvota pa 17th...

THE UPND has demanded the release of its deputy secretary general Patrick Mucheleka and two other officials arrested for aggravated robbery and malicious damage to public property, saying the grounds they have been arrested for are fake and unreasonable. In a statement, Tuesday, UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma stated that the trio were merely trying to...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu is expected on the Copperbelt on a one day official visit, Wednesday. Copperbelt Province Minister Japhen Mwakalombe confirmed this to journalists in Ndola yesterday. He said President Lungu will arrive at Ndola's Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe Airport at 17:00 hours. Mwakalombe said the Head of State would on Thursday, September 17 inspect progress...