FIRST Republican President Dr Kenneth Kaunda’s eldest son Colonel Panji Kaunda has called on the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to go further and disqualify leaders and political parties who engage in tribal campaigns. Speaking during Dr Kaunda’s funeral procession in Chipata, Saturday, Colonel Kaunda said it was critical for political party leaders to denounce...

KENYAN President Uhuru Kenyatta says Dr Kenneth Kaunda has left African presidents with a lesson that there is life after the high office. And President Edgar Lungu says, Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa and himself would not have been presidents if it was not for Kaunda's free education policy. Meanwhile, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says...

MINISTRY of Community Development and Social Services, Acting Social Welfare Officer Morris Moono says various social cash transfer programmes are now efficient and predictable. But Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) Programmes Coordinator Edward Musosa has argued that there has been inconsistency in financing of social protection programmes as prescribed in the National Social Protection...

MINISTRY of Health Permanent Secretary for Technical Services Dr Kennedy Malama says 421 people succumbed to COVID-19 in the last one week. And Dr Malama has announced that 228,000 additional doses of AstraZeneca vaccine are expected to arrive in the country today. In a statement, Sunday, Dr Malama said the COVID-19 positivity rate for the...