THE European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) has recommended the removal of undue campaign privileges for the President and Vice-President from the law in order to ensure campaign equal campaign for all candidates. And the EU EOM has recommended that a law regulating political party financing should be enacted. During the presentation of the...

NEWLY-APPOINTED Chipata High Court Resident Judge Mercy Makubalo has bemoaned the lack of inadequate court infrastructure which affects the speedy delivery of justice. Speaking during the opening of the criminal sessions for the Chipata High Court for the year 2022, Judge Makubalo said currently, the High Court was sharing infrastructure with the subordinate courts, which...

AN arresting officer has told the Lusaka Magistrates' Court that he made up his mind to arrest and charge former president Edgar Lungu's former press aide Amos Chanda and two others with use of insulting language and obstruction after they opted to remain silent. Meanwhile, the court has reserved ruling on whether Chanda and the...

LUSAKA resident Joseph Busenga has lodged a complaint with the Judicial Complaints Commission (JCC) over the alleged misconduct and incompetence of three Constitutional Court Judges who were part of the panel constituted to preside over the 2016 presidential petition. Busenga, who has cited justices Annie Sitali, Mungeni Mulenga and Palan Mulonda as respondents in his...

PRINCE Akashambatwa Mbikusita Lewanika says the heated altercation between Kantanshi PF member of parliament Anthony Mumba and Lumezi independent member of parliament Munir Zulu is a wakeup call for Zambians who vote blindly. And governance activist Brebner Changala says the argument between the two members of parliament tells the character of the people that have...

MORE stakeholders have continued raising alarm over the Lower Zambezi National Park mining saga, with Oxfam in Southern Africa expressing concern that government has seemingly opted to ignore public outcry. And Oxfam has expressed concern over the high dependence on resource extraction for Zambia’s development agenda. In a statement, Friday, Oxfam in Southern Africa country...

PF DEPUTY national chairperson Davies Chama says signs are clear that the ruling party has created a bigger animal which will soon consume them because they are failing to condemn it. And Chama says the trips undertaken by President Hakainde Hichilema since he took office cannot be compared to any other President. In an interview,...

A 21-YEAR-OLD man of Lusaka's Mtendere township has admitted obtaining money by false pretences and personation. Paul Kawewe is charged with two counts of obtaining money by false pretences and personation. In count one, it is alleged that Kawewe on July 11, 2021 in Lusaka, falsely represented himself as a businessman and owner of a...

A CONSORTIUM of Health Professional Associations says its members have resolved to stop volunteering, demanding that they receive their letters of employment by February 18, 2022. And the Health Professional Associations, comprising 12 societies and associations, say they will march to State House to seek audience and intervention from the President if their conditions are...

ACTIONAID Zambia country director Nalucha Ziba has called for the review of the Loans and Guarantees Act as Parliament resumes sitting, so that it is enhanced in line with the constitutional provision on debt contraction. In an interview, Ziba said her organisation also expected to see the NGO bill in the next Parliamentary session as...