ZAMBIA Under-20 coach Chisi Mbewe has described young Chipolopolo's 1-all draw against Benin as a positive start despite the team failing to live up to his expectations. Substitute Rickson Ng'ambi cancelled an Adoflo Aloko strike to rescue a point for Zambia in a match that saw the Mbewe tutored side fail to string coordinated passes....

SHEPOLOPOLO forward Rachael Kundananji has won the "BEST STRIKER" award at the just ended Turkish Cup where the Copper Queens finished third behind champions Slovenia and runners-up South Africa. Meanwhile, midfielder Evarine Katongo says the team will continue working towards perfection and gaining momentum ahead of the global tournament. The Bruce Mwape tutored side finished...

POLITICAL Historian Professor Bizeck Phiri says former president Edgar Lungu needs to come out in the open and declare if he is still actively involved in politics. Meanwhile, PF Information and Publicity Chairperson Raphael Nakacinda has refuted allegations that Lungu is still actively controlling the former ruling party. In an interview, Tuesday, Prof Phiri said...

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says there is need to move away from the narrative that Zambia is against another country when State House holds a meeting with certain investors. And President Hichilema says his government would like to get the job done, saying the rigidities it inherited in the economy shouldn't be an excuse anymore. Meanwhile,...

LOCAL Government and Rural Development Minister Gary Nkombo says 43 contracts for feeder road rehabilitation valued at over 2.4 billion Kwacha have expired. Delivering a ministerial statement in the National Assembly, Wednesday, on the status of contracts for rehabilitation of feeder roads in Zambia, Nkombo disclosed that the 43 expired contracts are part of 240...

THE Jesuit Center for Theological Reflection (JCTR) says there is need to explore all available avenues to restructure Zambia's debt to China even if it means President Hakainde Hichilema meeting his Chinese counterpart. The Zambia-China Friendship Association (ZCFA) recently said that Zambia should take a two-track approach to resolve its debt to China, one, through...

GOVERNMENT has expressed concern at what it terms as alarming rates of landscapes degradation in the country. And government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Wildlife Worldwide Fund (WWF) for the sustainable Luangwa project. Speaking during the signing ceremony, Tuesday, Minister of Green Economy and Environment Collins Nzovu said the MOU was...

AN Investigations officer at the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has narrated to the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court how he eavesdropped and recorded a conversation in which former presidential spokesperson Amos Chanda allegedly confessed to having burnt a 398-paged court record. Jones Siasamba told the court that the conversation he recorded was between Chanda and a Lebanese...

FORMER Copperbelt minister Mwenya Musenge says PF is a dead political party being buried at memorial park with the current wrangles going on. And Musenge says former president Edgar Lungu should have helped the party to transition into a new leadership after the 2021 elections. He said there was no one in the party capable...

THE United Nations (UN) has warned its staff that Tropical Cyclone Freddy is expected to make landfall in Zambia. And Minister of Green Economy and Environment Collins Nzovu says the cyclone will cause waterlogging and localised flooding due to saturated soil moisture. Meanwhile, Southern Province Provincial Meteorologist Victor Bupe has warned people against parking their...