Archive: 5 March 2024

5 Mar 2024 | Diggers Correspondent

Inflation will drop if exchange rate stabilises – Saasa

ECONOMIST Professor Oliver Saasa says the inflation rate is likely to reduce this month if there is stability in the exchange rate. On Thursday, Zambia Statistics Agency Chief Statistician Chola Daka revealed that the country’s... […]

5 Mar 2024 | Mwenya Mofya

MPs must reflect on their failure to act on warnings of drought – Kampyongo

Former Home Affairs minister Stephen Kampyongo says lawmakers must reflect on their failure to act on early warning signs of the drought that has caused President Hakainde Hichilema to declare a national disaster and emergency,... […]

5 Mar 2024 | Zondiwe Mbewe

HH salutes police, urges them to introspect in the face of corruption allegations

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has saluted the men and women of the Zambia Police Service for tirelessly serving the country in preserving peace and maintaining law and order. The President has, however, urged the officers to... […]

5 Mar 2024 | Barnabas Zulu

Zesco announces resumption of load shedding

ZESCO director of power generation Wesley Lwiindi says the water reservoirs at Kariba North Bank and Kafue Gorge are extremely low and the only way to manage them is to implement load shedding. Speaking during... […]

5 Mar 2024 | Angela Muchinshi

Lungu should stay on course if he wants to be more humiliated than in 2021 – Mulusa

GOVERNMENT Chief Whip Stafford Mulusa says those who are wise and close to former president Edgar Lungu should sit him down and advise him to go back to being a statesman. Mulusa adds that Lungu... […]

5 Mar 2024 | Ulande Nkomesha

Afreximbank commits $1.6bn to Zambia

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has disclosed that the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has availed US$1.6 billion funding to Zambia towards development financing to strengthen the country’s food security. In a Facebook post, President Hichilema, who held... […]

5 Mar 2024 | Mwiche Nalwimba

Firms involved in suspected illicit financial transfers to Asia should be deregistered – Lifuka

GOVERNANCE Activist Rueben Lifuka has called for the enactment of laws which prevent local Zambians from serving as front shareholders for entities, particularly those engaged in illegal activities. And Lifuka says the entities involved in... […]

5 Mar 2024 | Mazombwe Banda

Socialist Party seems serious, PF is completely gone – Mweetwa

CHIEF Government Spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa has bragged that the ruling party has won 47 out of the 50 local government by-elections which have been held since it came into office in 2021. And Mweetwa says... […]

5 Mar 2024 | Mwiche Nalwimba and Chongo Sampa

Munyaule marketeers vow never to vote for HH

SOME Munyaule marketeers have vowed never to vote for President Hakainde Hichilema. And PF faction secretary general Raphael Nakacinda has urged Lusaka Mayor Chilando Chitangala to stop patronising the UPND, saying they will destroy her... […]

5 Mar 2024 | Taonga Tembo

Zumani’s co-accused sues State for loss of business, demands over $2m

FORMER president Edgar Lungu’s political advisor Chris Zumani Zimba’s co-accused in the gassing case, Marlone Banda, has sued the State demanding damages for malicious prosecution and loss of business in the sum of over US$... […]