That simple sentence already feels like an achievement worth acknowledging. After everything 2025 threw at citizens, just waking up on New Year’s Day 2026 is, in itself, a huge victory. It has not been an... […]

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Government assurances have a way of sounding comforting in Lusaka, especially when they are delivered in carefully chosen words. But on the ground, in villages, camps and farming blocks, reality follows a different calendar altogether.... […]

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DISPUTING the reports that UPND is vote-buying using mealie meal in Chawama, Lusaka Province UPND Chairman Obvious Mwaliteta says the party is only providing mealie-meal to its foot soldiers in the constituency who are assisting... […]

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ECONOMIST Trevor Hambayi is right. For most Zambians, 2025 was a hard year, and there is no point sugar-coating that reality. Yes, the macroeconomic scorecard carries some encouraging lines. Growth in GDP, relative exchange rate... […]

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