THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has announced that President Hakainde Hichilema will undertake a State Visit to Kenya from June 15 to 16, at the invitation of his counterpart, Uhuru Kenyatta. In a statement, Tuesday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Stanley Kakubo said during the visit, the two Presidents would...

POLICE in Isoka of Muchinga Province have launched a manhunt for a witch doctor only identified as Singogo for allegedly raping a 45-year-old businesswoman who went to consult him after losing clothing merchandise. In a statement, Tuesday, Police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga explained that the witchdoctor allegedly claimed that the woman's stolen items were at a...

FORMER defence minister Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba has asked the Lusaka Magistrates' Court to quash all the 24 charges of conflict of interest, money laundering and being in possession of property suspected to be proceeds of crime slapped against him. Mwamba has argued that this is because they do not disclose the offences he is alleged...

THE Lusaka High Court has convicted, pending sentencing, a Lusaka resident who caused the death of former Kabwata UPND MP Levy Mkandawire through dangerous driving in November last year. Judge Ruth Chibbabbuka convicted Alick Kalengo, 51, upon his own admission of guilt and reserved sentencing to today. Kalengo is charged with causing death by dangerous...

PF acting president Given Lubinda has pleaded not guilty to four counts of being in possession of property reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime. Lubinda, who is former Kabwata PF member of parliament, took plea before Lusaka magistrate Sanford Ngobola yesterday after the charges were read out to him. Magistrate Ngobola entered pleas of...

LUSAKA Chief Resident Magistrate Dominic Makalicha has re-allocated a matter in which former Lusaka Province minister Bowman Lusambo is charged with attempting to interfere with witnesses to Lusaka principal magistrate Sanford Ngobola. The matter was previously before magistrate Ntandose Chabala but she, however, sent it back for re-allocation last week as she has been transferred...

FORMER Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) provisional liquidator Milingo Lungu has submitted that if the stay of criminal proceedings against him is not confirmed, DEC might arrest him in relation to issues that are subject of the non-prosecution agreement entered into with the DPP. Lungu has submitted that since the stay of the criminal proceedings, DEC,...

FORMER defence minister Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba and his co-accused, Adolphus Mubanga, a country representative for Curzon Global Limited have been granted bail in the sum of K300,000 each but in their own recognisance, in a matter in which they are facing various corruption-related charges. Mwamba, a PF member, and Mubanga have been charged with 27...

ACTING Administrator General and official receiver Celine Nair has submitted that the legal system will be marred with uncertainty if Constitutional Court judge Martin Musaluke's decision to halt criminal proceedings involving former KCM provisional liquidator Milingo Lungu, is not reversed. Nair who is also Konkola Copper Mines provisional liquidator, has stated that uncertainty in the...

DISMISSED High Court judge Joshua Banda has submitted that he was punished by a biased Judicial Complaints Commission (JCC) that had no jurisdiction to hear the complaint against him. He has submitted that JCC had a pre-determined finding even before analysing of the evidence as they kept on mentioning that they would do a report...