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TRANSPORT and Communications Minister Mutotwe Kafwaya has signed a regulation to amend the night travel ban. In a brief interview, Kafwaya said PSV buses would now start to travel at 04:00 hours until 22:00 hours....

FINANCIAL analyst Blessings Kafwanka has urged the Bank of Zambia to maintain the current monetary policy rate which currently stands at 8.5 percent in a bid to sustain economic activities. Monetary policy is the action...

FORMER Labour Minister Fackson Shamenda says the continued protests by mine workers over delayed payments of terminal benefits is an indication that government is unable to manage the mines. In an interview, Shamenda said that...

CREDITORS cannot give us debt relief because there is no assurance that there is meaningful economic management in Zambia, says former Finance Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane. And Dr Musokotwane has promised Zambians a good life...

THE Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD), Southern African Cross Border Traders (SACBTA), and the Zambia Chamber of Commerce Trade and Industry (ZACCI) have expressed concern over the proposed toll fees to be paid...

MINISTRY of Finance permanent secretary Mukuli Chikuba says government, Lazard Freres a French firm and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are currently running debt numbers. Last year, the government awarded a US$5 million tender for

KONKOLA Copper Mines (in liquidation) has refuted claims that the mine has shut down its operations at the Konkola Deep mine. Reacting to a Bloomerg article that KCM had closed the Konkola Deep underground copper...

CIVIL Society Scaling-Up Nutrition (CSO-SUN) Alliance country coordinator Mathews Mhuru says the record of maize production in the 2020/21 agricultural season is not a guarantee that mealie meal prices will be reduced. And Mhuru has...

TRANSPORT and Communications Minister Mutotwe Kafwaya has challenged UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema to tell the nation the conditions which will be attached to his claims that creditors have promised to reduce 20 percent of the...

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says his party is so geared to tackle Zambia’s debt that it has already commenced negotiations with some lenders who have agreed to reduce the country’s debt up to 20 percent....