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22 May 2020 | Julia Malunga

There’s tension in Zambia because Lungu wants 3rd term – Telesphore

ARCHBISHOP Telesphore Mpundu says there is too much tension in Zambia because President Edgar Lungu wants to manipulate the constitution so that he can run for a third term. And Archbishop Mpundu has insisted that […]

21 May 2020 | Ulande Nkomesha

Cops nab 9 in Nakonde riots, shoot one in both legs

POLICE in Muchinga Province have arrested nine people believed to have been involved in riots that rocked Nakonde yesterday in connection to the lockdown. And Nakonde member of parliament Yizukanji Siwanzi says the confusion was […]

20 May 2020 | Natasha Sakala

PF a terrorist organization – HH

UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema has charged that PF is a terrorist organization. And Hichilema says PF has a scheme to close down media houses to silence alternative voices in the country. On Monday evening, Iso […]

19 May 2020 | Mirriam Chabala

IMF didn’t extend COVID-19 fund to Zambia because our debt is unsustainable – Ng’andu

FINANCE Minister Dr Bwalya Ng’andu says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) did not consider Zambia for the COVID-19 relief package because, according to their assessment, the country’s debt position is unsustainable. And Dr Ng’andu says […]

18 May 2020 | Natasha Sakala

Govt condemns PF cadres for disrupting HH’s radio programme

GOVERNMENT has strongly condemned reported incidents involving some suspected PF cadres who disrupted a radio programme on Muchinga Radio that featured UPND president Hakainde Hichilema, and another incident where the opposition leader was barred from […]

16 May 2020 | Julia Malunga

Asymptomatic COVID-19 Nakonde patients will be managed from their homes – Chitalu

HEALTH Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya says 11 new COVID-19 cases have been recorded in Lusaka and Kabwe in the last 24 hours out of 667 tests. But Dr Chilufya says no new cases have been […]

15 May 2020 | Ulande Nkomesha

In every country, there are thieves, but corruption shouldn’t be a daily song – Dora

CHIEF Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya says every country has bad people, thieves and the corrupt but that does not mean corruption should be turned into a daily song. And Siliya says Zambians must unite and […]

13 May 2020 | Natasha Sakala

Don’t argue with my Covid-19 directive, says Lungu as he orders tourism operators to open

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu says the move to reopen the Victoria Falls is not political but meant to keep the wheels of the economy running, and has since warned tourism operators not to argue or politicise […]

12 May 2020 | Mirriam Chabala

Germany gives Zambia K370m, demands accountability on Covid donations

THE German government has released a rapid response package worth K370 million to help Zambia in the fight against COVID-19 and to mitigate the pandemic’s impact on the country’s most vulnerable people. But the German […]

12 May 2020 | Zondiwe Mbewe

Zambia is bewitched – Kambwili

I THINK we have been bewitched as a country and whoever has bewitched us, twapapata sana (we are begging), can you think of ‘unwitching’ us otherwise we are a dead nation, says NDC leader Chishimba […]