PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has announced that the country has provided K20 million in humanitarian assistance to Malawi after Cyclone Freddy hit that country, leaving several dead. The death toll in Malawi as a result of Cyclone Freddy has risen to 326, with many others displaced. In a post shared on his Facebook page, President Hichilema...

THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) says it has arrested 18 individuals in a financial scandal at Ministry of Finance, among them Auditor General Dick Sichembe, former Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba and Accountant General Kennedy Musonda. In a statement, Friday, ACC Head of Corporate Communications Timothy Moono said the commission had also arrested two Deputy...

SOCIALIST Party Spokesperson Frank Bwalya says the new dawn government should not spoil the name of politicians because of its failure to "fix" the economy as promised. In an interview, Wednesday, Bwalya said most politicians fear that people may begin to view them as liars because of the UPND's failure to fulfill its promises of...

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says he will spend a lot of time on the ground this year in order to appreciate people's challenges directly. Addressing Lufwanyama residents, Thursday, President Hichilema said in 2023, his administration does not want to hear stories through social media. “This year [the] President's time, the ministers' time, MPs' time, the mayors'...

MUNALI Member of Parliament Mike Mposha says his bar, Paddy Blues, is a well established business which does not promote moral decay like some establishments which PF licensed. Debating the Presidential speech on national values and principles in the National Assembly, Tuesday, Mposha said underage children are being exposed to alcohol because the PF was...

FORMER PF secretary general Davies Mwila says President Hakainde Hichilema should give his predecessor, Edgar Lungu, some respect because he is not his agemate. And Mwila has wondered what wrong the former president has committed that President Hichilema has continued "insulting him". On Wednesday, President Hichilema warned Lungu that it will soon get bad for...

MINISTER of Health Sylvia Masebo says the Strengthening Immunisation Systems through Serosurveillance (SISS) project has revealed that only 83% percent of Zambia’s population has developed immunity against measles, which still puts the country at risk for outbreaks. And Zambia National Public Health Institute (ZNPHI) Director Professor Roma Chilengi says the Ministry's statutory institutions should work...

JAPAN Ambassador to Zambia Takeuchi Kazuyuki says his country has added US$17 million to the initial $25 million for the Project for Upgrading Health Centres to District Hospitals in Copperbelt Province. Meanwhile, Finance and National Planning Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane says he is confident that the upgrading of the two health centres to district hospitals...

PF lawyer Makebi Zulu says the party will argue before the Constitutional Court that ECZ acted illegally by stopping Joseph Malanji and Bowman Lusambo from participating in the Kwacha and Kabushi by-elections, respectively, following the court ruling. On March 10, the Constitutional Court delivered a full ruling in a matter in which Malanji and Lusambo...

UPND Deputy Secretary General Gertrude Imenda says Emeritus Archbishop Telesphore Mpundu should have engaged government privately on his concerns over high mealie meal prices rather than speaking to the media. Last week, Archbishop Mpundu said a continued failure by government to address the high cost of living might result in people rioting for food as...