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The Government of Zambia on Tuesday expressed concern over the insurgency, banditry, and other security challenges in the country saying they would help Nigeria. Zambia Read more
The U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power congratulated Hakinde Hichilema Tuesday on his election as Zambia’s next president. In a statement released by Read more
Nigeria president, Muhammadu Buhari has sent his congratulatory message to the President-elect of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema, on his victory in the just-concluded presidential election of Read more
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president and liberation hero, has died at a military hospital in the capital, Lusaka, where he was being treated for pneumonia. Read more
A THREE-MONTHS-OLD baby, Natalia Nakanyika, has been reported missing from church by her mother. According to the mother, Alice Bwalya Sikanyika, her young sister was Read more
Zambian President Edgar Lungu wants the U.S. ambassador to leave the country after the diplomat criticized the African state for sentencing a gay couple to Read more
Zambia on Tuesday announced an increase to fuel prices, due to an upward movement of oil prices on the international market. The fuel pump increase Read more
What is the dream of many pilots in relation to their parents that have supported their education to become the highly-regarded, respected and might-we-add well-paid Read more
Zambia’s parliament has delayed a debate due on Wednesday on a motion seeking to impeach President Edgar Lungu over accusations of breaching the constitution, according Read more
LUSAKA – Zambia plans to drop treason charges against the country’s main opposition leader and free him from prison on Monday under a deal brokered Read more
A young man has reportedly killed himself days after hinting about his death on Facebook. The guy identified as Mpanjilwa Mulwanda was on Tuesday found Read more
Zambia’s first President Kenneth Kaunda was on Wednesday admitted to a hospital in Lusaka, the country’s capital, the government said. Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya Read more
Zambia’s opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema, has managed to send a message on Facebook to his supporters from the maximum security prison where he was moved Read more
South Africa’s opposition leader has been expelled from Zambia, blocking him from attending the treason case of his detained counterpart, his party says. Police boarded Read more
Seventeen people have died in a bus accident east of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, police say. A further 48, including the bus driver, have been taken Read more
Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has been charged with treason, police said Wednesday, after he allegedly refused to give way to President Edgar Lungu’s motorcade Read more
LUSAKA – At least eight people were killed and 28 others injured in a stampede in Zambia’s capital Lusaka on Monday as thousands of poor people Read more
A former prostitute who is now the Minister of Information for Zambia has begged her people to forget about her past and focus on the Read more
The ban by Zambia government on police officers from marrying foreigners has sparked public outrage. Police chief issued a memo saying that officers are not Read more
LUSAKA (Reuters) – Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), owned by global conglomerate Vedanta Resources PLC, will pay the first tranche of the $100 million it owes Read more
For Inonge Imutowana, buying food for her family of six is becoming increasingly costly. On the outskirts of the capital, a 25-kilo bag of staple Read more
LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambia’s retail fuel prices will fall from midnight on Tuesday due to subdued oil prices and a stronger kwacha currency, the energy Read more
LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambia plans to limit the fiscal deficit to 7 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2017 from a projected 10 percent Read more
LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambia’s economy should grow by 3 percent this year, largely unchanged from last year as electricity shortages and subdued private sector investment Read more
Zambian churches have slammed President Edgar Lungu for creating a religion ministry, saying that this would lead to government meddling in church issues, said a Read more
By Whitney Mulobela LUSAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Repeated failed crops caused by worsening drought have forced Christine Mwenda, a small-scale farmer in Zambia’s central Read more
LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambia’s incumbent President Edgar Lungu will be sworn into office for a new five-year term on Tuesday next week, a government official Read more
USAKA (Reuters) – Zambian police have arrested 133 people protesting against the re-election of President Edgar Lungu after his main opponent Hakainde Hichilema said the Read more
By Chris Mfula and Stella Mapenzauswa LUSAKA (Reuters) – President Edgar Lungu took the lead over his main rival on Saturday in early counting from Read more
The head of Zambia’s electoral commission has been responding to reports of violence in the run up to Thursday’s presidential and parliamentary elections. We posted earlier Read more
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