A Lusaka Magistrates' court today freed a newspaper news editor who stood charged for circulating photographs of a woman in labour during Zambia's strike earlier this year.
ZAMBIA recorded reduced poverty levels from 80 to 64 percent midway through the Fifth National Development Plan (FNDP) but the country failed to achieve the target average economic growth rate Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane has said.
THE news that Zambia's poverty levels have reduced from 80 per cent to 64 per cent should be taken as a big achievement for the country that has for many years been fighting poverty.
THREE Zambian companies are among the seven bidders who have been awarded the licence to explore petroleum in three provinces as the Government has called for immediate commencement of the works.
ROAN Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili sounds like a man who has been forced to eat his own words over his ill-informed opposition when it was first known that Chinese investors were interested in Luanshya Mine.
SPECIAL assistant to the President for political affairs, Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika has said that he is not fighting the Litunga of the Barotse Royal Establishment (BRE) or blaming him for the alleged weakening of the MMD in Western Province.
THE petrol situation in Ndola, Kitwe and Lusaka yesterday normalised following the resumption of production by Indeni Petroleum Refinery.
VICE-PRESIDENT George Kunda has told Parliament that the Government has approved a new organisational structure for the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) that will expand and strengthen the institution's capacity to fight corruption.
VIOLENCE that characterised the campaigns for the Solwezi Central constituency parliamentary by-election recurred yesterday in an election that registered a low turnout of voters partly due to the rains.
A 19-year-old boy was yesterday given two years probation for manslaughter by a Kitwe High Court after he admitted to causing the death of his schoolmate.
LUANSHYA Pastors Fellowship says it is happy that Roan Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili has recognised the goodness of the new Chinese investment and urged politicians not to condemn anything conceptualised by the Government.
THE Committee of Citizens (CC) has said it will tomorrow release the letter by former Taskforce on Corruption executive chairperson, Max Nkole and expose his alleged contradictory stance on the acquittal of former president Frederick Chiluba.
AS the four candidates line up to seek votes from the electorate in Solwezi Central to replace the late Benny Tetamashimba, they have been confronted by a strange phenomenon in Solwezi election campaigns - violence.
THE Government has been implored to protect the judiciary from the incessant attacks by some politicians and other citizens.
THE Government has been vindicated in its fight against corruption and has vowed to fight the scourge at a relentless pace, Chief Government spokesperson Ronnie Shikapwasha has said.
