President Rupiah Banda is Wednesday scheduled to leave for Luapula and Copperbelt Provinces on a four-day working visit, his press aide Dickson Jere has announced. He will travel to Luapula Province on Wednesday where he is expected to commission the refurbished Post Boat in Samfya District, which services Chilubi and other Islands on Lake Bangweulu. [...]

Save the Children Sweden has withdrawn its grant of K400 million to MISA Zambia following allegations of plunder by MISA board members. The Watchdog has been informed that Save the Children and MISA were supposed to sign a grant of K400 million this week. But when information of alleged looting at MISA was published in the [...]

Police last evening sealed-off the main entrance to University of Zambia great East road campus after students ran amok in protest over the issue of meal allowance. Police also temporarily closed part of the great East road after the stone throwing UNZA students damaged three Motor Vehicles. Lusaka Province Police Chief GREENWELL N’GUNI confirmed last [...]

But nothing that comes from abuse of power, crookedness, dishonesty, manipulation, injustice and outright fraud will last. Chiluba’s claimed innocence today is not anchored on any justice or honesty but on corrupt protection from Rupiah. And when Rupiah disappears from the scene, the cloud that today shields Chiluba from justice will also disappear, leaving him open to prosecution.

Chinese investment in Zambia grew by more than 40% last year compared to a year earlier despite the global financial crisis that affected direct foreign investment in Africa and the Southern African country. Mr Li Qiangmin Chinese ambassador to Zambia said that China invested USD 1.2 billion in 2009 through projects like the agriculture, education, [...]

Vice President George Kunda has accused opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) leader, Hakainde Hichilema of gagging the party’s original philosophy of inclusiveness and non-tribalism stance. Mr. Kunda said Mr. Hichilema’s going into a political pact with the Patriotic Front (PF) was against the ideals on which late UPND president Anderson Mazoka formed the [...]