Two people are confirmed dead and three others nursing serious injuries after a vehicle being driven by MMD parliamentary candidate Mulondwe Muzungu”s son hit them early this morning around 05:00 hours, according to the Post newspaper. The paper  reports that two people out of the five who were earlier in the morning run-over by a [...]

President Rupiah Banda is tomorrow expected in Livingstone to grace this year’s Labour Day celebrations. Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Dickson Jere confirmed the development in a statement. The President will be accompanied by Labour Minister Austin Liato.

The opposition United for National Development (UPND) has scooped the Mufumbe bye-election. The UPND’s candidate, Eliot Kamwendo scored 5333 against MMD’s Mulondwe Muzungu who had 5009. The opposition were earlier worried at the slow pace the ballots were being counted and feared that the MMD will temper with results. The Mufumbwe seat was held by [...]

The Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) has scooped the Milanzi Palirmanetary seat as the United Party for National Development (UPND) is leading in Mufumbwe. By press time in Milanzi MMD polled 5,120 votes and the Patriotic Front (PF) came second with 2,337 votes, giving victory to the ruling party. Meanwhile, results from 6 polling stations [...]

Zambian police has placed the influential opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema under house arrest in Mufumbwe constituency, which has been engulfed in political upheaval in the run-up to today’s parliamentary by-elections. Mr Hichilema’s UPND members allegedly assaulted a man, they claimed had impersonated a policeman, leading to their opposition leader’s arrest. Mufumbwe and Milanzi constituencies in [...]

LUSAKA lawyer Frank Tembo yesterday testified that not everything in the warn and caution statement recorded by the police was true. During cross-examination in a matter where Inktech managing director Matthew Mohan, Idris Patel and Shabia Patel are charged with the murder of Cyclone Hardware director Sajid Itowala on July 21, 2009, Tembo explained that [...]

THE recent visit of the first Republican President of Zambia, Dr Kenneth Kaunda, to the Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, at his Sagamu country home was symbolic in many ways. Apart from adding pep to the quest for cementing a bond of unity among Africans as a people with common historical antecedent and heritage, [...]

By Obert Simwanza April 29 (Bloomberg) — Zambia’s annual inflation rate declined to 9.2 percent in April as food-price increases slowed, the Central Statistics Office said. Inflation slowed from 10.2 percent in March, the agency said in an e-mailed statement today from the capital, Lusaka. The food-inflation rate dropped to 7.3 percent in the month [...]