President Rupiah Banda will on Tuesday leave for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to attend the World Economic Forum on Africa, his spokesperson Dickson Jere has announced. “The President will be among other African leaders who have been invited to participate in the World Economic Forum sessions whose theme is “Rethinking Africa’s Growth Strategy.”The Forum will also [...]

AFP – Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders named Monday the world’s 40 worst “predators of the press” including politicians, religious leaders and militias to mark World Press Freedom Day. “They are powerful, dangerous, violent and above the law”, the Paris-based watchdog RSF said. “These predators of press freedom have the power to censor, imprison, kidnap, [...]

FDD president Edith Nawakwi has observed that President Rupiah Banda is driving the country to the brink of civil war because he has allowed a “useless policeman” to abuse his office. Commenting on the violence that characterised the campaigns in the Mufumbwe parliamentary by-election, Nawakwi said President Banda was squarely to blame for the violence. [...]

MMD campaign manager in the just ended Mufumbwe by-election Daniel Kalenga has charged that the United Party for National Development (UPND) connived with some polling agents to under-count votes for the ruling party. And MMD national secretary Katele Kalumba has said the ruling party has overwhelming evidence of electoral malpractice by the UPND that the [...]