A judge has found a gay couple guilty of unnatural acts and gross indecency after a trial that has sparked condemnation from Europe and America of Malawi’s laws on homosexuality. Blantyre chief resident magistrate Nyakwawa Usiwa issued the ruling Tuesday . The couple are facing up to 14 years in prison with hard labour after [...]

MMD National Secretary Katele Kalumba has told former Luena MP Charles Milupi that he will certainly lose the parliamentary seat when the bye-election is called. Kalumba wondered why Milupi decided to resign as MP when he knew that there were bigger parties that would easily get the seat from him. Kalumba said that Milupi’s newly [...]

The United Party for National Development (UPND) has warned the Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) to stop beating up people in Mufumbwe. UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma this morning revealed that the MMD has continued the trail of violence in Mufumbwe despite having lost the bye-election a long time ago. Kakoma warned that if the MMD [...]

BBC World Service’s interactive radio programme for Africa, Network Africa, has been granted rare access to State Houses in five African countries for exclusive interviews with the First Ladies of Ghana, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia. The BBC’s Veronique Edwards travelled to the five countries to meet up and interview the First Ladies. The [...]

UPND vice-president Richard Kapita has observed that Zambia’s tag of being a peaceful country will fade away next year because William Banda wants President Rupiah Banda to be re-elected at all cost. Commenting on William Banda’s statement that he sent 2,000 MMD cadres to protect Fredrick Chiluba who was on a campaign trail for President [...]

OPPOSITION Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) vice-president Chifumu Banda has said there is nothing wrong with the current composition of Cabinet because it takes care of professionalism and fair represenmtation of all regions. He said it was impossible to meet the prescription of tribal balancing in the allocation of Cabinet portfolios in Zambia, which [...]