Zambia’s kwacha has posted its biggest weekly gain this year, hitting a nearly two-month high due to local selling of dollars, in part by companies needing kwacha to pay salaries, traders said. Having opened the week at 5,100 to the dollar, the currency of Africa’s largest copper producer strengthened to as much as 4,920 on [...]

The Lusaka Magistrate Court has convicted Ndola Central Member of Parliament Mark Mushili to Six Months Imprisonment with hard labour for attempting to swindle government of over K300 million. Hononourable Mushili, 65, a resident of Dr Dammie Street Northrise in Ndola was sentenced after being found guilty of attempting to obtain K360, 000 through fake [...]

Washington – Researchers have discovered antibodies that can protect against a wide range of Aids viruses and said they may be able to use them to design a vaccine against the fatal and incurable virus. The bodies of some people make these immune system proteins after they are infected with the Aids virus, when it [...]

Johannesburg – A painting depicting Nelson Mandela as a corpse undergoing an autopsy is causing a stir in a Johannesburg shopping centre, the Mail & Guardian reported on Friday. The painting is a modern take of a 17th century Rembrandt painting called “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tripp” which depicts an autopsy being undertaken [...]

The Zambian government is to spend slightly above K5 billion on a feasibility study for a dry port in Chipata, Eastern Province. A tender promoted by the Zambia ministry of Finance currently circulating and whose eligibility is limited to the European Union (EU) states that the value of the study is 800,000 EUR. “The overall [...]

President Rupiah Banda is on Friday expected to travel to the Eastern Province to attend to a family bereavement, according to his spokesperson Dickson Jere President Banda will leave for Chipata on Friday morning where he is expected to attend to the bereavement. “The President and his delegation are expected to return to Lusaka on [...]

An over zealous would-be voter has been arrested for trying to register two times. Acting Lusaka Town Clerk, Bonwell Lwanga has been quoted saying the would-be voter had registered in Chingola on the Copperbelt and traveled to Lusaka where tried to register somewhere in the  Kanyama slam. Lwanga could not name the arrested man but [...]

Zambia and Brazil have signed an agreement that would remove the requirement of visas by their citizens visiting either country. This is one of the eight agreements and two memoranda of understanding to enhance cooperation which the two countries entered into today. One MoU signed Thursday morning in Zambia relates to Food and Nutritional Security [...]

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