MMD Lusaka province chairman william banda says, he has not yet endorsed any mmd party presidential candidate. Banda has since said, his attendance of former foreign affairs minister Kabinga Pande’s press confenrence, where he declared his intentions to vie for the position of party president, does not mean he will back him at the coming [...]

President Michael Sata caused drama at Speke Resort Munyonyo in Uganda after he  defied the orders of the Ugandan protocol officials  to follow security routine. Sata is in Uganda to attend the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) heads of state summit. Sata who arrived at the summit an hour before his host [...]

The Zambia congress of trade unions (ZCTU) has denied claims of it supporting the former rulling movement for multi party democracy (MMD). And the Congress has rejected president Sata’s proposed retirement age from 55 to 65 describing it as unrealistic. Addressing journalists in Lusaka today, ZCTU general secretary Roy Mwaba said the congress has never [...]

AP spokesperson Paul Colford said: “They are not surveillance cameras. Along with other media, the AP has preparedness around Mr Mandela’s eventual passing. The AP cameras were not switched on and would only be used in the event of a major news story involving the former president.”

Colford added: ”We had similar preparedness outside the Vatican ahead of Pope John Paul II’s passing.”