Young African Leaders Initiative YALI has denounced Attorney General Mumba Malila’s move to appeal against the High Court judgment which quashed the decision by Chief Registrar of Societies Clement Andeleki to de-register the opposition MMD. YALI Board Chairperson Andrew Ntwetwe is against the idea describing it as dictatorial. Mr. Ntwewe says YALI believes in a [...]

Livingstone Tourism Association (LTA) chairman Kingsley Lilamono says the statutory Instrument number 33 of 2012 (SI 33) has a possibility of affecting the tourism industry negatively especially during the UNWTO. Mr Lilamono said most operators in Livingstone have been quoting prices in dollars and tourists have found it easy because they understand and know their [...]

A suspended Chairman of the Nigerian House of Representatives Committee on Monitoring of Subsidy Regime, Farouk Lawan, who appeared before the house committee on Ethics and Privileges on Thursday, admitted taking “money” and “not a bribe” from oil businessman, Mr. Femi Otedola. The committee is investigating the $620,000 bribery allegation. Lawan who tried drawing a [...]

OPPOSITION political parties in Zambia have a responsibility to unite and speak with one voice on behalf of the poor people, MMD president Nevers Mumba has said. Dr Mumba said it was his job as MMD leader to criticise policies which were injurious to the country. He was speaking in Livingstone yesterday at Villa Ground [...]

CRITICISM of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20, have rained down from the moment that the draft version was known until the definitive document was signed.   Barack Obama did not even attend the event; neither did Angel Merkel and other European leaders in general. While the Rio+20 Earth Summit might not [...]

Ian Chamunora Nyarungwe Haruperi, the man who grabbed through court, Kalusha Bwalya’ s mansion in Woodlands seems to be a member of a regional network of crooks specializing in fraudulent seizing of immovable property by operating an opaque loan scheme. Read the story below published in January 2011, by Zimbabwe’s Independence newspaper linking Haruperi to [...]