Zambia’s opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has asked the Lusaka High Court to grant waiver of immunity for President Michael Sata in a defamation suit the Head of State has brought to court. Hichilema says there will be no level playing field if the case where President Sata sued him for defamation proceeded without a waiver [...]

PRESIDENT Sata says Government is this year targeting a seven percent growth in the economy, which he is confident shall be attained. The President also wants the country to maintain a single digit year-end inflation. President Sata has also said his economic managers will ensure Government borrowing is managed and the exchange rate remains stable [...]

A 23-YEAR-OLD woman of Lusaka has drowned in a swimming pool at a lodge after a drinking spree. The incident happened on Wednesday around 21:00 hours in Mtendere when the victim, in the company of friends, decided to swim after taking alcohol. This is according to a statement issued in Lusaka yesterday by police acting [...]

The UPND has disassociated itself from the facebook posting by UNZA don Choolwe Beyani that has been published by the Zambian Watchdog that Nevers Mumba visits State House. According to senior source within the UPND National Management Committee, the facebook comment by Choolwe Beyani was his personal opinion and not party position. According to the [...]

Malawian President Joyce Banda will take a 30 percent pay cut as part of a broader effort to get the country’s budget under control, a top government official revealed Friday. “In support of the austerity measures, the president and the vice president have voluntarily decided to reduce their monthly salaries by 30 percent with immediate [...]

Hundreds of people (Friday) attended the funeral of wife to Zambia’s first president Kenneth Kaunda after she died in Zimbabwe last week aged 83. The funeral service was incident free unlike last time when it was charactarised by violence by PF cadres who wanted to beat-up UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema. During a requiem service at [...]

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States accused Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Thursday of sinking to a “new low” by comparing the death of U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens to that of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. “(Mugabe) cynically chose to compare the best of us with the worst of us, a ridiculous and [...]

Zambia’s annual rate of inflation for the month of September increased, according to figures released Thursday by the southern African country’s Central Statistical Office (CSO). The inflation rose from 6.4 percent recorded last month to 6.6 percent. “The increase is attributed to increases in prices of food and some non-food items,” John Kalumbi, the CSO [...]

The following message has been posted on Facebook: ‘PF cadres to wear UPND attire tomorrow [today] and cause havoc at Mama Betty’s burial tomorrow,, the POST photographers have been told to position themselves for pictures…some to wear suits and sit close to HH in order to harm him.’ Meanwhile, Zambia Reports writes that the PF [...]

A small ant-hill will be buried in the half grave that was prepared for the former First Lady Mama Betty Kaunda at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali District of Muchinga Province where she was initially to be buried. Senior Chief Nkula of the Bemba speaking People of Chinsali disclosed this in Mpika today when Colonel Panji [...]