The Patriotic Front (PF) is providing its cadres from Copperbelt and Lusaka with voters cards to take part in the Mufumbwe parliamentary bye-election. And some of the police officers who have been dispatched to Mufumbwe will also be given voters cards to vote for PF as part of the rigging formula. And President Michael Sata [...]

A concerned citizen Brebner Changala has questioned the continued bickering and early campaigns in PF to unseat President Michael Sata who still has four more years in his term and constitutionally run for another term in office. Mr. Changala said he gets extremely worried when senior PF party leaders who are supposed to concentrate on [...]

The case in which former Transport and Communication Minister Dora Siliya is charged with abuse of office has taken a new twist with key prosecution witness telling the Lusaka Magistrate Court that Ms Siliya was not the Minister of Communication when the process to acquire a new Radar for the then Lusaka International Airport commenced. [...]

Vice President Guy Scott has cautioned Zambians against voting for leaders who have no capacity to develop their areas. And Dr. Scott has urged the people of Mufumbwe to rally behind the Patriotic Front candidate in the November 8 parliamentary by-election Stephen Masumba. Dr. Scott said the people of Zambia need proper representation at decision [...]

Chief Resident Magistrate (CRM) Joshua Banda has set dates for mention and subsequent trial in a case in which opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) president Hakainde Hichilema is facing one count of false publication of news with intent to alarm the public. Chief Resident Magistrate Banda made the ruling Monday afternoon against the [...]

Zambia’s kwacha, which slumped to a four-month low last week, is again seen under strain in the coming week due to strong demand for dollars in the energy sector. Other economic performance indicators are also worsening under the PF government with the inflation rate increasing by 0.2 percentage points from 6.6 per cent recorded in [...]

Farmers who supplied maize to the Food Reserve Agency today stormed the Kitwe district Commissioner’s office in protest for non- payment of their dues. The farmers from Kitwe and Lufwanyama districts complained that they need their money for them to buy the farming inputs for this year’s farming season. They wondered why the banks were [...]

The vice president for peace programs at the US-based Carter Center, John Stremlau, has disclosed that former Zambian President Rupiah Banda will lead the organization’s poll observer mission to monitor Sierra Leone’s November 17th general election. The former Zambian leader is currently in Ghana to to lecture Democratic norms at the University of Ghana. “I welcome [...]

UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema was this weekend in the Eastern province town of Petauke. He has since returned to Lusaka en-route to Mufumbwe in North-western province to campaign for the MMD parliamentary candidate. Hichilema was encouraged by the positive reception he received from Petauke residents and  has promised to go back this time to tour the entire province and explain to [...]

Over 300 PF supporters in Mufumbwe have defected to the MMD. The defection of the 300 cadres follows the decision by PF campaign manager Jean Kapata and PF candidate Masumba to expel nine party officials. The nine officials and their over 300 supporters have vowed to shame the PF by campaigning for the MMD candidate [...]