The Linyungandambo and other people who are pushing for separation and independence of Barotseland (Western province) from Zambia have created an official information portal on the internet. The website, www.barotseland.info, which appears to be still undergoing construction, contains Barotseland National symbols and government departments. An explanatory note on the website states that: ‘As the Barotseland [...]

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will next week visit Zambia. Ban will meet with President Michael Sata and other senior officials and address a special session of the country’s National Assembly, where he is also due to interact with the leaders of several parliamentary bodies. He will also visit a United Nations-supported initiative that uses life skills [...]

Chiefs of Southern province meeting in Choma have vowed to oppose Government’s          decision to transfer the administration of Chirundu and Itezhi Tezhi districts to Lusaka and central provinces respectively. The Chiefs have also challenged Home affairs minister Kennedy Sakeni to arrest them for resisting the Presidential decree to re-align the two districts. This is [...]

By Mwape Proculious As Strategic Youth Organisation, a legally registered youth organisation under the societies act cap 119 of the laws of Zambia, we regret with deep sorrow the failure  by the PF government to address the ethically unacceptable morals being practised by the Christians citizens of the country (Christian Nation). One of most serious issues that made us think of [...]

President Sata needed to gather courage and fire Kambwili instead of retaining him in the Cabinet at great cost to the taxpayer considering the costs to be involved by the Kambwili-caused restructuring. Kambwili lacks what it takes to be Cabinet Minister unless he can work on himself and learn that hooliganism has its place. President Sata will soon be embarrassed by the same untouchables of his.

That they may have abundant life (John 10:10) A Pastoral Statement To the Catholic faithful and all people of goodwill. Grace, mercy and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent [...]

The PF government has proposed to increase electricity tariffs from  May 1, 2012 for both consumer and commercial users. According to the advertisement in today’s daily newspapers on revision of tariffs, the government owned power utility firm, Zesco, has proposed various electricity  increases for both domestic and commercial users with effect from May 2012. According [...]

Rwandan refugees in Zambia have continued living in fear of being betrayed and sent back to Rwanda where they will face imprisonment or death. The fear by the refugees some of them who came into Zambia in 1994 has been heightened by the so called ‘cessation clause’ that the Zambian government is following. The cessation [...]

In regard to Zambians who come from the other provinces, who do not wish to understand that theWesternProvincehas a legitimate claim to be part of Zambia on a different basis to the rest of us. We cannot in good conscience try to gloss over and arrogantly dismiss this fact, as has been the practice in the past. We as the rest ofZambiamade a deal with the BarotseKingdom. We must now in all good faith acknowledge that we did not keep the agreement. Our partners in the broken agreement have clearly not been happy with our behavior for a long while. Let’s come together and put it right in our time. We can take advantage of the constitutional debate now in place in the country and try to settle once and for all this very important national issue for the good of our country.