Kenya Upholds Law Criminalising Gay Sex
Kenya’s High Court has ruled against campaigners seeking to overturn a law banning gay sex. The three judges rejected claims that the colonial-era law violated the new constitution, which guarantees...
View ArticleZesco, Zanaco Qualify for Continental Football Next Season
Defending league champions Zesco United and Zanaco Football Club have qualified to the 2019/2020 CAF Champions League and Confederation Cup respectively after winning their final Stream A matches this...
View ArticleEAZ Signs Media MoU with CT Productions for Lstone Summit
The Economics Association of Zambia has signed an MOU with CT Productions that will bring CNN and the Economist magazine to the National Economic Summit to be held in Livingstone at Avani Victoria...
View ArticleAU Extols KK on Africa Day
The African Union (AU) has recognized Zambia’s founder president and Africa’s foremost statesman, Dr Kenneth Kaunda for his lifetime commitment to Africa’s liberation. During the celebrations to mark...
View ArticleChakwera gets Injunction on Malawi Election Results Announcement
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has sought a court order restraining the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) from making announcement of Presidential results, reportedly. According to the injunction,...
View ArticlePF GS Puts Party Development Drive in Perspective
BY Hon Davies Mwila INTRODUCTION While certain quarters have made it a full time vocation to spread messages of doom and gloom and spread negative sentiments about our country, the reality is that...
View Article‘Team Kopala’ Buildcon Seals CAF Spot
The line-up for teams to compete in the 2019 ABSA Cup, formerly Barclays Cup has been completed with Ndola based Buildcon joining Zesco United, Green Eagles and Zanaco Football Club. Buildcon also...
View ArticleZesco Announces Four-Daily Load Shedding
Zesco has announcement the commencement of daily four-hour load shedding starting from June 1, 2019. Systems operations manager Abraham Sashi revealed this at a stakeholders’ meeting in Kitwe saying...
View ArticleParty Unity Takes Centre Stage at PF Central Committee Meeting
The Patriotic Front Central Committee yesterday convened a meeting chaired by President Edgar Lungu at which intra-party unity was discussed. Republican Vice-President Inonge Wina, who was unwell, also...
View ArticleKitwe Council Seizes Alcohol from Illegal Traders
The Kitwe City Council has seized an assortment of alcohol worth K75, 000 from illegal liquor traders. The move follows an operation by the local authority to check compliance levels among liquor...
View ArticleUnion Asks Luo to Reopen CBU
The Copperbelt University Academic Union has appealed to higher education minister Professor Nkandu Luo to immediately reopen the institution of higher learning which has been closed for almost two...
View ArticleLusaka Councillors Meet to Discuss Sanitation By-law
The Mayor of Lusaka Miles Sampa has urged Councillors to quicken the process of formulating an On-site Sanitation by-law to improve sanitation in Capital City. Sampa said bad on-site sanitation had...
View ArticleHH Advises Govt to Ditch Sales Tax
UPND president Hakainde Hichilema has advised the PF government to abandon its proposal for the General Sales Tax meant to replace the Value Added Tax. Hichilema, an economist, has stated that the...
View ArticleKambwili Calls for Reversal of KCM Liquidation
Embattled NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili has urged the government to immediately consider reversing the liquidation of Konkola Copper Mines KCM. Kambwili has said the best option is for government to...
View ArticleSesheke By-election Petition Judgment on Tomorrow
The Lusaka High Court is tomorrow, May 28, set to deliver judgment in the case in which Patriotic Front (PF) Sesheke Constituency losing parliamentary candidate in the February 12 by-election Dean...
View ArticlePresident Mutharika Re-elected after Court Battle
Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika has been narrowly elected to a second term in office with 38.5% of the vote. The incumbent leader, 78, had faced stiff competition in the 21 May election, including...
View ArticleChipolopolo Leave for Cosafa Today
Chipolopolo stand-in coach Aggrey Chiyangi says he is confident that the 20-member squad he has picked for the 2019 Cosafa championship will go far at the tournament. Speaking before the afternoon...
View Article45 Die in DRC Boat Accident…200 Missing
At least 45 people have died after a boat sank on Lake Mai-Ndombe in western Democratic Republic of Congo. The provincial governor, Antoine Masamba, said the vessel was carrying more than 400 people,...
View ArticleMagistrate Warns Kambwili of Trial without Lawyers in Forgery Case
Principal Resident Magistrate David Simusamba has warned embattled NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili that he will proceed with trial in the absence of his lawyers in the matter he is facing three counts of...
View Article2 Mpika Men Jailed 5 Years for Ivory Possession
Chinsali Senior Magistrate Chinkashi Chilingala has sentenced two men of Mpika to five years imprisonment for allegedly being in possession of elephant ivory contrary to the Laws of Zambia. This is in...
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