Former UN Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan has died at age 80, a UN agency confirmed Saturday. Annan, who was born in Ghana in 1938, served as the seventh UN Secretary-General, from 1997 to 2006, and was the first to rise from within the ranks of the United Nations staff. He had […]
Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) has commended Inspector General of Police Kakoma Kanganja for suspending the four traffic police officers who had mounted a roadblock along Mungwi road where they were getting bribes from traffic offenders TIZ Executive Director, Wesley Chibamba says the suspension of the named officers will act as a deterrent measure to other […]
In the east of Ethiopia more than 100 vehicles have been returned to their owners after they were looted during ethnic clashes earlier this month. Religious leaders and elders have been calling for reconciliation and urged people to return whatever they had seized during the unrest. Officials in Jigjiga city say looted cash has also […]
Kambwili says PF is stage-managing defections to hoodwink people into believing the party is still popular. The NDC Leader Chishimba Kambwili has observed that PF was staging defections. “The defections you are seeing are stage-managed defections, the people that have been announced, especially the senior members that have been announced that they have defected from […]
NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili says his 20 trucks are just parked at his Luanshya house because the PF has made it impossible for him to conduct business in Zambia. Speaking on Hot FM’s Hot Seat, Thursday, Kambwili observed that only PF supporters and sympathizers were able to conduct business freely in Zambia. “What PF has […]
When we saw a statement from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services announcing that Cabinet had approved a decision to introduce an extra charge on WhatsApp and all other Internet calls, we were almost certain that it was a hoax. The information contained in the statement wasn’t just tying up. But then we remembered […]
A 49 Year old Lusaka based woman only identified as Evelyn has altered the controversy of the corrupt cops caught with K2,890 today after she ‘accidentally sent her nude pictures and a video of her private parts to a WhatsApp group. The pictures and a clip landed into the sight of nosy people who are […]
South Africa has banned the importation of honey from Zambia. In a letter to South African honey importers, the agriculture department said American Foulbrood disease had been detected in samples from two locations in Zambia. American Foulbrood is a serious bacterial disease capable of killing a bee colony. There is no cure – and it […]
Police in south-western Tanzania have started arresting the residents of a village for vandalising some water pipes. The arrest of the entire village of Ngola was ordered by the area’s regional commissioner Albert Chalamila on Wednesday. The residents are suspected of destroying a water facility worth about $20,000 (£16,000) in Masheye village, which is in […]
FORMER Football Association of Zambia president Simataa Simataa says he has no doubt banned soccer icon Kalusha Bwalya will bounce back stronger and wiser. Simataa, who in the past was critical of the Bwalya-led FAZ executive, has advised the African soccer legend not to appeal a recent two-year ban slapped on him by FIFA because […]