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POLICE are warning the public against sharing false information after a social media post claimed 1,180 people were being held in Lusaka cells on politically motivated charges. Assistant Public Relations Officer Timothy Malumo told the newsroom that the public should rely on official Zambia Police Service channels for verified information. He said the Police Service did

Economic Expert Maxwell Chungu has expressed concern […]

 INSIGHT | Is the presidency becoming a two-bloc contest? Zambia still has a multiparty system on paper. The ballot can carry more than a dozen presidential candidates. Parliament can contain several political parties and independents. But the presidential numbers since the 2016 constitutional reforms are beginning to tell a different story. The requirement for […]

BM, MZ IN HIGH SPIRITS TO CONTINUE ‘INDEPENDENCE’ FIGHT AFTER CUSTODY – AKA‎… the fact Mundubile is a political prisoner today like his father was under the colonialists, shows we are not yet independent ‎Brian Mundubile, Makebi Zulu and the other ‘political prisoners’ are in high spirits and confident that they shall be released from […]

 BRIEFING | Mwaliteta warns anti-Hichilema civil servants, ‘These five years will be difficult for you’ UPND Kafue West Member of Parliament Obvious Mwaliteta has warned civil servants who openly opposed President Hakainde Hichilema during the August 13 election, saying public officers working against the administration should not expect to remain comfortably within government. Mwaliteta […]

A consortium of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) has charged that Zambia has descended into a constitutional crisis following the disputed August 13th General Elections. The organisations say the alleged arbitrary cancellation of the passports of six Zambians perceived to be critics of the UPND administration is another indication of what they describe as the country’s […]

UPND maybe trying to accommodate an ‘erratic’ losing candidate in Mafinga to stop them ‘spilling the beans’ – Kalaba ‎Citizens First (CF) leader Harry Kalaba says he suspects that there is a scheme to nullify the seat held by the party’s Faith Munthali in Mafinga South, in order to accommodate “an erratic” losing candidate from […]

By Hopewell Chin’ono It is absolutely correct that I supported Hakainde Hichilema when he was in opposition. When he became President and appeared to start well, I continued supporting him. Just like you, many people warned me. Some were Zambians, while others were people in South Africa who knew him better than I did. They […]

POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER SIKORSKI SAYS POLAND COULD DEFEAT RUSSIA QUICKLY IF ATTACKED Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has claimed that Poland could defeat Russia relatively quickly if Moscow launched an attack and Warsaw fully mobilized its military capabilities. “If Russia attacked us and we took the gloves off, I think we would defeat Russia fairly […]