By IREEN MULENGA Minister of Youth Sport and Arts Elvis Nkandu says Government is commitment to improving infrastructure development in the country. Mr Nkandu said the slow pace in infrastructure development has been hampered by huge debts that government inherited since ascending to power. He said Zambians need to be patient with the new dawn […]

Ethiopians living in Kenya’s capital Nairobi are holding demonstrations against the alleged abduction of a businessman three months ago. Samson Teklemichael was taken out of his car in broad daylight by people believed to be police officers. His whereabouts remains unknown and the Ethiopian embassy in Kenya has asked the government for information about him. […]

Burkina Faso’s transitional president, Lt Col Paul-Henri Damiba, has called for an investigation to assess fatal events during the 24 January military coup. Two civilians were killed and a dozen others were injured by stray bullets during the military takeover, according to a statement released by the presidency. Mr Damiba ordered that the families of […]

By MAIMBO MWEEMBA Kamwala Ward Councillor Mainda Simataa has reported former Kabwata Member of Parliament Given Lubinda to the Anti-Corruption Commission for being in possession of community property (Kamwala Play Park) reasonably believed to have been corruptly acquired. Mr Simataa also reported Andrew Lwenje the Chairman of Given Lubinda Foundation, who is also a teacher […]

By CLOZZEN BIKALE Minister of Youth, Sports and Art, Elvis Nkandu says over K2.5 million has also been recovered from beneficiaries of other youth empowerment programs under his ministry. Mr Nkandu said Government has in the last five months recovered about K17 million as loan repayments from beneficiaries of the fuel tankers. “In the last five […]

By MAIMBO MWEEMBA Labour and Social Security Minister Brenda Tambatamba says about 2.7 million children are engaged in unpaid work activities in Zambia Ms Tambataba said the estimated number of children in child labour was about 430 thousand while those involved in hazardous child labour was about 29 thousand. She said that rural areas had […]

By IREEN MULENGA The Zambia National Farmers’ Union (ZNFU) says the country will risk over K23 million worth of onions going to waste if the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) continued the authorization and importation of onions and potatoes into the country. Zambia National Farmers’ Union President Jervis Zimba said that they have always engaged the […]

Seven children have been killed in Niger in an air strike by the Nigerian army targeting “bandits”, a local governor and state media have said. Five more were hurt in the apparently accidental strike, the governor of Niger’s Maradi region told AFP. Governor Chaibou Aboubacar said four were killed instantly and three died on their […]