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President Levy Mwanawasa announced Thursday that Zambia had secured a loan of 39 million dollars from China to be used for repairing infrastructure that has been destroyed by floods. Mwanawasa said the money from Beijing will be used to procure...

The Movement for Multiparty and Democracy(MMD) in Eastern Province has called on their party's National Chairman for Elections to allow them hold elections at grassroot level. Zephaniah Kaleya who is MMD Youth Secretary for Mambwe district said that Mr. Mike Mulongoti...

Fomer Works and Supply minister Ludwig Sondashi has said that the herbal remedy discovery work he is currently involved in will not keep him from seeking the MMD presidency in 2011. Dr Sondashi dismissed suggestions he could be too busy...

The Lusaka High Court has granted an application to stay judgment of the court which nullified election results for Nalolo constituency in Western Province. The court last week nullified the election of Nalolo constituency member of Parliament, Mubita Mwangala of...

Donegal International - described by critics as a "vulture fund" -had its claim against Zambia cut by nearly three-quarters on Tuesday after the judge said the dishonesty of key witnesses had made the trial more complex than ­necessary. Donegal...

The National Assembly of Zambia has approved the  decision to open a constituency office in Mufulira Central Constituency on the Copperbelt. And the decision to open the local  parliamentary constituency office has cheered both the civic authorities and parliamentarians in...

President Mwanawasa has appointed Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Mike Mulongoti as the new Information and Broadcasting Minister, with imnmeadiate effect. And Mr Mwanawasa has dropped Health minister Angela Cifire and has replaced her with Science, Technology and Vocational Training Minister Dr...

Albidon Zambia limited, Munali Nickle Mine Management in Mazabuka has denied media reports  that two of its employees have been arrested by the Drug Enforcement Commission(DEC)for drug trafficking. Mine Manager, Sixtus Mulenga told ZANIS in Mazabuka today that the two...

MMD spokesperson, Benny Tetamashimba, has warned that party members of Parliament (MPs) whose seats are nullified because of corrupt practices will not be adopted to re-contest their seats. In an interview in Lusaka yesterday, Mr Tetamashimba warned that the party...

Opposition Patriotic Front Kankoyo Member of Parliament Percy Chanda has described the monthly wages for workers engaged by ZAM-Chin contractors to construct houses in Mufulira as slavery. And Mufulira town clerk, Charles Mwandila, has asked the workers who are complaining to...