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Opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichilema has appealed to Government to enact the constitution by March 2009. Mr Hichilema said the Zambian government needed to give the people a new constitution because it was obliged to...

For Nalumino Ifunga, a security guard at a quiet campsite and lodge just down the road from Victoria Falls, afternoons often consist of watching vervet monkeys frolic in the trees. But Mr. Ifunga wonders if those monkeys – and...

The opposition United National Independence Party (UNIP) in Livingstone has condemned the manner in which the Zambian  songster Jordan Katembula popularly known as JK sang the national anthem at last evening's Commonwealth Boxing Competition between World champion Easter Phiri...

Zambia National Union of Teachers (ZNUT) has condemned the action by the Zimbabwe Police and related units in their invasion of the Zimbabwe Trade Union offices. ZNUT General Secretary Roy Mwaba says the brutal acts are not only an affront to human...

The opposition United National Independence Party (UNIP) in Livingstone has censured the manner in which the Zambian songster Jordan Katembula popularly known as JK sang the national anthem at last evening's Commonwealth Boxing Competition between World champion Easter Phiri and...

President Levy Mwanawasa has sacked deputy Lands Minister, a close relative, in a corruption crackdown aimed at stopping illegal allocation of housing plots, a presidential aide said on Monday. Deputy Lands Minister Moses Muteteka, who is married to a niece...

Patriotic Front (PF) President Michael Sata has threatened to drag the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC), Times of Zambia and the Zambian Attorney General for allegedly reporting that he was deported from Malawi on suspicion that he was a...

President Mwanawasa has sent a message of sympathy to Botswana President Festus Mogae following his sudden illness. President Mogae has since been flown to South Africa for an emergency operation in South Africa on a suspected rapture of a tendon...

A Lusaka-based clergyman wants President Mwanawasa to intervene and stop the ongoing demolition of alleged illegal structures by the Lusaka City Council, LCC. Christ Impact Ministries, Prophet Hastings Mzumara, told ZANIS in an interview that president Mwanawasa should immediately intervene in...

Zambia's Mopani Copper Mines (MCM) agreed on Wednesday to a 20% salary rise with workers, Mine Workers Union of Zambia (Muz) general secretary Oswell Munyenyembe told Reuters. Munyenyembe said the unions had initially asked for 80% while management had offered...