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The Center for Elections and Governance (CEG) Zambia has welcomed government’s decision to close Alliance University College of Ndola. CEG Zambia Trustee Gershom Musonda said the country’s education system is being weakened by sub-standard education services by the private sector. Mr....

Government has urged stakeholders in the tourism industry to market Zambia to other countries in the world as an affordable tourist destination. Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources Minister, Michael Kaingu, said the recently introduced visa fees on tourists from other...

The Roads Development Agency (RDA) has suspended five of its officers working at Kapiri Mposhi weighbridge for misappropriating funds. RDA Head of Public Relations, Loyce Saili has confirmed the development. Ms. Saili said the five officers were suspended last week after...

Acting Supreme Court Judge, Timothy Kabalata has sentenced a 70 year old man and another 42 year man both of Lusaka's kuomboka township to death for aggravated robbery. This was after 70 year old Simon Nyirenda and his accomplice John...

By Michael Malakata , IDG News Service , 06/06/2008 The Zambian government has invited the private sector, including ISPs (Internet service providers), civil societies and mobile telecommunication companies, to help the government provide ICT services in rural areas. The Zambian...

One hundred and nine families (109)and several Government departments in itezhi-tezhi district have been evicted from the Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation (ZESCO)houses and offices respectively. This came to light today when the district called an urgent District Development Coordinating Committee...

Before a crowd of cheering thousands,Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, taking a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the...

A Zambian Citizen with relatives in South Africa has expressed worry over the safety of his relatives in that country. Sydney Kayombo said since the attacks began in south Africa, he had failed to communicate with them. Watching images on violence...

The Zambia Police Service has refuted media reports that Chawama police officers brutally assaulted Maxwell Mambwe. In a Press Statement to ZANIS today Commissioner of Police Francis Kabonde said the service high command is appalled with the Monitor and Digest...

President Levy Mwanawasa has expressed satisfaction at the outcome of the just ended fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 1V) in the Japanese coastal town of Yokohama. Dr Mwanawasa said TICAD 1V adopted the Yokohama Declaration which summarises...