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Zambia Ritual Killings Cause of Concern

Zambia Ritual Killings Cause of Concern

Barely two weeks after the shocking murder of an albino woman in Lundazi, another teenage girl of Kapiri Mposhi has been brutally murdered in yet another unnerving sequel of suspected random ritual killings. The body of the girl was found naked with her tongue and both breasts ripped off. Enough is enough. We would love […]

16 Teenagers Arrested At Kanyama Brothel in Lusaka

16 Teenagers Arrested At Kanyama Brothel in Lusaka

Police in Lusaka have arrested nine girls, five boys and two adults allegedly caught having sex at a house which was allegedly being used as a brothel in Kanyama township. The 65-year-old owner of the house has also been arrested for allegedly using her property as a brothel. Lusaka Province commissioner of police Charity Katanga […]

Zambia Mushrooming ‘Boarding Houses Boost HIV Infections’

Zambia Mushrooming ‘Boarding Houses Boost HIV Infections’

Kitwe District AIDS coordination advisor has attributed the high HIV/AIDS infection rate in the district to the mushrooming boarding houses. Regina Katongo said during the Kitwe District AIDS Task force (DATF) stakeholders meeting yesterday that the mushrooming boarding houses in the district were partly responsible for the escalating HIV/AIDS infection rate. This follows the statistics […]

Zambia Gets Funding for Capacity Building

Zambia Gets Funding for Capacity Building

THE European Union has given Zambia €1.1 million (approximately K8.8 million) for capacity building in public financial management. EU delegation to Zambia and Comesa head of cooperation Aad Biesebroek said the project would be implemented over a period of three years. Mr Biesebroak said this in Lusaka on Wednesday during the launch of the public […]

Ban Recieves Report Probing New Information On Dag Hammarskjöld’s Death

Ban Recieves Report Probing New Information On Dag Hammarskjöld’s Death

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been handed the report of experts he appointed a few months ago to examine and assess new information relating to the tragic death of Dag Hammarskjöld, and his party. The second Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Hammarskjöld served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash […]

President Edgar Lungu Mourns With Ghana

President Edgar Lungu Mourns With Ghana

President Edgar Lungu has expressed sadness at the death of more than 200 people in an explosion at a petrol station in Ghana. President Lungu, however, noted that Zambia could draw lessons from the disaster in Accra by avoiding having highly inflammable substances in densely populated areas. He said when he signed in the book […]

Zambia Typhoid Outbreak Causes Alarm

Zambia Typhoid Outbreak Causes Alarm

The Lusaka City Council (LCC) has closed 30 schools in Kanyama Township following the outbreak of typhoid which has since claimed one life. Meanwhile, Government has scaled up preventive measures to arrest the disease and ensure that it does not spread to other parts of Lusaka and the country at large. Typhoid fever is a […]

Who Is Pilato And Where Did He Come From?

Who Is Pilato And Where Did He Come From?

HIS rise to Zambian music stardom was swift. When he first started out, his lyrical content would leave everyone dazzled with thoughts, opinion and something to say. Born Chama Fumba in one of Ndola’s sprawling townships, Pilato’s upbringing was rough. His time in one of the cities poorest neighborhoods brought him close to the pitfalls […]

‘MISSING’ UPND Cadre Discharged From Hospital

‘MISSING’ UPND Cadre Discharged From Hospital

Opposition Party for National Development cadre Mushaukwa Mushaukwa, who was nursing a gunshot wound at Livingstone Central Hospital has been discharged from hospital. Police Spokesperson Charity Munganga-Chanda disputed the opposition political party’s claims that Mushaukwa had gone missing from his hospital bed in Livingstone. Mushaukwa was shot at on Saturday when suspected UPND cadres allegedly […]

Zambia:Catholic Priest arrested for having an affair

Zambia:Catholic Priest arrested for having an affair

A CATHOLIC priest in Mwense has been fined K 5,500 by a local court for having an affair with a married woman.40 year old Mwense Parish priest Father Kennedy Kachinga appeared before Mwense Boma Presiding Local Court Magistrate Charles Kasenge.Facts before the court are that Father Kachinga was seeing a local businessman’s wife. The court […]

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