Solwezi town in Northwestern province has been engulfed in darkness  since Saturday night. Power was cut in the wh0le town around 19 hours and no explanation had been given by Sunday evening Only kansanshi mine has power  but it was not clear if the mine was using generators. On Friday and most of Saturday, it [...]

Armed police have been deployed at Kabwe’s Mulungushi university a few hours after students declared that they would not sit for exams tommorrow until they are addressed by Justice minister Wynter Kabimba. The students who joined their colleagues at UNZA and CBU to protest ailing dictator Michael Sata’s removal of maize and fuel subsidies demanded [...]

The United Party for National Development (UPND) have notified the Zambia police of their intention to hold a rally in Lusaka’s Chawama compound on Sunday 26th May 2013. In a letter dated 16th May 2013 addressed to Lusaka Police Commissioner and received by a Constable Nundwe on the same day, the opposition party say they [...]

Editor, It is very disappointing to see the direction our beloved nation is heading. The PF (BUFI) government have hurt this nation worse just like the Kaunda era. They are treating us the voters as though they are not accountable to anyone. The resignation of opposition leaders, is betrayal of morality and the recent resignation of [...]

PF Copperbelt province youth secretary Chanda Kabwe has accused some mine houses of sponsoring some students at Copperbelt University of staging demonstrations against the removal of fuel subsidies. Mr Kabwe said his party has information that some mining firms have released money to support demonstrations against removal of fuel subsidies  by students. “We have information [...]

At a media briefing in Lusaka Saturday morning, UPND president Hakainde Hichilema said the following: The removal of meal mill, fuel and agriculture subsidies is a wrong decision. The increase electricity tariff is also a wrong decision. You may want to know why this is so and why this government is doing this. It is [...]

The opposition National Restoration Party (NAREP) leader Elias Chipimo jr . says the removal of subsidies by government is regrettable. And speaking earlier, NAREP National Secretary Reverend Jevan Kamanga called on senior officers who will occupy offices at the new headquarters to work hard and promote the vision of the party. Mr. Chipimo says government [...]

The protest at Zambia’s third public university, Mulungushi has continued and students have demanded that senior government officials address them on their demands of bursaries, poor infrastructure and reintroduction of the mealie meal and fuel subsidy withdrawn by the government. After running battles with police last night in which four male students were apprehended but [...]

THREE MMD councilors have defected from the opposition party to the ruling PF citing infighting and political witch hunting in the former ruling party. PF District Political Secretary (DPS) Beatrice Changala confirmed the development in an interview in Mpulungu District, today. Ms. Changala said that the trio had defected to the ruling PF due to [...]