By KASONDE KASONDE – KABWE High Court judge-in-charge Mwiinde Siavwapa has sentenced three men to 25 and 20 years imprisonment each for defilement. The three were facing separate cases of defilement when they came before...

By SYLVIA MWEETWA – THE office of the Chief Justice has allowed the Kabwe High Court to hold a double session sitting next month in a bid to clear a backlog of cases committed to...

By BRIAN HATYOKA – GREENPOP, an organisation which promotes tree planting, is planning to plant more than 4, 000 trees in various parts of Livingstone during the next three weeks to promote a green and...

By JULIUS PHIRI – UNITED Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that there has been a remarkable rise in primary and secondary school enrolment across Africa over the past 10 years. In a message...

By MAYA NTANDA – AN eighteen-year-old mother of Chingola has poisoned and killed her two-year-old child in unclear circumstances. The teenage mother is believed to have administered doom pesticide to her child, killing her instantly...

AT the end of the first round of group matches, things were not looking too good for African teams. Only Ivory Coast managed to win, with Algeria, Cameroun and Ghana beaten and Nigeria held to...

BY BRYSON SOMPA – Wildlife conservation is the practice of protecting endangered plant and animal species and their habitats. Among the goals of wildlife conservation are to ensure that nature will be around for future...

By XAVIER MANCHISHI – ZAMBIA and China have signed two economic and technical cooperation agreements each worth more than 200 million Chinese Yuan Renminbi (about US$ 32 million). Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda signed on behalf...

By CHARITY MOONGA – GOVERNMENT collected K4.36 billion as total revenue from mining companies during the period between January to December 2013. Finance and National Planning Minister Alexander Chikwanda said in Parliament that of the...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has affirmed a B-plus rating on Zambia’s economic outlook following the improvement on the country’s sovereign risk score by four points in the first half of...