By GETHSEMANE MWIZABI – ZAMBIAN filmmaker and human rights activist Catherine Kaseketi has been appointed as coordinator for Artwatch Africa for Zambia and Southern Africa. Meanwhile, Zambian activist and musician (former Shatel) Saboi Imboela has...

By AMOS ZULU – IN 2001, HIV/AIDS was declared as social and economic issue and it remained a critical component of the Fifth and Sixth National Development Plans (FNDP). The FNDP run from 2006 to...

By SAM PHIRI – IT is a lucid fact that the capital city of Zambia, Lusaka has become less organised, dirty and unregulated such that one does not even need to ask questions as to...

By JOWIT SALUSEKI – EBOLA, a contagious and deadly disease, has so far claimed many lives in West Africa. However, one question required to be answered is how prepared is Zambia to respond to this...

JACINTA KABUCHU chronicles his observations on ‘men of God’ living on Nairobi streets and says they are one of us as they present a landmark, but wonders whether medical authorities need to investigate how they...

By ANDREW PHIRI – THREE security guards have been strangled in Livingstone by assailants who also went away with K48,000 cash after blowing up a safe with a dynamite at Batoka Sky Adventures. The three...

By JAMES KUNDA – TWENTY-FIVE international gemstone buyers have converged on Lusaka to participate in the fifth auction of emeralds by Kagem Mining Ltd and Gemfields Plc, which opened yesterday. Ministry of Mines, Energy and...

By JOHN MPUNDU – THE MMD has charged that the unreasonable attacks by the United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema on its party president Nevers Mumba do not befit a candidate aspiring...

From CHISHA MUTALE in Washington DC – AFRICAN leaders attending the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit in Washington DC have called for the extension of the Africa Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA). The Act, which is in its...

By NAKUBIANA SHABONGO – THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has described the campaigns for the coming by-elections in Mangango as peaceful. ECZ public relations manager, Cris Akufuna said the campaigns have been generally peaceful...