By SYLVIA MWEETWA – A TWENTY-SEVEN-year-old man of Serenje District has been arrested for attempting to rape his 57-year-old grandmother. The grandmother is also nursing severe burns on her buttocks in the Serenje District hospital after her grandson Bupe...

By CHATULA KAMPO – THERE is need for concerted family and community-based activities to supplement Government efforts in combating early marriages, teenage pregnancies and gender-based Violence (GBV), Local Government and Housing Minister Emmanuel Chenda has...

By BRIAN HATYOKA in HARARE, ZIMBABWE JOURNALISTS have been urged to be responsible and objective in the manner they report stories on the Ebola virus to avoid creating alarm and panic in the minds of...

By SYLVESTER MWALE – LUSAKA has been hit by water shortages with some parts completely running dry, while residents in townships have been forced to wake up earlier than normal to line up for the...

By SARAH TEMBO – THE opposition MMD says it will be holding provincial conventions starting from the first quarter of next year before holding a national conference ahead of the 2016 presidential elections. Party national...

By SYLVESTER MWALE? – A TRUCKLOAD with more than 660 bags of maize worth more than K46, 000 purchased by the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) have gone missing in Katete in what is believed to...

By KASONDE KASONDE – KABWE High Court has sentenced a 72-year-old man to 30 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling an 11-year-old girl. Kabwe Judge-in-charge Mwiinde Siavwapa sent Ackson Siwale to prison yesterday after...

By BRIAN HATYOKA – ZAMBIA is working hard to improve the business environment for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to create job opportunities, Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) director for enterprise development Makasa Mukula has...

By MARISA MWAPE and MAYA NTANDA – THE Green Party (GP) says it will participate in the jubilee celebrations despite other opposition parties shunning the event. GP leader Peter Sinkamba said the party would join...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – GOVERNMENT has released K405,000 to boost the construction of a new malaria laboratory at the Tropical Disease Research Centre (TDRC), Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary Davy Chikamata has said. Dr Chikamata...