POLICE in Luangwa have arrested five youths suspected of abducting a 70-year-old man. A police source in Luangwa confirmed yesterday that police were holding five youths, among them a Mozambican, for abducting 70-year-old Alick Daka...

By KASONDE KASONDE – THE Zambia Small-Scale Farmers Network Organisation (ZSSFN) has expressed concern at what it has described as acrimony being perpetrated by some civil society organisations (CSOs), Church bodies and opposition political parties...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – FORMER Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Felix Mutati has been selected to join the Eminent Persons Group of the ‘Atlantic Basin Initiative’ launched by SAIS-Johns Hopkins University. Mr Mutati has also...

By NAKUBIANA SHABONGO – SWEDEN has praised the rural electrification programme and is confident that it will help improve education and health services for the rural population. Swedish Ambassador to Zambia Lena Nordstrom said the...

By BRIAN HATYOKA – SOME residents of Livingstone have criticised Southern Water and Sewerage Company (SWASCO) for increasing water tariffs despite the alleged poor services they are subjected to. But SWASCO regional manager Goodson Masheka...

By JULIUS PHIRI – THE army worms which invaded crop fields in some districts in Eastern Province have been contained. About 502 hectares of land were affected by the army worms from December 26, 2013...

By NORMA SIAME – A VILLAGER from Isoka has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for defiling his 13-year-old sister-in-law. Kasama High Court Judge Petronella Ngulube, in sentencing Davie Sichalwe, said although he was...

By CHILA NAMAIKO – GOVERNMENT has issued a five-day ultimatum to senior police officers in Southern Province to shift from Livingstone to Choma, the new province headquarters, or face disciplinary action. Some senior officers in...

By FLAVIOR CHISHALA – A WOMAN in Lusaka has allegedly been gruesomely murdered by her husband who broke her hands and disappeared with the couple’s seven-month-old baby. The body of the woman identified as Josephine...

By FLAVIOR CHISHALA and CHUSA SICHONE – FIVE people have died while three others have sustained serious injuries following a road traffic accident on Nakonde-Kasama Road. The accident happened after an unregistered Land Cruiser Prado...