Zambia News

It was ostensibly about obscenity, but it was really about corruption and censorship and in the end, justice prevailed.

A Zambian magistrate has thrown out pornography charges brought against a news editor who mailed pictures of a woman giving birth on a pavement during a doctor's strike to the vice-president. The Zambian president, Rupiah Banda, who ordered that a journalist be arrested after she posted pictures of childbirth Chansa Kabwela, news editor at The ...

A LUSAKA magistrates' court yesterday acquitted The Post newspapers news editor, Chansa Kabwela on charges of circulating obscene materials after finding her with no case to answer.

In Zambian, the editor of the independent Post newspaper, Chansa Kabwela, has been acquitted of obscenity charges.

LUSAKA, 16 November 2009 - Abigail Mwanashimba has been looking after her five siblings since the age of eight, when her parents died of AIDS-related illnesses.

A Lusaka Magistrates' court today freed a newspaper news editor who stood charged for circulating photographs of a woman in labour during Zambia's strike earlier this year.

A leading Zambian journalist who was acquitted Monday of distributing "obscene material" over photographs she circulated of a woman giving birth during a medical strike claimed the ruling as a victory for media freedom.

GOVERNMENT has with immediate effect lifted the land agency ban imposed on Solwezi Municipal Council last year because the issues that led to the ban have been resolved.

With priority given to agriculture and infrastructure in the draft action plan for next three years, the cooperation launched by the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation addresses the fundamental needs of the African countries, Ambassador of Zambia to China Lupando Mwape told Xinhua Friday after attending the 7th senior officials meeting of the Forum.

THE Citizens Economic Empowerment Fund has launched its translated Act of 2009 in seven local languages and in Braille to enable every targeted citizen benefits from the initiative.

When journalists were beaten by political supporters for covering the president's return trip from abroad, and cabinet ministers and police officers looked on without stopping it, it seemed to be the last straw in the victimisation of the media.

THE Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence slapped on Brian Mumbi of Lusaka who stabbed his aunt Dainess Banda to death in unexplained circumstances.

TWO ailing members of a Chimwemwe Township family ravaged by a mysterious disease have finally been evacuated to the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka for further medical investigations.

Zambia's largest cobalt producer, Chambishi Metals Plc has restarted production after suppliers in the Democratic Republic of Congo delivered cobalt concentrates needed to resume output, the firm said on Saturday.

School prefect Ernest Kalyati takes the lead in teaching the importance of washing hands with soap at the launch of a cholera-prevention workshop in Lusaka, Zambia.

The UN refugee agency repatriated 502 Congolese refugees from Zambia on Wednesday, bringing the total number of returnees to the Democratic Republic of Congo to more than 15,000 since May.

An International Monetary Fund mission visited Lusaka October 15-28 to conduct the discussions for the 2009 Article IV consultation 1 and for the third review of Zambia's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility with the IMF.

THE International Monetary Fund has urged the Government to cut the public sector wage bill to free up some funds for social sector spending which will enhance economic diversification and poverty reduction.

A new campaign in Zambia backed by the United Nations Children's Fund calls for an end to gender-based violence, the second biggest scourge in the nation, following HIV and AIDS, according to the African nation's leader.

Zambian President, His Excellency, Mr. Rupiah Bwezani Banda, launched the National Communication Strategy against Gender-based Violence.