Lusaka, Zambia News

The Litunga of Barotseland, King of the Lozi, has no judicial or legislative authority.

THE Government has released more than K20 billion to pay outstanding teachers' housing allowances throughout the country.

Prisca Musonda is an ardent supporter of Patriotic Front leader Michael Sata and his party.

Chief justice Ernest Sakala has been accused of colluding with the president's administration to protect high-profile people accused of corruption.

Harry Mubita was tired of his wretched condition in prison. He had been in Lusaka Central Prison for more than a year, and still there was no sign that his theft case would be heard.

Lusaka - Resurgent copper prices have lifted Zambia's economy, but the gains haven't rubbed off on President Rupiah Banda, who has been embroiled in battles over media freedom and fighting corruption.

THE UNSOLVED murder of a former finance minister earlier this month has led many Zambians to fear for their country's reputation as an island of relative stability between crumbling Zimbabwe and war-torn Angola and Congo.

President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday urged closer cooperation between South Africa and Zambia in fighting poverty, disease and unemployment.

President Jacob Zuma will arrive in the Zambian capital Lusaka this afternoon on a three day state visit.

Remarks by his Excellency, JG Zuma, the president of the Republic of South Africa, at the state banquet hosted by President RB Banda in his honour during state visit in Lusaka, Zambia, 7 December 2009.

Treatment of cryptosporidiosis in HIV infected children has proved difficult and unsatisfactory with no drugs having demonstrable efficacy in controlled trials except nitazoxanide.

WITH the national registration exercise well in progress, it is important for all well-meaning Zambian citizens to take part to ensure as many people register or renew their cards as possible.

THE Immigration Department is today expected to commence the screening and interviewing of 22 Somali juveniles believed to be victims of an international syndicate in human trafficking.

By Chris Mfula Lusaka - Zambia has revised its end-December 2009 annual inflation forecast to 10 percent from the previous figure of 12 percent due mainly to falling food prices, central bank governor Caleb Fundanga said on Saturday.

PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has with immediate effect made changes to his Cabinet in a move that has seen Deputy Defence Minister Eustarkio Kazonga being appointed as Local Government and Housing minister.

Via Lusaka Times.com: Swine flu breaksout at Chipembi Girls . Excerpt: Swine flu has broken out at Chipembi Girls' High School in Chibombo district.

NDOLA, Zambia, Nov 23 - When Obed Mumba first came to the Zambian copper mining town of Ndola in search of work, it was still known reverently as "Ku kalale" - the land of the white man.

ZAMBIA recorded reduced poverty levels from 80 to 64 percent midway through the Fifth National Development Plan but the country failed to achieve the target average economic growth rate Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane has said.

Zambia has moved from being a major copper producer and potentially one of the continent's richest countries at independence in 1964 to one of the world's poorest.

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.