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By Jessica Mwansa POLITICAL analyst Kaheko Lweendo has observed that the upcoming visit to Zambia by USA Vice-President Kamala Harris is going to be a catalyst to strengthening relations between Zambia and the Western world. Mr. Lweendo notes that prior to the 2021 elections, Zambia’s diplomatic relations with some Western

By Lumbiwe Mwanza PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema and his predecessor Edgar Lungu know each other and sometimes say certain things in public just to see how people will react, Chief Chipepo of the Tonga people in Southern Province has charged. Commenting on President Hichilema’s remarks on the Copperbelt on Monday where

By Lumbiwe Mwanza GOVERNMENT in collaboration with the private sector should strengthen modalities of increasing youths’ opportunities to turn rural areas from zones of poverty to zones of productivity, the Youth Development Foundation (YDF) has said. Speaking to The Scoop in an interview, YDF Executive Director Chinoya Muyeye observes that

By Lumbiwe Mwanza THE Government will go to sleep if the opposition is not providing checks and balances, therefore people must not be gagged but should have a say in issues of national interest, says Political scientist Alex Ngoma. And Dr. Ngoma has advised the opposition not to thrive on

By Lumbiwe Mwanza THE allocation of some tonnage of fertiliser to be supplied by certain companies will disadvantage the rest of us and this will render the whole process an academic exercise, some agro dealers have complained. The Agri Business Association of Zambia (ABAZ) claims that bidding in the procurement

By Scoop Reporter THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested and charged former Kabushi Constituency Parliamentarian Bowman Lusambo for being in possession of a single story four-bedroom house reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime. Mr. Bowman Lusambo of Lusaka’s Chamba Valley area has been charged with one count of being

By Martin Mashekwa/ZANIS-Kalomo PEOPLE of Sipatunyana Ward in Kalomo District of Southern Province are living in fear as they have been terrorised by a herd of marauding elephants for the past week. Area councillor, Howard Munsanje, has confirmed the development to ZANIS today saying the Jumbos have destroyed maize and

By Lumbiwe Mwanza IT is encouraging that the UPND administration has bought into the idea of the cultivation of cannabis in Zambia for medicinal purposes, opposition Green Party leader Peter Sinkamba has said. Recently, the Controlled Substance Bill 2023 was introduced in Parliament whose objective is to provide for the

By Lumbiwe Mwanza GOVERNMENT should have empowered local farmers by giving them more land and other incentives to produce more food for the readily available market in Kenya instead of giving land away, the Zambia Land Alliance (ZLA) has said. The Ministry of Agriculture has hobbled over reports in Kenya