Politics

By Jessica Mwansa WE are not scared of losing the 2026elections to former President Edgar Lungu should he decide to bounce back into active politics and recontest because we have defeated him before with a landslide victory, the United Party for National Development (UPND) has said. UPND deputy Secretary General,

Guest article by Joseph Maonde In his book titled, “what is Africa’s problem”, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni asked a very prudent question - a silver bullet in fact, “what is Africa’s problem? But he remains silent without giving an answer to this very question. He leaves many readers in a

By Alvin Siandabile in Kabwe PATRIOTIC Front (PF) national deputy chairperson Kavumbu Hakachima Hachilonde says women in Zambia play a very important role in ensuring that families have food and therefore need access to start-up capital.   Ms. Hachilonde says women in the country need support from Government and well-wishers

By Scoop Reporter Central Province Permanent Secretary Milner Mwanakampwe has warned local authority leaders against derailing progress by purposefully frustrating each other’s output. Speaking when he officially opened a workshop for council principal officers and elected leaders in Mkushi yesterday, Mr. Mwanakampwe stated that cordial relationships among principal officers were

By Bennie Mundando KENNEDY Kamba says the Patriotic Front (PF) agrees with the Economics Intelligence Unit (EIU) with its expectations that this year's general elections to be the last in which opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema will be contesting. Mr. Kamba, who is Lusaka Province

By Scoop Reporter UPND Chitambo Constituency Parliamentary Candidate Crawford Kunda Mukando, has declared his interest, that he will not apply for adoption on the UPND Ticket, in the August 2021 General Elections. And the UPND Elections Chairperson Garry Nkombo has announced that the party will start the Adoption Process on

SCOOP EDITORIAL IT IS no longer news. Former UPND spokespersons Charles Kakoma has ditched the UPND and joined the PF and according to him, he will ensure that President Edgar Lungu is re-elected on August 12 as Republican President. When you see the men of principle begin to disappear, it

…..Assures members of an update in due course on NDC’s next political direction By Bennie Mundando BELEAGUERED National Democratic Congress (NDC) president Chishimba Kambwili has unreservedly apologised to President Edgar Lungu and businessman Valden Findlay for calling them drug dealers. And Mr. Kambwili says the suspended NDC officials’ fate will

.... As Mwila becomes second official to play Pontius Pilate over attacks on Judiciary By Bennie Mundando THE Patriotic Front (PF) has denied its Lusaka Province chairperson Paul Moonga twice over his statement in which he castigated the Judiciary. During a press briefing at the PF Secretariat on Friday, March

By Bennie Mundando ZAMBIANS must embrace the watermelon concept to kick out the ruling Patriotic Front (PF), United Party for National Development (UPND) national management committee member Percy Chanda has said. In a statement to The Scoop today, Mr. Chanda called upon all well meaning Zambians to unite and use