Zambia News

Lusaka - The Zambian government is ready to face a leading South African bank in court for $74,3-million dollars sought over the breach of a feedstock contract, the attorney general said on Friday.

MORE than 300 health workers in Ndola have been asked to exculpate themselves or face disciplinary charges for allegedly going on an illegal strike.

THE new investor that has taken over Luanshya Copper Mines , China Non-ferrous Metal Group Company , has started re-engaging former employees, who have been flocking to the general offices in large numbers.

MORE health workers in Lusaka and the Copperbelt yesterday reported for work ending the three-week long strike after the Government promised to commit itself to meet their demands.

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PRESIDENT George Kunda has said the Government will decisively deal will all forms of financial crimes in the public sector.

STRIKING health workers have been given an ultimatum to report for work by Monday, failure to which they should consider themselves fired for staying away without authority for more than 10 days.

LY bad little monkey was caught on camera spending a penny on Zambia's PRESIDENT.

In the last couple of years, there have been a number of high-profile studies exploring the relationship between male circumcision and HIV acquisition.

Lusaka - Zambia will sack all striking nurses and paramedics if they do not return to work immediately, health minister Kapembwa Simba said on Friday, 22 days after medical staff first walked out in a pay dispute.

The tormented sister of Trowbridge man Kaye Townsend, who was murdered in Zambia three years ago, believes closure will only come when his killer is finally brought to justice.

FOUR former Copperbelt administration accounts officers yesterday pleaded not guilty in a Ndola magistrate's court to 21 charges of theft by public servant and three counts of money laundering.

A monkey urinated on Zambian President Rupiah Banda during a press conference outside his office in the capital Lusaka.

Wed, Jun 24, 2009 A U.S. charity started distributing bicycles in Zambia on Wednesday in a program designed to make it easier for thousands of children in the southern African country to get to school.

Nowhere in Zambia is the impact of the global financial crisis being felt harder than in the copper and cobalt-rich province of the Copperbelt.

A new initiative to help improve literacy in Zambia is looking for volunteers to join a mobile library that tours its schools.

LUSAKA, Zambia - As the gleaming black Mercedes-Benz pulled up to the courthouse, an aide rushed to the passenger door, bowed deeply and then ceremoniously opened it.

THE Government and Human Rights Commission have pleaded with striking nurses in some parts of the country to resume work for the benefit of ordinary people.

THE country has just within this week experienced two serious electricity blackouts, and eyebrows are now being raised on whether these incidents are mere accidents or are an act of sabotage by some people.

TRAFFICKING in ivory and game meat has become one of the most lucrative illegal trades in Africa due to rising demand in Asia, experts say.