International

PRESIDENT’S PARTICIPATION IN DAKAR SUMMIT CRUCIAL, ARGUES KAKUBO … but Sean says “he wants to teach Senegalese how to split a fertilizer bag into 12 medas”

By Merlyn Mwanza President Hakainde Hichilema will join 18 other heads of state for the summit on agriculture in Dakar, Senegal. But opposition PeP leader Sean Tembo in a derogatory…

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA FEASTS ON IMF STORY PRONOUNCING RAMPANT CORRUPTION UNDER PF ADMIN

By Merlyn Mwanza and Isaac Zulu Major international media organisations have carried the news item where the IMF says the former ruling PF inflated the cost of high profile projects…

FORMER POPE BENEDICT XVI DIES

Benedict XVI, the Pope Emeritus, has died in Vatican City at the age of 95 following a period of ill health. Benedict, who was the first pontiff in almost 600…

WHEN WE CALL YOU A PUPPET YOU REFUSE, BUT YOUR ACTIONS PROVE OTHERWISE, KABIMBA TELLS HH

By Staff Reporter Economic Front Leader Wynter Kabimba has written to both the Chinese Ambassador to Zambia and President Hakainde Hichilema expressing dismay and consternation over the remarks by USA…

SORRY CHINA, I APOLOGISE ON ZAMBIA’S BEHALF – KABIMBA

By Merlyn Mwanza Economic Front (EF) leader Wynter Kabimba has apologised to the government and people of China over a statement from the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee connecting…

ZIMBABWE TO IMPORT POWER FROM ZAMBIA … as Zesco starts effecting 6-hr daily load-shedding this week

By Merlyn Mwanza Zimbabwe plans to import 500MW of power from neighbouring Mozambique and Zambia, but crisis-hit South Africa is also competing for the same power to shore up its shortfall,…

WE WEREN’T NOTIFIED ON NYIRENDA’S RECRUITMENT INTO RUSSIAN MILITARY OPERATIONS – KAKUBO

By Isaac Zulu Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Stanley Kakubo has said that the Zambian government was not officially notified about the recruitment of Lemekani Nathan Nyirenda in…

INDONESIA BANS SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE

Indonesian lawmakers passed a sweeping new criminal code on Tuesday that criminalizes sex outside marriage, as part of a tranche of changes. The new code, which also applies to foreign…

RUSSIA TELLS CANADA THAT A FAMILY IS MAN, WOMAN AND CHILDREN … rebukes Ottawa’s alien gender beliefs

The Russian embassy in Canada has blasted the country’s government over its opposition to a new law criminalizing the spread of LGBTQ “propaganda” in Russia. Canadians should keep their “alien” beliefs to themselves, the…

RUSSIA’S STATE DUMA APPROVES BILL AGAINST PRAISING HOMOSEXUALITY

Russia’s lower house of parliament passed in the third reading amendments to a law on “LGBT propaganda” on Thursday, expanding liability to all ages. The law proposes to ban all Russians from…