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RIGHTS-ZAMBIA: ‘Justice Prevailed’– Says News Editor Acquitted of False Charges
Chansa Kabwela faced a five-year jail sentence when she sent photographs of a woman giving birth, without medical assistance while in the country’s largest hospital, to government officials. Chansa...
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ZAMBIA: Chief Justice Accused of Collusion by Opposition
Chief justice Ernest Sakala has been accused of colluding with the president’s administration to protect high-profile people accused of corruption. But the Law Association of Zambia has rejected the...
View ArticleZAMBIA: Telecommunications Sale ‘Lacks Transparency’
The impending privatisation of the Zambia Telecommunications Company (Zamtel) is being opposed by civil society organisations and opposition political parties, who accuse the government of lacking...
View ArticleZAMBIA: Bringing Phones to the Countryside
Cellular phones have quickly become a popular and effective means of communication in Zambia, but their use has been concentrated in urban areas. Government and NGOs are now trying to extend these...
View ArticleZAMBIA: Need to Mainstream Gender Equality into all Policies
Despite the adoption almost a decade ago of a national gender policy that aims to ensure fair participation of men and women in the development process, most of the Zambian government’s policies still...
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ZAMBIA: Calls for Political Parties to Field 50 Percent Female Candidates
With women having achieved little in terms of representation in decision-making positions in Zambia, a national women’s lobby group is hoping to change this in the 2011 general elections. For a long...
View ArticleSOUTHERN AFRICA: Youth Vulnerable to Violence
James Banda, 27, is an unemployed youth although he occasionally is hired to act as a bus conductor at Lusaka’s Kulima Tower Bus Station. He may not have a permanent job, but it is easy to find him....
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ZAMBIA: Election Violence Could Mean Fewer Women Participants
There are growing fears that increasing numbers of women candidates and voters may not participate in the 2011 general elections because of an upsurge in election-related violence. Rights groups fear...
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ZAMBIA: Widespread Poverty Threatens to Reverse MDG Gains
Civil society organisations warn that unless Zambia addresses its high poverty levels, the strides the country already made in achieving some of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) may be reversed....
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ZAMBIA: Debate Over Windfall Tax
The Zambian government has been accused of embracing poverty as the debate over a windfall tax on the mining industry heats up. Mining truck at the Nchanga mine. Credit: Blue Salo/Wikicommons In...
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ZAMBIA: Controversial Chinese Firm Given Another Copper Mine
Kelvin KachingweBy Kelvin KachingweLUSAKA, Jun 2 2009 (IPS) The desperate need to find an alternative investor for the closed Luanshya Copper Mines (LCM) in Zambia’s Copperbelt has not prevented some...
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ECONOMY-ZAMBIA: Hard Times on the Copperbelt
Kelvin KachingweBy Kelvin KachingweLuanshya, ZAMBIA, Jun 23 2009 (IPS) Nowhere in Zambia is the impact of the global financial crisis being felt harder than in the copper and cobalt-rich province of...
View ArticleZAMBIA: NGO Bill Still Inspires No Confidence
Kelvin KachingweBy Kelvin KachingweLUSAKA, Aug 4 2009 (IPS) As the Zambian parliament resumes, civil society organisations (CSOs) have come out strongly to oppose the Non-Governmental Organisation...
View ArticleZAMBIA: Malaria Prevention Pays Off
Kelvin KachingweBy Kelvin KachingweMANSA, Zambia, Sep 24 2009 (IPS) Huge investments in malaria control and prevention have prevented as many as 75,000 child deaths over the past five years. A 2008...
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SANITATION-ZAMBIA: Back Policy With Funding
Kelvin KachingweBy Kelvin KachingweMANSA, Zambia, Oct 1 2009 (IPS) Water- and sanitation-related diseases cost communities dearly, particularly in rural Zambia. This borehole in Luapula is one of 205...
View ArticleAFRICA: Government on Collision Course with Civil Society
Kelvin KachingweBy Kelvin KachingweLUSAKA, Oct 14 2009 (IPS) The acquittal of former President Frederick Chiluba on charges of theft after a seven-year long landmark case, and the refusal by the...
View ArticleZAMBIA: Holding Government Responsible for Spending
Kelvin KachingweBy Kelvin KachingweLUSAKA, Oct 20 2009 (IPS) The recent change of the budget cycle to allow government to effectively spend money to develop the country is not good enough unless those...
View ArticleZAMBIA: Give Us Our Constitution
Kelvin KachingweBy Kelvin KachingweLUSAKA, Oct 28 2009 (IPS) Pressure is mounting for a new constitution that is inclusive of all citizens' views as the ongoing delays by the body granted to draft it...
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ZAMBIA: Media Face Beatings and Attacks
Kelvin KachingweBy Kelvin KachingweLUSAKA, Nov 10 2009 (IPS) When journalists were beaten by political supporters for covering the president’s return trip from abroad, and cabinet ministers and police...
View ArticleZAMBIA: Electoral Commission Accused of Bias
Kelvin KachingweBy Kelvin KachingweLUSAKA, Nov 25 2009 (IPS) The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) is once again under fire from opposition political parties and some civil society organisations,...
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