IZB pumps extra $30m into Maamba Solar project
By BUUMBA CHIMBULU INDO Zambia Bank (IZB) Limited has committed an additional US$30 million to the Maamba Solar Energy Limited (MSEL) project, reinforcing its growing footprint in the country’s energy…
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UNDP, KPMG launch pre budget survey to foster dialogue
By BENEDICT TEMBO THE United Nations Development Programme and KPMG have inaugurated a pre-2026 pre-budget survey designed to bring the voice of the private sector, and civil society, to the…
Tribalism made me leave UPND – Siamunene By BARNABAS ZULU
RICHWELL Siamunene has described the UPND as a tribal political formation and that he left it because he could not tolerate tribalism as the main thrust of belonging to the…
A SCENT powers 20m, Zambia joins clean energy push By BUUMBA CHIMBULU
A THE Accelerating Sustainable and Clean Energy Access Transformation (ASCENT) programme has connected 20 million people to electricity in Eastern and Southern Africa since its launch last year, marking a…
Zambia’s 2026 national budgetExpectations grounded in 2025 reality
THIS Friday, the Minister of Finance and National Planning is due to present the 2026 national budget to Parliament. Given that 2026 is an election year, citizens are keen to…
Malawi broadcaster projects ex-leader Mutharika has won election
LILONGWE - Malawi’s former president Peter Mutharika is projected to have won last week’s presidential election with more than 56 percent of the vote, private broadcaster Times Television reported yesterday…
Electricity exports to reduce to 106MW, says Chikote
By GIDEON NYENDWA ZAMBIA’s electricity exports will be reduced to 106 megawatts (MW) by October 2025 as part of measures to ease the ongoing acute power deficit caused by low…
Hichilema confers with Litunga, Mpezeni
By GRACE CHAIL PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema yesterday hosted the Litunga, the King of the Lozi people of Western Province and Paramount Chief Mpenzeni of the Ngoni people of Eastern Province…
Publish list of judges to be recruited
…Brebner Changala has questioned the secrecy surrounding the recruitment of new Judges, demands that the list of the names of those who may have been interviewed should be made public…
Give Back the PF to its True Owners
ANOTHER by-election looms. Another by-election without Zambia’s biggest opposition party, the Patriotic Front (PF). Why? Because the ruling party has stolen it. This is not democracy. It is daylight political…
