Major Zambia stories, public affairs updates, and developing national news.
Major Zambia stories, public affairs updates, and developing national news.
National Reconciliation Party for Unity and Prosperity (NRPUP) Candidate, Rosemary Chipoya, has won the Nchanga Parliamentary seat in Chingola. Ms Chipoya scored 20,302 votes beating his closest rival Francesca Akashambatwa of the United Party for National Development (UPND).…
The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has declared, Chola Chilumba, of the National Reconciliation Party for Unity and Prosperity (NRPUP) as the newly elected Mpika Council Chairperson. Mr Chilumba scooped the Council Chairperson seat after polling 26,287 votes in the…
United Party for National Development (UPND) parliamentary candidate Stanley Kakubo has returned his seat after amassing 8,509 votes while beating his closest rival Jackline Nkausu an independent candidate who got 2,932 votes. Berlington Mubanga of NRPUP got 2,858 votes, while…
Peter Yuda of the National Reconciliation Party for Unity and Prosperity (NRPUP) has scooped the Kasama Mayoral seat. Mr Yuda emerged winner after polling 54, 269 votes beating his closest rival UPND’s Bywell Simposya who obtained 16, 589 votes. Citizens First candidate Aaron…
The night the big names fell Kabuswe loses his own backyard. Tayali is unseated by 819 votes. Across the country, ministers, mayors and party royalty discovered the hard way that incumbency buys nothing on counting night. There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a…
The United Party for National Development (UPND) has scooped the Nakonde Parliamentary seat while under the National Reconciliation Party for Unity and Prosperity (NRPUP) has won the newly created Mwenzo Constituency in Nakonde District, Muchinga Province. Nakonde Constituency…
Former long serving politician Garry Nkombo has lost the Mazabuka Central Parliamentary race to UPND candidate Vincent Lilanda. Nkombo got 10,720 votes while Lilanda polled 20,420 of the 33,218 votes cast at 88 polling stations in Mazabuka Central Constituency. Nkombo was seeking…
The United Party for National Development (UPND) has scooped the Mambwe Council Chairperson seat in the just ended general elections. Mambwe District Returning Officer David Mwansa duly declared Henry Mwape as the winner. Henry Mwape got 9,868 votes, beating his closest rival…
President Hakainde Hichilema has extended his early lead in Zambia’s presidential election, polling 243,509 votes across 27 of the country’s 226 constituencies, as the incumbent seeks a second term governing the copper-rich southern African nation. His closest rival, National…
Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security Permanent Secretary Dickson Matembo has warned politicians and members of the public against making statements that could incite citizens and threaten peace in the country. Speaking today during a joint press briefing at the Ministry…
