The Zambia Council of Catholic Bishops has termed the summoning of its Lusaka Cosmopolitan Archbishop Alick Banda by the Drug Enforcement Commission as an attack on the church's mission and leadership.
At the request of the International Conference (ICC) on the Great Lakes Region, Zambia has agreed to host an urgent regional ministerial meeting to discuss the security situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The City of Lusaka, Zambia's capital, has run out of burial space and is now seeking private landowners to partner with or sell their land.
Lusaka City Council (LCC) Public Relations Manager Chola Mwamba disclosed that there have been 17,717 deaths in the city since January this year.
Military engineers from the Zambia Defence Force (ZDF) have reopened the Great East Road, paving the way for passage to eastern Zambia, Malawi and northern Mozambique.
The only access road to the Eastern province of Zambia, Mozambique, and Malawi has been washed away, leaving hundreds of vehicles stranded on either side.
The Great East Road is a major road in Zambia and the main route linking its Eastern Province with the rest of the country.
Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema signed into law the much-talked-about Constitutional Amendment Bill (7) 2025.
Interested parties expressed mixed feelings.
This means 13 clauses that were contained in the bill are now part of the Constitution.
Zambia's Department of Immigration apprehended 25 suspected illegal immigrants in two separate operations last week.
On Friday 14 Ethiopian nationals were apprehended in a suspected smuggling case at a village, while one individual remains unaccounted for.
Zambia has launched the Integrated Migration Management Information System and the five-year National Migration Data Strategy, aimed at curbing illegal immigration.
The launch is considered a transformative milestone in modernising Zambia's migration governance.
Cholera has resurfaced in Zambia, with at least four new cases recorded in the past week.
The Zambia National Public Health Institute managed to contain the first three cases within two days and is now attending to only one patient.
In Zambia, a controversial constitutional amendment Bill, number 7 of 2025, passed both the 2nd and 3rd readings with almost 100% votes.
When the Bill came up for the 2nd reading on Monday, 131 members voted in favour, while only two voted against it.
