Barely two days after deporting 242 illegal immigrants, the Department of Immigration in Zambia has again intercepted 175 illegal immigrants. 

Mwandi Mission General Hospital on the Zambia-Namibia border will be conducting a free series of female pelvic reconstruction surgeries. 

The hospital will be hosting a visiting American gynaecologist who has offered these rather expensive surgeries for free. 

The Zambian Department of Immigration has deported 242 illegal immigrants following a mass removal operation this week.

The deportees consist of 217 Burundians, 15 Tanzanians, eight Rwandese and two Congolese.

Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema has launched the African Union's Champion's Report on Ending Child Marriage and the Spotlight Initiative Africa Regional Programme.

Zambia's Economic and Financial Crimes Court has ordered the forfeiture of 79 vehicles and 23 properties belonging to Dalitso Lungu, the son of former President Edgar Lungu, after ruling that the assets were proceeds of crime.

Newly appointed Namibian High Commissioner to Zambia Goms Menette today presented his letter of credentials to President Hakainde Hichilema. 

He was not the only one scheduled for Tuesday. 

Other diplomats from Japan, Germany, Ghana and Colombia also presented the letters of credentials. 

Zambia is expected to soon lift a night travel ban imposed on trucks and public service vehicles on the country's roads.

The ban was originally introduced in November 2016, in effect between 21H00 and 17H00, to reduce high rates of traffic accidents.

The Government of Zambia has formally engaged their Congolese counterparts over the recent spate of attacks on international drivers in that country.

The extraordinary meeting of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region Ministers of Defense has elected Brigadier General Charles Nakeempa of Zambia as the Commander of the Expanded Joint Verification Mechanism for the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A Zambian national, Marock Kalonga has been fined about N$900,000 or four years' imprisonment in default for aiding 13 illegal immigrants.

Kalonga was apprehended on 14th November for facilitating the illegal movement of 113 foreign nationals, comprising eleven Pakistani and two Ethiopian nationals.