Services of Meta-owned WhatsApp are currently experiencing disruption. Acknowledging the issue, a Meta spokesperson said the company is working to restore services ‘as quickly as possible.’ “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we’re working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible,” the …

After an emotional send-off where some relatives even collapsed during body viewing, a grieving family of Lusaka discovered after burial this morning that they had buried the wrong body. Family sources said that Ricky Mulenga died in his Matero home on Friday after a long illness upon which his body …

Several African countries are facing visa bans from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with an immediate effect in what is seen as a move to tighten visa requirements. The ban covers applications related to a 30-day visitors visas, according to a notice from the UAE. The visa ban covers Uganda, …

LABOUR and Social Security Minister Brenda Tambatamba says NAPSA members will only be allowed to partially access their pension benefits once before retirement, and this is 20 percent of the contributions. In an interview, Tambatamba explained that members would only be eligible to access 20 percent of their benefits after …

*13 ABDUCTION SURVIVORS REINTEGRATED INTO THEIR FAMILIES* The Ministry of Community Development and Social Services has reintegrated the 13 young women who were rescued from the abductors, back into their families. The young women underwent psychosocial and mental therapy under the auspices of Social Welfare Officers and Mental health Practitioners …

Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned as UK prime minister in a statement outside Downing Street. She said she could not deliver the mandate on which she was elected as Tory leader and had notified the King that she was resigning. There will be Conservative leadership election to be completed …

Police in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, have arrested one of the suspects in the gruesome murder of a Zambian national three weeks ago who was allegedly stabbed to death by unknown people. Goodson Chomba 34, was a businessman who owned, among other businesses, a driving school in South Africa. He …

Ministry of Labour and Social Security acting Permanent Secretary Zacharia Luhanga says National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA) is ready to pay out K17 billion in partial retirement benefits once the National Pension Scheme Act is amended. Cabinet last week approved, in principle, the introduction of a bill in Parliament to …

Zimbabwe has become the first county in Africa to approve a long-acting injectable drug that prevents HIV transmission. The first two injections of Cabotegraviror CAB-LA are administered four weeks apart, followed by an injection every eight weeks. The drug has received regulatory approval in two other countries, the US and …

POLICE say they will give an update on the fate of the five people arrested in connection with the abducti0n of 13 young women. A fortnight ago, Police rescued four mobile money agents and nine nursing students who had been held for weeks in a house in Lusaka’s Chalala area. …