Zambia

Source: Bloomberg By Matthew Hill and Taonga Clifford Mitimingi Zambia’s central bank said it refused to pay ransom to a group known as Hive that was behind a cybersecurity breach that caused minimal damage to its systems. “All of our core systems are still up and running,” Greg Nsofu, information …

A SEX-worker in Mazabuka district in Southern Province is worried about two things. Her first worry is that there is a high number of young girls joining the sex work business. #Kalemba finds sense in this concern. Her second worry borders on the economic concept of demand and supply – …

Zambia Police has revealed that it recorded 540 cases of child defilement from 6,915 cases of Gender Based Violence reported countrywide in the first quarter of 2022. Police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga said Lusaka Province recorded the highest number of child defilement cases with 145 cases followed by Eastern Province with …

FORMER Family Health Trust executive director Benny Zulu has been sentenced to death by hanging for killing 19-year-old Natasha Mkandawire. Delivering judgement this morning in Lusaka, High Court Judge Wilfred Muma said based on circumstantial evidence, there was no doubt that Zulu did murder Natasha as he is the one …

The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has arrested a notorious drug dealer of Lusaka’s Matero Compound for trafficking in narcotic drugs contrary to the Laws of Zambia. The suspect is identified as Danny Mapulanga, a businessman, aged 27 years of Muchinga Area in Matero Compound for trafficking in 350 sachets of …

The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of a man of Lusaka who was one of the three dangerous criminals who referred to themselves as ‘Americano’ which were responsible for two murders in Lusaka’s State Lodge about a decade ago.  Henry Daka was sentenced to death by the High …

Civil rights activist Chama Fumba, popularly known as Pilato, says praise singers are like alcohol as they can drown an individual’s intelligence and sensibility. In an interview, Wednesday, Pilato said there was little to learn from praise singers and more to learn from critics “I think praise singers will always …

A 31-year-old woman of Mwenzo in Nakonde has asked the court for dissolution of her marriage on claims that her husband is into witchcraft and refuses to have sex. Sarah, who has filed for divorce in the Nakonde urban local court, claims that her husband, Francis, aged 38, started practicing …

As the saying goes “old habits die hard”, a former civil servant in Nakonde has lived up to those words. 43-year-old Hector Mukhala who lost his job in 2017 due to theft has been found guilty of a similar offence but will this time around serve behind bars. On Friday …

SIXTEEN babies have been abandoned at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) by their mothers in the last two years, the institution has revealed. According to UTH New Born Section social worker Mutipani Mubita the six children were dumped at the institution in 2020 while eight were abandoned there in 2021 …