It is clear to us that gay people are entitled to all rights in the Constitution, like any other person. These include freedoms of expression, assembly and association, privacy, equality and dignity, Dr. O’Brien Kaaba and Dr. Pamela Towela Sambo writes that they should be left alone.

A wind farm hailed as Africa’s largest renewable energy project and the solution to Lesotho’s hefty electricity costs has ground to a halt. Sechaba Mokhethi investigates why.

Experts say because of farmers' inability to prove ownership, legal disputes and land grabs are escalating land wrangles in the country.

John Mukela writes: "Queen Elizabeth was the manifestation of British conquest and the guardian of that tradition and history."

Activists in Malawi are calling on the government to audit all mining licences following PIJ’s investigation into the Lin-Zhang syndicate’s illegally mined and exported gold and coal being conducted with only exploratory mining licenses.

Measles is normally passed by direct contact through the air, infecting the respiratory tract before spreading throughout the body, but it is preventable. 

Reporting on Sino-Zimbabwean relations and local Chinese investments has for a time invoked acute emotions, amid accusations and counter-accusations of disinformation, bullying, threats and intimidation as well as manipulation of the media.

The government hoped to address the shortages by making more than K2.7 billion available to the Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZAMSA) to buy medicine and equipment. But, spending this money and getting critical stock into hospitals is proving difficult.

Most of the labour went underground in South Africa’s gold mines. Most of those miners are also dead and gone, but their money may be sitting in the vaults of South Africa’s banks, as John Mukela reports.

IFPAB agents who had continued with their activities here, stopped immediately your story was published. For me, that’s a sign that you people are powerful.

It is difficult to defend a profession or individuals who have allowed themselves to be captured and destroyed by greedy politicians and other powerful forces. The journalism we see in Zambia isn’t journalism at all, it is something else.

Wrangles over land are on the increase in Zambia. Lovemore Sondashi reports that the 321 km Lusaka-Ndola dual carriageway is caught up in a land wrangle that promises to put spanners to the smooth implementation of the carriageway project.

Conservationists see the scheduled opening this September of the Radisson Blu Mosi-oa-Tunya Livingstone Resort as yet another nail in the coffin for this natural wonder.

On 24 August 2022, the three judges – Justices Mubanga Kondolo (SC), Petronella Ngulube and Anessie Banda-Bobo ruled that they had omitted to consider important decisions by the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court, thus failing to stand by binding precedent.

Some of the deaths and injuries have come from attacks by criminals. Police records show that between January and July 2022, 32 motorbikes were stolen and in the process 20 riders were left injured.

Matongo Maumbi points out that for the press to be really appreciated as the fourth estate, it must be accorded the freedom to access information.

Dr Kaaba argues that the Court of Appeals' decision is a clear violation of the Constitution and demonstrates bewildering disregard of precedents by the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court, which bind the Court of Appeal.

According to the MakanDay investigation, IFPAB has nothing to do with charity, its business is into a number sectors, including mixed farming, processing and preserving of fish, book and newspaper publishing as listed in the PACRA documents.

Editor’s Note: Words are left in their original version, such as the imperial ton, instead of the current use of metric tonne.

Child marriage has always plagued our society. It tends to occur among the country’s most marginalised and vulnerable communities. While both boys and girls are married off early in many parts of Zambia, Christopher Miti reports that a greater number of girls become victims of this age-old custom.

Government recently employed over 34,000 teachers to help address the lack of teachers in public schools. While this is good, failure to address housing and other challenges facing many rural schools will make it difficult to realise its dream.

Conflicts involving land are driving related wrangles about succession and chieftaincy, as this MakanDay report by Christopher Banda in Chipata shows.

Doctors routinely leave bullets or bullet fragments inside the bodies of gunshot survivors. That decision is debatable. MakanDay visited the family of a boy in Mazabuka – southern Zambia, to examine why the bullet in his tiny body has not been removed.

Although attacks on albinos are a chronic problem in Malawi and some other southern African countries, MakanDay has established that in Zambia fewer cases have been reported, but even so, culprits have not been punished for the offence.

In this article Dr Kaaba argues that although it is important to reform the constitution in order to clarify language, eradicate gaps and remove contradictions, such reforms would do little to resolve the country's major structural constitutional challenges.

MakanDay has been sifting through a trove of court documents and found that in August last year, Chibozu Twaambo, Mirriam N. Mumba, Stephen Moonga, Mambo Vanessa and Sepiso Mbaimbai sued DHI for failing to pay them their earnings after investing over K260,000 into the company.

Without a stable and committed workforce, equipment and medicine in hospitals, health sector turnaround may not happen. With these challenges, government's ability to meet the health needs of Zambia’s population appears to be severely compromised.

Cybersecurity experts warn that Zambia will be throwing the baby with the bath water if it goes ahead with the proposed legislation, which will force multinationals operating in the country to store customer data locally or pay hefty fees to keep the information outside Zambia's jurisdiction.

As power-cuts force pupils to take their own water to school, we investigate the effect of the crisis on Zambia's debt-ravaged electricity company

Kyaiwa said he was lifting rocks at Jifumpa Mine’s underground site sometime in 2019 when his fingers on the left hand were crushed by the mine hutch after a machine operator accidentally set it in motion.