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Zambia’s Constitutional Court is expected to rule on Friday on an application to have President Edgar Lungu barred from standing in August’s presidential election on the grounds that he has already served the constitutionally agreed two terms in office.
Zambia’s electoral body has suspended the holding of mass political rallies ahead of the country’s eagerly awaited general elections set…
Zambia’s medicines control body has approved five COVID-19 vaccines that can be used during the country’s vaccination programme, a senior government official has said.
Zambian Vice-President Inonge Wina has announced she will not be presenting herself as a running mate to President Edgar Lungu in presidential elections set for August 12.
Zambia dissolved its parliament on Friday in line with a constitutional provision that requires the National Assembly to cease operations at least 90 days before general elections scheduled for August 12.
The leaders of Zambia and Botswana on Monday officially launched a rail and road bridge and one-stop border post that is expected to boost trade between the two countries and open another route to the sea for other landlocked southern African countries.
RwandAir resumed flights to the Zambian capital Lusaka and Johannesburg in South Africa on Friday, three months after suspending service over concerns about a COVID-19 variant that had ravaged the southern African region at the time.
Zambia and Angola are set to sign an agreement for the construction of an oil pipeline connecting the two neighbours in a move expected to ease Lusaka’s fuel challenges, APA learnt here on Wednesday.
President Edgar Lungu has filed nomination papers to the ruling Patriotic Front secretariat as he vies for another attempt to run as the party’s presidential candidate in elections scheduled for August this year.
Zambia and Zimbabwe are piloting a Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) project to strengthen the capacity of industrialists in the region to actively participate in the African Continental Free Trade Area, APA learnt here on Monday.