Tag Archive: Zambia

Politics of Hunger in Zambia

A recent report by Global Hunger Index has ranked Zambia the fifth hungriest country in the world. This coincidentally comes at a time when the country...

Gun Culture Engulfs Zambian Politics

The political temperature is rising as Zambia nears the 2021 general elections. The ruling Patriotic Front (PF) and the main opposition party United Party...

Xenophobia in SA, Social Media’s Immediacy in Modifying African Behaviour

This recent week, if I owned Facebook, Google or WhatsApp and sitting far, far away from South Africa, Southern Africa and Africa itself I...

South African Businesses Close As Zambian Students Protest Xenophobia

Dozens of South African businesses include banks, supermarkets and a television provider have been temporarily shut down in the Zambian capital Lusaka, as thousands...

Zambian Gov’t Tables Constitutional Amendments Bill, Amid Public Resistance

Zambia’s Minister of Justice, Given Lubinda has gone ahead tabling a Bill to amend the Republican Constitution despite the proposed amendments receiving massive public...

South African Artist, Somizi Denied Entry Into Zambia Over Homosexuality

Zambia has refused South African artist and socialite, Somizi Mhlongo entery into the country over his sexuality. Minister ofReligious Affairs and National Values, who...

Pressure Mounts on Zambian Govt to Re-Draft Mental Health Bill

The international community has stood in solidarity with human rights activists in Zambia who are opposed to the enactment of a new mental health legislation for...

Zambian Government Closes Independent Media Critical of the Ruling Party

Zambian authorities have continued to use state institutions to muzzle the independent press. The crackdown seems to always heighten around election periods. The latest...

Strategies to Counter Shrinking Civic Spaces: The Case of the Disability Movement

There is a growing culture of intolerance and impunity by some African leaders. This makes it increasingly difficult for civil society movements to play...

Is the End of Zambia’s Political Crisis in Sight?

Zambia’s leading opposition figure, Hakainde Hichilema and his co-accused walked to freedom on Wednesday 16th August, 2017 after the state entered a nolle prosequi [the...

Zambia’s Disturbing Political Crisis

Zambia’s main opposition party, United Party for National Development (UPND) has continued to receive a bashing from the Patriotic Front (PF) government with the...

Malawi and Zambia Get Maized

This article was co-authored by  Jimmy Kainja from Malawi  Governments of Malawi and Zambia have come under fire over an alleged maize export scam...