PRESS STATEMENT For Immediate Release Dan Haag, Netherlands Tuesday, 3rd December 2019 ZAMBIA NOT AMONG COUNTRIES UNDER ICC INVESTIGATIONS Zambia has continued to uphold and align itself with the principles and values of the International Criminal Court- ICC with regards to end impunity. This came to light, when Prosecutor of the ICC Mrs Fatou Bensouda announced the names of countries under the Court’s investigation to the on-going 18th Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC, in the Netherlands. Among the countries named are Nigeria, Guinea, Ukraine, Venezuela, Columbia, Libya, Darfur, Georgia, Philippines and...

PRESS STATEMENT  Lusaka, Saturday 14th March, 2020 – The Drug Enforcement Commission recorded a 2.12 percentage annual increase in the number of arrests made in 2019 from a total of 5, 352 persons compared to 5,241 arrested in 2018. Of the total number of people arrested, 294 were female while 5, 058 were male. Juveniles between the age of 11 and 17 accounted for 370 persons. Further, 3, 541 drug related cases were concluded at court as at 31st December, 2019 which included 2, 945 convictions and 114 acquittals. The remaining 482 were concluded on various outcomes. On overall, a total of 135.08 tonnes of...

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MEDIA BRIEFING BY THE YOUNG AFRICAN LEADERS INITIATIVE ON PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO BILL 10 HELD AT MIKA LODGE AND ADDRESSED BY YALI GOVERNANCE AND LEGAL ADVISOR, ISAAC MWANZA Saturday, 14 March 2020 The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) commends Cabinet for making the Government position known as regards public recommendations to amend the Constitution of Zambia Amendment Bill No. 10 of 2019. What we are particularly happy about is the public notification that Cabinet, through the Minister of Justice, will be submitting a proposal for amendments of Bill No. 10 to removal contentious provisions which did not sit well with...

#tobaccocontrolbeyondZambia By Derrick Sinjela A RANGE of things need to be done to curtail supply and demand through harm reduction strategies that aim at reducing suppy, eliminate or reduce consumption and exposure to any form of tobacco,” prods Professor Fastone Mathew Goma Officiating at a Centre for Primary Care Research -University of Zambia School of Medicine Media Workshop, at Mika Lodge, Jesmodine, on Saturday 14th March 2020, Professor Goma says once people know ramifications of smoking, such enslaved communities will heed a tobacco-free language. Professor Goma wondered possibility of letting a monkey guard a maize field, pointing out that the...