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By Derrick Sinjela and Francis Maingaila OPERATION Save Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) National Secretary Raphael Nakachinda is pleading with President Edgar Chagwa Lungu to make necessary diplomatic arrangements to ensure that Dr. Nevers Sekwila Mumba arrested by security authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC) is released from custody forthwith. Flanked by former Deputy Minister in the Office of the Vice President, Mr. Gaston Sichilima, a worried Mr. Nakachinda told journalists at a Media Briefing hosted at the Operation Save MMD New Office Plot 50 opposite Olympia Secondary School on Kwacha Road in Lusaka that Dr....

By Francis Maingaila and Derrick Sinjela Youths from the Hakainde Hichilema’s United Party for National Development (UPND) and Dr. Chishimba Kambwili’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) will go on the streets to push the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to extend the thirty (30) day Sunday 9th November 2020 – Saturday 12th December Voter Registration Exercise. NDC Lusaka Provincial Youth Chairperson Nachama Simulinda and UPND Lusaka Youth Provincial Chairperson Anderson Banda told journalists at a joint media briefing that lots of people will be denied right to voter should the voter registration exercise is not extended. Mr. Simulinda noted many teething...

By Francis Maingaila and Derrick Sinjela UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) Chairperson for Elections Garry Nkombo has abandoned his burning desire to have President Edgar Chagwa Lungu impeached on account of Constitutional breaches. Mr, Nkombo, a UPND Mazabuka Central Member of Parliament in the Southern Province attributed the decision to dim the candlelight on President Lungu’s impeachment to impediments by the National Assembly. A concerning Nkombo told journalists at the UPND Secretariat that at the time the motion for impeachment was moved, a court action was in motion and could not proceed until the matter is disposed off. “I...