BY NELLY BOTA Police in Lusaka have apprehended four suspects who have been behind a spate of burglary and thefts that had rocked Lusaka’s Chelstone and surrounding area in the recent past. Police spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo who disclosed the arrests in a statement issued yesterday, said the four suspects…
BY KALALUKA MUSHAUKWA A 26 year old woman of Lusaka’s George compound yesterday committed suicide by taking a poisonous insecticide following a marital dispute. According to family members, the woman who has been identified as Esther Banda is believed to have consumed doom which mixed with Super Shake after an…
BY OSCAR NKHUWA Residents of Lusaka’s Mtendere and Kalikiliki compounds have reiterated calls on the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit-DMMU to quickly move in and assist families whose houses were submerged following heavy rains. The residents have complained to Komboni Radio News that no help has been rendered to the…
BY MONDE PHIRI Residents of Chawama Twatasha area have resorted to drawing contaminated water for drinking and domestic use from a shallow well following an erratic water supply that has hit the area. A Komboni radio news crew that visited the area this morning found the affected residents drawing water…
BY CORRESPODENT Irate transporters contracted to haulage the food reserve agency-FRA maize in Northern Province yesterday stormed the agencies’ regional office demanding to be paid their monies. They lamented in an interview that it is unfortunate that government has failed to honour its promise. The transporters stressed that they have…
Government has released Four Hundred and Thirty Five Thousand Kwacha for the installation of a water reticulation system at Chienge District Hospital in Luapula Province. Hospital Administrator, Stephen Mushinge Katota has told ZANIS in an interview that Government has awarded the contract to carry out the works to Edol Construction…
BY BOSTON MUVWANGA Youths from George compound have bemoaned the lack of recreational facilities in that area and have appealed to the area councilor to identify land where a football pitch can be constructed. Maxwell Banda has told Komboni radio news that the absence of recreational facilities in George compound…
A health crisis is looming in Tanzania’s refugee camps following an increase of refugees arriving in the country, medical charity MSF has said. Some 290,000 refugees, over three-quarters of them from Burundi, are crammed into three overstretched camps – Nyarugusu, Mtendeli and Nduta – MSF says. Nduta camp which was…