“I don't want to be buried under the new deal government's new dirty carpet,” Heritage Party president Brigadier General Godfrey Miyanda has said. In a complaint letter to Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) chairman Michael Musonda against Solicitor General Sunday Nkonde's request for the court to declare him a vexatious litigant, Brig. Gen. Miyanda stated that the country was currently being threatened by hoodlums.

Zambia National Students Union (ZANASU) president Godfrey Kumwenda, who represented Zambia at a congress in Windhoek, Namibia, said students wanted governments in the SADC region to abandon policies that pleased western capitalists, especially with regards to the privatisation of the education sector.

A report published by Greenpeace suggests that the US administration is using the famine in southern Africa as a marketing tool to push GM food in the continent. The document details how the offer of GM food aid by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the latest move in a ten-year marketing campaign designed to facilitate the introduction of US-developed GM crops into Africa.

Boldly proclaiming a decisive and historic battle against corruption, the Zambian government is locked in a bitter struggle with most of the Cabinet it replaced in January.
However, the way the government is going about its anti-corruption campaign has raised questions of whether it is not an old-fashioned power struggle instead.

Former finance ministry permanent secretary Stella Chibanda has appeared in a Lusaka magistrates' court in connection with the unexplained acquisition of property.

The European Commission (EC) has pledged to provide US $22 million to help fight HIV/AIDS in Zambia reports Irinnews. The funding is aimed at improving care and treatment for people living with the HI virus.

The withdrawal of foreign forces from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been applauded by Zambia, but the southern neighbour is also worried by the instability that could follow. "There are still some clashes here and there ...That causes concern for us, as when affected people start running, the first place they end up is Zambia," a government official explained.

Zambia is importing black rhinos from South Africa for restocking in its game parks where the species had been poached into extinction. The Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) says 25 black rhinos have been bought from South African National Parks for translocation into the Luangwa North National Park in eastern Zambia.

Niko's is a dingy 24-hour brothel in Zambia's southern tourist town of Livingstone. It is here that young girls, with few other opportunities to make money, live and work.

Do African adolescents know enough about AIDS to protect themselves against infection? What is the best way to educate them about the risks of HIV? A report from Population Services International evaluates a peer-led HIV prevention programme in a secondary school in Zambia.

Food aid for famine-stricken Zambia will come to a halt by early October unless the country lifts its ban on donations of genetically modified (GM) maize, the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) announced this week.

Former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba plans to fight allegations he is plotting the removal of the current president in court, aides said Sunday. Chiluba was responding to a letter sent to him and other opposition leaders by President Levy Mwanawasa Saturday which accused them of trying to topple him by misleading the Supreme Court.

The office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Zambia expects to repatriate about 40,000 Angolan refugees next year. UNHCR Zambia spokesman Kelvin Shimo told IRIN that the voluntary repatriation was likely to begin when the rainy season ends.

There was good and bad news for Zambian opposition parties this week when they asked the Supreme Court to nullify last December's election, which President Levy Mwanawasa officially won by the narrowest of margins. The good news was that the Supreme Court was willing to listen to them. The bad news was that with no time limit, any decision by the judges was likely to take a very long time in coming.

Ordinary Zambians are battling to cope with the effects of a food security crisis exacerbated by an economic slowdown. Joyce Mwenya is an example of the daily struggle faced by 80 percent of Zambians who live on less than US $1 a day. With a baby strapped to her back, the 33-year-old mother of three sells vegetables at the market in Kanyama, one of Lusaka's poor shanty towns.

An anti-corruption campaign by Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has helped transform his image from that of dubious victor of an illegitimate election, to a crusader out to cleanse the country of his predecessor's alleged sleaze. But human rights groups have begun to voice concern that the investigations are increasingly looking like a witch-hunt aimed at settling old political scores.

The Zambian government has allowed the World Food Programme to start distributing genetically modified (GM) food aid to refugees.

Former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba can be stripped of his immunity and face prosecution on corruption charges, a High Court has ruled.

Street children and child sex workers in Zambia's capital Lusaka will soon become familiar with a kerb crawler of a different kind - a mobile clinic equipped especially to treat children for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

Efforts to combat corruption in the last 10 years failed because of lack of political commitment, Transparency International (TI) board member Leonard Kalinde has said. Kalinde said there was an absence of top level commitment to the fight against corruption.