“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.