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UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema addressing media from his residence. UPND President Hakainde Hichilema has accused the country’s election mangers the Electoral Commission of Zambia of deliberately not providing the G12 in Lusaka so as to live room for manipulation of results. Mr Hichilema who spoke at a media briefing held at his house around 22:40hrs Sunday, said the G12 sheet is the only proscribed document which is the legal requirement used for recording ” the will of the people.” He said nothing can replace the G12 document which is supposed to be used to authenticate the results and that the document was deliberately left out in Lusaka so that the ECZ in collusion with the ruling PF can wait for results from other provinces and use the Lusaka vote to compensate for any deficits. He wondered how G12 can not be available in Lusaka where the ECZ is located adding that some polling stations are a stone’s throw from ECZ offices. He explained that the omission ...

Livingstone District Electoral officer Vivian Chikoti (left) and other electoral officers supervising the offloading of ballot papers and other election materials at the Civic Centre. THERE was growing tension and near punch-up last night at the Livingstone totalling centre between United Party for National Development (UPND) supporters and electoral officers following the delayed declaration of winning Member of Parliament, Mayor and councillors for Livingstone Constituency. According ro resuts, UPND won the presidential as well as parliamentary, mayoral and 16 out of 17 wards in the Constituency but only three councillors have so far been declared winners four days the electorates voted. UPND supporters lost patience and closed the totalling centre with journalists as well as monitors and police officers locked inside the centre as they demanded for announcing and declaration of winners. It was at this that UPND supporters roughed up and nearly punched some electo...

Waziri Mkuu Kassim Majaliwa akisalimiana na wadau mbalimbali wa kilimo walipowasiri katika maonesho ya wakulima ya nanenane katika viwanja vya John Mwakangale jijijni Mbeya na baadaye kufunga maonesho hayo. (Picha na Friday Simbaya) . Kwa miaka 10 imetumia dola za Marekani milioni 51 kuendeleza kilimo MBEYA: TAASISI ya Mapinduzi ya Kijani Barani Afrika (AGRA) imetoa wito kuwapo kwa matumizi zaidi ya teknolojia kwa wakulima wadogo ili kuwa na uhakika na usalama wa chakula huku wakiingiza ziada katika soko. Mtendaji wa taasisi hiyo nchini Tanzania Dk Mary Mgonja alisema hayo akizungumza na waandishi wa habari katika maonesho ya wakulima ya nanenane katika viwanja vya John Mwakangale mjini hapa. Katika mkutano huo taasisi zinazoshirikiana na AGRA katika kuleta mabadiliko kwa wakulima zipatazo 10 zilikuwapo. Dk Mgonja alisema ana matumaini makubwa na hali ya baadae ya kilimo nchini Tanzania na kuongeza kwamba matumizi zaidi ya teknoloji...