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By CHUSA SICHONE-A COUPLE of Lusaka West’s Kasupe area has been found dead and in a decomposed state outside their house.  

By KELVIN MUDENDA and CAROLINE NGWENGWE-A TRADITIONAL ruler has burnt to death four people, among them his estranged wife, his 82-year-old mother-in-law and two juveniles after locking the door to the house they were sleeping in before igniting it using petrol.  

By CHUSA SICHONE-A THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD man of Chongwe District has allegedly hacked his wife, the stepdaughter aged seven and two others with a machete after he accused his spouse, who had earlier refused to accompany him to a cemetery for alleged money rituals, of infidelity.  

By CHUSA SICHONEPRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has joined other Zambians in consoling the family of Chief Munkonge, the Bemba Royal Establishment and the Bemba-speaking people of Kasama District in the Northern Province following the death of the traditional leader.  

By CHUSA SICHONE-THE Human Rights Commission (HRC) has condemned the brutalising of nine police offices by villagers in Kamwanza area of Katete District while area traditional ruler Chieftainess Kawaza called on the police to thoroughly probe the attack and arrest the culprits of Saturday’s crime.  

By ESTHER NG’ANDU-OPPOSITION Citizens First president Harry Kalaba was at the weekend warned and cautioned by police in Kalulushi on the need to notify them when intending to engage in community interactions.  

By JAMES KUNDA-PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has urged the United Nations (UN) system to assist countries hosting refugees and asylum seekers with finance and logistics in the wake of various economic challenges that are affecting them.  

By JAMES KUNDA-FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have agreed on the need to treat Zambia’s debt restructuring situation as a matter of urgency.  

By CHUSA SICHONE-A THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD man of Lusaka has been arrested for allegedly defiling his four-year-old stepdaughter and a niece aged nine.  

By JOSEPH BANDA-TANZANIA’s former leader Jakaya Kikwete has said that the education sector in Africa is facing an unprecedented crisis, being felt in all corners of the continent.He said yesterday during the official opening of the Africa Innovation Summit in Lusaka that the crisis should be met boldly and expeditiously.