Zambian opposition politician Hakainde Hichilema extends his lead in the country’s hotly-contested polls, partial results show, after the incumbent president cries foul.

African leaders and diplomats on Friday joined Zambia in mourning its founding president and liberation hero Kenneth Kaunda, who died last month aged 97 after a bout of pneumonia.

Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's founding president has died at the age of 97.

Pirates abduct bigger groups of seafarers in the Gulf of Guinea these days.

China says US should learn lessons not to blur things out after Zambia denied John Bolton's accusations.

Another 10 people were injured after a dumping site for copper mining waste collapsed.

Zambian President Edgar Lungu directs the military to help fight the spread of cholera, which has killed 41 people in the nation's capital and made more than 1,500 others sick since late September.