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By Linda Bordoni Pope Pius XI’s wish to invest in a radio station that would bring the voice of the Pope and the Gospel message to every corner of the earth goes back to the 1920s. So he asked the Italian inventor and electrical engineer, Guglielmo Marconi, to help him set up the enterprise. Thus, Vatican Radio was inaugurated on 12 February 1931 and entrusted to the Jesuit Order. Eight pontiffs later, the Pope is Francis, and it is with his voice we celebrate the Radio’s 90th anniversary i...

Musa Mwenye Former attorney general Musa Mwenye has weighed in on the killing by police of unarmed civilians Nsama Nsama and Joseph Kaunda saying Zambians made a mistake when they previously kept quiet on police brutality and other related atrocities. And Mwenye says he will, in collaboration with other members of the legal fraternity, ensure that circumstances surrounding the death of the two innocent civilians are investigated thoroughly and that justice is ultimately delivered. Speaking o...