=DPELD evision station and seven (7) private and community radio stations. This is according to a press statement issued to MISA Zambia on the 30 May,2012 by the Press and Public Relations Officer at the Ministry of Information ,Broadcasting and Labour Betiniko Kayaya. The radio stations that have been issued licences include, Kariba FM radio (Siavonga), Kafue FM radio (Kafue), Mpika FM radio (Mpika), Comet FM radio (Lusaka). Others include Ama FM radio (Lusaka), Pan African FM radio (Lusaka) as well as Millennium FM radio of Lusaka. The Television Station has been named as North-West television (Solwezi). $OHUW Date: June 1, 2012 Person/ institution: Mpandmwike, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) Violation/ issue: Detained On 24 May 2012, Andrew Mpandmwike, a Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) reporter was nearly charged with criminal trespass while him, his driver and camera were detained for hours until his Assignment Editor Chansa Mayani intervened. Mpandamwike was harassed as he was covering an alleged abuse of the rights of a police officer who alleges that he had been transferred four times within a year. According to Edem Djokotoe in his column titled Soul to Soul, and published in The Post of 1 June 2012, Mpandamwike was assigned to peruse the story following a walk-in interview by a Police Officer identified as Sergeant Maxwell Kabungo who alleged that his children’s education was being 6R7KLVLV'HPRFUDF\" disrupted due to frequent transfers. And Chansa Mayani, the ZNBC Kitwe Studios assignments Editor said that Mpandamwike went $OHUW Date: June 11, 2012 Person/ institution: Richard Sakala, Daily Nation newspaper Violation/ issue: Legislation Defence Minister Geoffrey Mwamba, who is also a member of parliament for Kasama Central, has sued the Daily Nation newspaper editor-in-chief Richard Sakala for alleged defamation and is claiming K500 million as damages. According to the Zambia Daily Mail of 11 June, 2012 Mwamba has taken Sakala to court over an article titled “Malawi to sell oil donated by Zambia” published in May 2012 which contained allegations that controversy was till brewing over the transportation of donated fuel following reports that unregistered vehicles belonging to Mwamba were used to ferry the fuel to Malawi. $OHUW Date: June 12, 2012 Person/ institution: United Party for National Development (UNDP, the Daily Nation and Zambian Watchdog Violation/ issue: Legislation Zambian President Michael Sata has sued five person among them a President of an opposition political party, United Party for National Development (UNDP) Hakainde Hichilema, the Daily Nation and Zambian Watchdog media proprietors, Richard Sakala and Lloyd Himaambo respectively for defamation.