Editorial
Kwacha News is a Zambia-focused news publication. Its job is to report what actually happened, attribute every claim to its source, and put numbers and named people on the page. Everything below is how the newsroom holds itself to that line.
Every claim attaches to a named source — a public statement, a filing, an official, a document, a dataset. Anonymous sourcing is reserved for cases where the public interest is clear and the source faces real personal or professional risk if named. When we cite an anonymous source we identify their proximity to the matter ("two officials briefed on the negotiations") and we never use the framing as a fig leaf for our own assumptions.
Facts are checked against primary sources before publication. When we reproduce a quote we have not heard ourselves, we attribute it to the speaker and the venue/occasion — not to the outlet that originally transcribed it. For competitor Zambian publications we do not credit the outlet at all; the quote stands on the speaker.
Kwacha News has no political affiliation. It accepts no payment from any party, campaign, government or company in exchange for coverage. Sponsored content is labelled and produced by a commercial team that does not communicate with the newsroom about story selection.
Reporters disclose financial holdings in the sectors they cover. Equity positions in mining, financial services, fintech and telecoms operating in Zambia or the wider region are particularly relevant; staff with such positions do not cover those companies. The Kwacha News Editorial Board maintains the disclosure register.
We use machine assistance for routine production work — image sourcing, metadata, structured data, search optimisation. Every published article is edited by a named human and the editorial responsibility is human. We do not publish AI-generated photographs of identifiable people in news contexts; the standard is real, licensed photography with the photographer credited.
We publish corrections at the foot of the affected article and link to them from our corrections page. Significant errors get a separate correction notice on the homepage. Readers who notice an error are asked to write to corrections@kwachanews.com.