At least 32 bodies – and of the them children – have been recovered.

More than 70 people urgently need medical attention.

The death toll in the derailment of a freight train carrying stowaways – many of them hanging off the side of the train – is expected to rise when recovery teams lift wagons overturned in the Luembe River.

The crash in central Kasai province is the third in a month.

Five passengers died in a rail accident weeks ago.

The decrepit track and barely serviceable locomotives date back sixty years to the Congo’s colonial times.

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Lungu says he has information the Zambian judiciary might try to emulate the action of the Kenyan Supreme Court in annulling an election result.

President  Edgar Lungu says there will be chaos if Zambia’s judges step into the political arena.

He’s accused people, whom he will not name, of trying to force regime change in Zambia so that they manage the country the way they did in colonial times.

He says people who don’t love peace and freedom will accuse him of intimidating the courts of law.

This is not the case, he insists, he’s merely warning judges against becoming adventurous copy cats.

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