One USA Dollar is now selling above K7.4019 or (K7400). This is the lowest the Kwacha has fallen since the time of Fredrick Chiluba.

One British Pound is going at K11. 0113 or K11, 000 according to Zambia National Commercial Bank rates for Friday 13, 2015.

Meanwhile, fuel blues have continued across the country.

In South Africa, president Edgar Lungu has spent the third night in hospital in what the country is being told is a minor swallowing problem.