Top news items in major Zambia media outlets

The following are the highlights of Zambia's major media outlets on Wednesday.

-- Zambian President Edgar Lungu said he would not sit idle and allow anarchy in the country in the aftermath of the August 11 general elections.

Lungu, who visited a warehouse in Bauleni compound east of Lusaka that was burned down in the early hours of Tuesday, which he said was evidence enough of anarchy that should not be allowed to continue. Lungu, who was declared winner of the election, said he would not meet main opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema until there was peace in the southern part of the country and other strongholds of the main opposition party. (Times of Zambia)

-- Zambia's Attorney General has been joined to the presidential petition in which Zambia's main opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has challenged the election of President Edgar Lungu in the Constitutional Court.

Attorney General Likando Kalaluka applied to be joined to the matter because the opposition leader had made allegations against the public media, the Zambia Air Force and the Zambia Police Service. (Zambia Daily Mail)

-- Zambia's main opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has told his supporters in the southern part of the country to cease fire and stop attacking their opponents from the ruling party.

Hichilema's supporters have gone on rampage attacking and destroying property and houses of supporters of the ruling Patriotic Front in the aftermath of the August 11 polls, leading to hundreds of people being displaced. (Daily Nation) Endit