The Daily Nation is a privately owned daily newspaper published in Lusaka, Zambia, owned by veteran journalist Richard Sakala. The paper describes itself on its website as “The People’s Newspaper” and claims on the banner of its news site to pursue “justice and equity with integrity.” Reporters Without Borders identifies the Daily Nation, alongside News Diggers and The Mast, as one of Zambia’s three most influential private newspapers in the country. Successive governments have brought legal pressure to bear on the paper, most notably in December 2013 when Zambian police arrested and charged Sakala and production editor Simon Mwanza under Section 67 of the penal code for “publication of false information with intent to cause public alarm” in connection with a report citing civil society concerns about an alleged secret police militia recruitment, and again in 2014 when then-President Michael Sata personally filed and testified in a defamation suit against Sakala, which Freedom House documented as part of a broader pattern of official pressure on independent print outlets. The paper publishes daily print and digital editions and operates an e-paper subscription platform.