The Zambian Voice says failure to enact the Access to Information Bill at the time Zambia is celebrating its golden Jubilee is an indictment on the part of the Patriotic Front government. Executive Director Chilufya Tayali says his organization expected that with this law in place, the media would have been allowed to operate freely 50 years after the country’s ...

The Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) has commended State house for coming out in the open and announcing that President Michael Sata has left the country for medical checkup. FODEP Executive Director MacDonald Chipenzi has told QFM News that State House has done recommendable job for coming out in the open with regards to the President’s health. Mr Chipenzi says ...

British actress and presenter Lynda Bellingham, who had cancer, has died aged 66, her agent has confirmed. Sue Latimer said she died yesterday “in her husband’s arms”. The actress, best known for her long-running role as a mother in the Oxo TV adverts, had been battling colon cancer since being diagnosed in July 2013. Bellingham said she had planned to ...

Turkey will allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross the Syrian border to fight Islamic State (IS) militants in Kobane, its foreign minister says. Mevlut Cavusoglu added that talks on the subject were continuing, but gave no further details. Tens of thousands of people have fled months of fighting in Kobane between IS forces and Syrian Kurd defenders. Until now Turkey ...

Zambia striker Rodgers Kola on Saturday scored a goal to help lift Ironi Kiryat Shmona to the top of the Israel top flight table. Kola scored Shmona’s final goal in the second half in the home sides’ 3-0 win over tenth placed Maccabi Petah Tikva on Saturday night. The 25-year-old Zambia striker who started the match found the target in ...

The Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) says there is need to seriously deal with the issue of corruption in the judiciary and legal profession. LAZ President George Chisanga says the association is happy that government has since embarked on the legal and justice reforms. Mr. Chisanga says the legal and justice reforms will help enhance integrity and ethical practice, and ...

Youth and Sport Minister Chishimba Kambwili says he will not waste time harboring Presidential ambitions when Presidents are born and not made. Mr Kambwili says all the Presidents Zambia has had so far were destined to be by God. Mr Kambwili says it will be unreasonable for anybody to start vying to be President when there is already a sitting ...

President Michael Sata last night left for a medical check- up abroad. Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations George Chellah has confirmed in a brief statement made available to QFM News without giving further details. Mr Chellah says President Sata is accompanied by First Lady Dr Christine Kaseba and some family. Mr Chellah is also part of the President’s ...