Efforts to locate victims and wreckage of AirAsia flight QZ8501 which crashed into the Java Sea in Indonesia on Sunday are being hampered by stormy weather and strong tides. Indonesian officials have confirmed that remains and debris found in the waters off Borneo are from the plane. The authorities say that seven bodies have now been retrieved. The Airbus A320-200, ...

Striker Patrick Ngoma missed Zambia training on Tuesday after suffering an injury. Zambia team physician Doctor Joseph Kabungo said the Red Arrows and Zambia Under-20 strikers’ injury is not very serious. “Patrick sat out of training today due to a slight ankle problem but it is nothing serious,” Kabungo said. “The other 23 players are fine and training just fine.” ...

Youths for Transparency and Integrity (YTI) has encouraged government to remain firm on the new mining taxation regime. YTI Executive Director Bright Muchimba says foreign owned companies have not exhibited exceptional levels of integrity in the past and therefore government should find ways of getting a fair share from the country’s mineral wealth through taxation. Mr. Muchimba says government should ...

Political analyst Dante Saunders says UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema would win the presidential election if it was to be held today going by the support he is presently receiving. Mr. Saunders says from his own assessment of the country’s current political landscape, Mr. Hichilema would win by at least 60 percent of the national vote. Mr. Saunders has however told ...

Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) Executive Director Pukuta Mwanza has encouraged people to turn out in numbers and vote in the 20th January presidential election. Reverend Mwanza says it is important that people turn out in large numbers to vote for the candidate of their choice as God directs them. He says every Zambian is affected either negatively or positively ...

The Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) has appealed to all political parties to review their constitutions ahead of the 2016 tripartite elections to make them more user-friendly and democratic. FODEP Executive Director MacDonald Chipenzi in an end of year statement notes that 2014 was characterized by political confusions caused, partly by defective party constitutions, limited intra-political party democracies and poor ...

Barcelona will not be allowed to sign any players in 2015 after their appeal against a transfer ban was dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The Spanish club was handed a 14-month ban in April after being found guilty of breaching Fifa’s rules on the transfer of players aged under 18. Fifa rejected an appeal in August but ...

The Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal says it has handled 85 appeal cases from October 2012 to December 2014. Speaking at a media briefing in Lusaka today, CCPC head of tribunal secretariat Healey Mweemba says 75% of the total filed cases were consumer related cases, while 25% were competition in nature. Mr. Mweemba notes that prominent among the cases were ...

The ruling Patriotic Front (PF) in Mbala District in Northern Province has called on Kasama Central Member of Parliament Geoffrey Mwamba to resign from the party and form his own party. Addressing journalists in Mbala this morning, Mbala District Chairperson Matilda Lungu says Mr. Mwamba was wrong to insinuate that PF members in Northern Province have endorsed the candidature of ...

The Drug Enforcement Commission during the Christmas period arrested over sixty (60) people countrywide for unlawful cultivation and trafficking in various quantities of cannabis. Commission Public Relations Officer Theresa Katongo says among those arrested is George Matoka, 35, a peasant farmer of Mub’anga area in Kabompo District for unlawful cultivation of fresh cannabis plants weighing 676kg, Esther Kunda, 38, a ...