The ruling PF 2015 campaign media team has dismissed as lies and malicious suggestions by some online media reports that ill health prevented PF president Edgar Lungu to resume his campaigns on Saturday yesterday. PF campaign media team chairperson Emmanuel Mwamba says much as such malicious media reports should not be dignified by a response from his party, he is ...

Ruling PF President Edgar Lungu will tomorrow fly to Northern Province for his scheduled campaign program. Mr. Lungu has insisted that no public facilities or public resources will be used in this campaign. Mr. Lungu who is also Defense and Justice Minister has also  insisted that his party should raise its own resources and makes all arrangements for his travels ...

An AirAsia flight travelling from Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control with 162 people on board. Flight QZ8501 lost contact at 07:24 (23:24 GMT), Malaysia-based AirAsia tweeted. Search and rescue operations are under way. Malaysia’s national carrier Malaysia Airlines has suffered two disasters this year – flights MH370 and MH17 – but AirAsia has never lost ...

Green Party President Peter Sinkamba has pledged to improve health-care provision in Zambia if elected the country’s President in the 2015 general elections. Mr. Sinkamba says his government will create a health insurance scheme linked to social security with the view of supporting poor families who cannot afford costs related to health care. He says once elected President he will ...

The opposition ABZ has urged Zambians to continue praying for political parties to sustain the country’s peace ahead of the 2015 presidential election. The ABZ’s call for continued prayers follows its observation of the indication by some sections of the media that allegedly seem to be disappointed to see the two rival groups in the ruling PF reconciling and choosing ...

Australia captain Steve Smith scored a career-best 192 to help his side set an imposing target of 530 on day two of the third Test against India. Smith added to his overnight 72 to move on to his third consecutive century, with Brad Haddin (55) and Ryan Harris (74) further burnishing the tally. India lost opener Shikhar Dhawan for 28 ...

Egypt has banned a Hollywood film based on the Biblical book of Exodus because of what censors described as “historical inaccuracies”. The head of the censorship board said these included the film’s depiction of Jews as having built the Pyramids, and that an earthquake, not a miracle by Moses, caused the Red Sea to part. Exodus: Gods and Kings stars ...

A top al-Shabab militant, Zakariya Ahmed Ismail Hersi, has given himself up, Somali officials say. Mr Hersi, a leading figure in the militant group’s intelligence wing, surrendered to police in the Gedo region, local media report. In June 2012, the US state department offered $3m (£1.9m, 2.5m euros) for information leading to his capture. It comes three months after al-Shabab ...

The ruling PF’s campaign program that was planned to resume today Saturday the 27th of December has been rescheduled to Monday the 29th of December. PF President Edgar Lungu was due to continue his presidential campaign in Kaputa, Nsama and Mpulungu 2014. In a statement obtained by Qfm News Northern Province Deputy Minister Freedom Sikazwe has disclosed that the delay ...

The opposition ZED President Frederick Mutesa has observed that the January 20th, 2015 presidential election has now become a noticeable two-horse race between the ruling PF’s candidate Edgar Lungu and UPND’s Hakainde Hichilema. Dr. Mutesa has however noted that it is still also possible that things could change as someone else could emerge a serious contender, but that this is ...