Chelsea’s week to forget ended with a day to forget on Saturday as their advantage at the Premier League summit was trimmed to five points by resurgent champions Manchester City. Tarnished by the incident last Tuesday that saw a group of the club’s fans prevent a black man from boarding a Paris Metro train while chanting racist songs, Chelsea were ...

Armed men have abducted at least 89 boys in South Sudan, the United Nations children’s agency has said. The incident happened in a camp in the northern city of Malakal that hosts thousands of people displaced by fighting between the army and rebels. Unicef says the unidentified gunmen went from house to house and seized boys over the age of ...

Rebels in eastern Ukraine have agreed to begin to pull back heavy weapons from the frontline, a Russian general involved in implementing a truce says. Gen Alexander Lentsov said the pro-Russian rebels had signed the orders to complete the withdrawal over the next two weeks, starting from Sunday. It is not clear whether the move will be reciprocated by Ukraine. ...

Australia’s security hotline received 18 calls about a self-styled cleric just days before his deadly attack on a Sydney cafe – but none suggested an imminent attack, a report says. It says the calls last December related to offensive Facebook posts by Man Haron Monis, who later took hostages at the Lindt cafe. Two hostages were killed along with the ...

Political Activist Dante Saunders says the pronouncement by Chief Government spokesperson Chishimba Kambwili over holding the referendum shows that the PF government is not willing to give Zambians a people driven constitution. Mr. Saunders states that he is on recording saying the PF is not committed to delivering the new constitution. Mr. Saunders says government is committed to delivering the ...

The Forum for African Women Educationalists of Zambia (FAWEZA) has called on government to expedite the formulation of education policies in a bid to address the challenges the education sector is going through. FAWEZA Executive Director Agnes Shipanuka says the education sector has over the past been struggling with a lot of challenges which she believes can be addressed by ...

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) says it needs about US$11 million to implement priority projects this year in Zambia. UNHCR Country Representative Laura Lo Castro says they need US$6 million for the first category. Ms. Castro however notes that some European donors have started withdrawing funding for refugee programmes in Zambia stressing that recently the Western world ...