The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) is impressed that President Edgar Lungu has strived to try and bring back the country to where it was supposed to be in the one month of his tenure in office. YALI Governance Advisor Isaac Mwanza has told QFM News in an interview that it is too early for some people to criticize President ...

Greece is preparing to present a list of reforms to lenders in order to secure a bailout extension. Under Friday’s deal, the list must be approved by international creditors to secure the four-month loan extension. Analysts say a collapse of the deal would revive fears of a Greek exit from the euro. Minister of state Nikos Pappas has said the ...

Egypt has charged 215 supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood with forming a militant group. The country’s chief prosecutor accused the group – known as the Helwan Brigades – of killing six policemen and possessing weapons and ammunition. More than half of those charged are already in custody. Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members have been arrested since then-army head Abdel ...

Australia is to toughen citizenship laws and tackle those inciting hatred under new measures targeting domestic extremists, PM Tony Abbott has said. He said citizenship for dual nationals involved in terrorism could be suspended or even revoked. People born in Australia could also lose some privileges if they broke anti-terror laws, he added. Officials have warned that the country faces ...

Damn, even the Doctor himself doesn’t want anything to do with Suge Knight. The former Death Row executive claimed that Terry Crew called him and said Dr. Dre wanted to link up to end their beef. Unfortunately, things didn’t seem to go well, because Suge ended up getting thrown out by Dre’s security. When TMZ asked Dr. Dre about the ...

Actor Anthony Mackie has been convicted of driving while impaired. The The Captain America: Civil War star (but we remember him from She Hate Me) was pulled over by police in November of 2013 and they said he smelled of alcohol. Furthermore, they said his eyes were bloodshot red. He also allegedly failed a number of sobriety tests. His license ...

Ten-man Zesco United beat Nkana 5-4 on post-match penalties on Sunday at Arthur Davies Stadium in Kitwe to reach the 2015 Charity Shield final. The semifinal match was replayed on Sunday after Saturday’s scoreless draw was called off at halftime when a storm left the Arthur Davies pitch waterlogged. Nkana’s loss also saw them relinquish the Charity Shield that they ...

Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane stoked controversy with a goal six minutes into added time to rescue a 2-2 home draw with West Ham United while Liverpool’s top-four hopes were boosted by a 2-0 win at Southampton on Sunday. Kane’s status as the Premier League’s man-of-the-moment looked fully justified when he burst into the box to win a last-gasp penalty at ...

The opposition Green Party holds the view that the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) has not achieved much to ease adverse impacts of energy demand, especially wood and charcoal energy, on the environment. Green Party President Peter Sinkamba explains that the energy policy proposes that ZESCO and REA be unbundled and realigned to scale-up electrical grid upgrades in urban and rural ...

Financial Analyst Mambo Hamaundu says Zambians should brace themselves for economic challenges following the current external debt of over US$8 billion. Mr. Hamaundu says extra foreign exchange will be required to service the loan that government has acquired within three years. Mr. Hamaundu says there is need for government to slow down on borrowing saying the external debt is way ...