Republican President Edgar Lungu has wasted no time getting down to work following his return from South African where he underwent a successful medical procedure for Achalasia, a disorder of the esophagus that prevents normal swallowing. President Lungu who returned yesterday, this morning chaired a Cabinet meeting at State House attended by sixteen Ministers. President Lungu who was in a ...

Zambia U20 men’s national team coach Hector Chilombo shared his disappointment over the nature of his side’s 5-2 loss to South Africa at the 2015 African Youth Championships on Sunday. “We took time to settle and perhaps we gave to much respect and room for South Africa to capitalise on our shortcomings,” Chilombo told fazfootball.com. “When we went to the ...

Cyclone Pam has “wiped out” development in Vanuatu, its president said, amid ongoing concern over residents of the Pacific nation’s outlying islands. Aid has begun arriving in the storm-hit nation – one of the world’s poorest – where trees and power lines have been felled and many buildings destroyed. Aid agencies say it could be one of the worst disasters ...

The Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS) has implored food manufacturers in Zambia to certify their products with it in order that consumers can make informed choices about the quality of products that they buy and eat. ZABS Head of Marketing and Public Relations Hazel Zulu says manufacturers have a critical role to play in promoting a healthy diet for the ...

The Network of Zambian People Living with HIV/AIDS (NZP+) says it stands resolute to committing itself to the successful implementation of strategies aimed at eliminating HIV/AIDS. NZP+ Programme Manager Kunyima Banda says his organization is already in the process of strengthening operations with the collaboration of the National Aids Council (NAC) and the UN joint team. Ms. Banda says NZP ...

The opposition Alliance for Better Zambia (ABZ) has observed that the manner that President Edgar Lungu’s illness has been handled has helped to preserve his popularity. ABZ president Frank Bwalya says the transparency that has surrounded the health of President Lungu from the time he fell ill to date has in fact won the President respect and sympathy from the ...

The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflections (JCTR) has called on government to quickly find ways of stabilizing the Kwacha. The JCTR wants government to also hasten in addressing the issue of fuel shortage in the country. Executive Director Leonard Chiti says his organization has fears that the fuel shortage and the continued falling of the kwacha will negatively affect the ...

The United States will “have to negotiate in the end” with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Secretary of State John Kerry has said. Speaking on the fourth anniversary of the civil war, Mr Kerry said the conflict was “one of the worst tragedies any of us have seen”. He said the US was pushing President Assad to begin negotiations again after ...

Government has been cautioned not to manipulate the constitution in its quest to have Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Mutembo Nchito removed from office. The Zambian Voice says all citizens in the country are equal before the law and therefore Executive powers are not supposed to be used to fix adversaries. Executive Director Chilufya Tayali says his organization thinks that ...

The opposition UPND says as a government in waiting it still supports the need for Zambia to have a new Constitution that is people driven. The UPND has also maintained that the country’s new supreme law must be adopted through a referendum and not through parliament. In a statement to Qfm News UPND Deputy Secretary General for politics Kuchunga Simusamba ...