Agriculture and Livestock Minister Given Lubinda has dismissed as misleading the suggestion that hunger is looming in the country. Mr Lubinda says there are enough stocks of maize in the reserves to take country to the next season in 2016. He explains that the consumption of maize in the country is 1.2 metric tonnes of maize per year and that ...

Transport, Works, Supply, and Communications Minister Yamfwa Mukanga has dismissed assertions that government has run out of money to implement the Link Zambia-8000 Road Project. Mr. Mukanga says most of the works on the roads under the Link-Zambia-8000 are ongoing and that he is hopeful they will be completed on time. He acknowledges that government had a few challenges the ...

Government says it will by June this year complete the labour law reform on fast tracking the amendment of the employment Act to abolish cazualization. Labour Minister Fackson Shamenda says contract employment will be restricted to jobs which are not of a permanent nature or those which have a life span. He says cazualization has become the order of the ...

The Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) has supported calls by Special Assistant to the President for Project Monitoring and Implementation Lucky Mulusa for the introduction of performance based contracts in the public service. CSPR Eastern Province Coordinator Maxson Nkhoma says the introduction of performance based contracts in the public service has been long overdue. Mr. Nkhoma believes that the ...

Pharrell has yet another day job. Besides being a coach on NBC’s The Voice and having a partnership with adidas, he has been appointed as the style director of  sustainability-focused projects in South Africa, BBC reports. “Williams is a global icon for social cohesion, advancement through education and environmental awareness,” said Ian Moir, the CEO of Woolworths, at a press conference in ...

BEYONCE‘S mum Tina Knowles has married partner Richard Lawson. And her proud superstar daughter – who attended the two-day ceremony on a luxury boat – couldn’t wait to show off their first photo as man and wife. Sharing the beautiful snap on her website under the ‘My Life’ category, her 61-year-old mum made quite the elegant bride. Owning the all-white theme ...

About 400 migrants are feared drowned after their boat capsized off Libya, survivors have told Save the Children. The Italian coast guard had rescued 144 people on Monday and launched an air and sea search operation in hopes of rescuing others. Save the Children said that many of the survivors were “young men, probably minors”. The European Union says that ...

President Barack Obama will remove Cuba from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House says. The move comes amid a normalisation of relations between the US and Cuba. The Caribbean country’s presence on the list alongside Syria, Iran and Sudan was a sticking point for Cuba during talks to reopen embassies. Republican Senator Marco Rubio condemned ...

Holders Real Madrid will need to maintain their intensity for the whole of next week’s return leg if they are to get past Atletico Madrid into the Champions League semifinals, coach Carlo Ancelotti said on Tuesday. Real dominated their city rivals in the first half of Tuesday’s quarterfinal, first leg at Atletico’s Calderon stadium but were unable to convert a ...

Juventus midfielder Arturo Vidal smashed home a second-half penalty to earn a 1-0 win at home to Monaco in an absorbing Champions League quarterfinal first leg on Tuesday, leaving the tie on a knife-edge. Vidal, who has missed two penalties this season, held his nerve and fired into the roof of the net in the 57th minute after Ricardo Carvalho ...