World Bank country Director Kundhavi Kadiresan says reducing child marriages and delaying teenage pregnancies among adolescents will be a smart thing for Zambia. Speaking during a high level policy workshop on pragmatic study on adolescent girls in Zambia, Kadiresan notes that global evidence shows that girls who delay marriage and child bearing reach a higher level of education. Ms. Kadiresan ...

The latest Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) Report has indicated that Zambia’s total public debt both internal and external remains sustainable under the current policy scenario. And Zambia’s current debt stands at four point eight billion US dollars (US$ 4.8 billion). Speaking during the launch of the Report in Lusaka this morning, Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba says results of ...

The Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) on the Copperbelt says it is reorganizing in readiness for the 2016 tripartite elections. FDD Copperbelt provincial Chairman Yotam Mtayachalo says they want to put in effective structures that will help the party to do better than it performed in the last presidential election. Mr. Mtayachalo has expressed confidence that his party under ...

Sub-chief Natende of Chiengi District in Luapula Province Katele Kalumba has noted the urgent need to improve fish farming in Lake Mweru that borders Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sub-Chief Natende says the potential for improved fish farming on the main water body of Lake Mweru is as good as that of Lake Kariba in Southern province. He ...

The Department of National Registration has been called upon to pay particular attention to citizens living in border and fishing camp areas in the ongoing countrywide mobile issuance of National Registration Cards. The Anti Voter Apathy Project (AVAP) says this is because these are the areas where people in most cases feel neglected and do not bother to have their ...

Eastern Province Permanent Secretary Chanda Kasolo is happy that farmers in the Province have started receiving farming inputs in readiness for the 2015/2016 farming season. Mr. Kasolo has told QFM News via telephone that trucks loaded with fertilizer from Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia (NCZ) have arrived in the province and farmers are receiving the inputs. Mr. Kasolo states that government ...

The Petroleum Transporters Association of Zambia (PTAZ) says the announcement by government that 20 percent of all fuel transportation business must be given to Zambian transporters was a mere political statement. PTAZ Spokesperson Benson Tembo says this is because no Zambian transporter is directly involved in the transportation of fuel. Mr Tembo says it is unfortunate that the Minister of ...

The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) says the continued steady rise in copper prices on the International market should act as an eye-opener to government not to be coaxed by the Mines to pay less tax. The price of copper on the international market has risen by about US$500 from last month’s price of US$5500 per metric ton. JCTR ...

Stuart Bingham beat Shaun Murphy 18-15 in a gripping final at the Crucible to win his first World Championship. Bingham began the final session with a 14-11 lead and won an epic 64-minute frame at 15-15 to close in on victory. The 38-year-old made a break of 65 to go 17-15 in front and clinched the title with a brilliant ...

A signed first edition of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by the late Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been stolen. It was being exhibited in a locked cabinet at the International Book Fair in the Colombian capital, Bogota. The fair, which closes on Monday, is dedicated to Garcia Marquez, who died last year at the age of ...