The Human Rights Commission has appealed to security agencies and defence forces to take the lead in abandoning practices that are repugnant to human rights norms in their training programmes Commission acting Chief, Information, Education and Training Simon Mulumbi in a statement says the reported inhumane treatment of recruits at the Zambia National Service (ZNS) Kabwe Training School as captured ...

The National AIDS Council (NAC) is confident of eliminating HIV in the country by 2020. Speaking during the inauguration ceremony for the new NAC Board members this morning, NAC Director General Jabin Mulwanda says this is despite many countries targeting to the pandemic by 2030. Dr Mulwanda says the National AIDS Council (NAC) is currently engaged with the Ministry of ...

England smashed the record for their highest ever one-day run chase to beat New Zealand by seven wickets at Trent Bridge and level the series at 2-2. By reaching their target of 350 in only 44 overs, England beat their previous best of 306-5 against Pakistan in 2000. Eoin Morgan and Joe Root both made centuries and shared a stand ...

Nine people have died in a shooting at a historic African-American church in Charleston in the US state of South Carolina, officials say. City police chief Gregory Mullen said eight of the victims were killed inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Thursday evening, while another person died shortly afterwards. Police are now searching for a white male suspect ...

Chris Evans has said auditions will be held to find his co-hosts for Top Gear. He told the BBC’s One Show anyone from around the world with “a real appetite for cars” was welcome to apply, whether they were “famous people” or not. “If you’re up for it, we want to hear from you,” the Radio 2 DJ added. Evans, ...

Chief Ufwenuka of the Tonga people in Monze district has bemoaned the delay by government in paying chiefs their allowances. He says government through the ministry of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs has the responsibility to pay traditional leaders their incentives on time. Chief Ufwenuka states that from last year, traditional leaders in southern province have been receiving their allowances very ...

The Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) says investor confidence in Zambia’s economy has been fully restored. ZDA Director General Patrick Chisanga says this is evidenced by the several delegations of prospective investors the country has been receiving from other countries. Mr. Chisanga says the country has had delegations of prospective investors from the US, China, Japan and France. He notes that ...

Financial Analyst Mambo Hamaundu has described as worrying Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda’s intention to raise the ceiling on external borrowing from the current K35 billion to K60 billion. Mr. Hamaundu says already the K35 billion ceiling on external debt borrowing is too high for government to be thinking raising it. He says increasing the debt ceiling to K60 billion will ...

Opposition political parties are suspicious of the intention by government to introduce the Political Parties Act. MMD Spokesperson Raphael Nakachinda says such legislation would be a way of silencing the opposition political parties. Mr. Nakachinda has told QFM News that it is wrong to regulate political parties which are not financed by the government. He has since challenged the government ...