Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling has been withdrawn from the club’s pre-season tour, with the Reds in talks over a transfer with Manchester City. Sterling has asked to leave Anfield and was the subject of two bids from City in June, which were rejected. The 20-year-old is under contract until 2017, but has turned down a new £100,000-a-week deal at Liverpool. He ...

Atticus Finch, the crusading lawyer of To Kill a Mockingbird, has emerged as “a bigot” in Harper Lee’s eagerly awaited 1950s novel Go Set a Watchman. Early reviews for Lee’s novel, which was written before her masterpiece To Kill A Mockingbird, reveal Finch was originally penned as a segregationist. “This story is of the toppling of idols,” wrote Sam Sacks ...

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has called the talks on Greece’s debt rescue “extremely difficult” and ruled out “agreement at any price”. She was speaking as she arrived in Brussels for a meeting of the other 18 eurozone leaders to discuss the deal. They are considering proposals by eurozone finance ministers which would impose tough conditions on Athens. Greece risks being ...

Trustee of the Barotse National Freedom Alliance (BNFA) William Harrington has called on government to differentiate the Barotseland agreement of 1964 from the talks relating to secession of Southern Province. Mr. Harrington says the Barotseland issue is about abrogation of contract. He says the contract being the Barotseland agreement of 1964 and government’s alleged refuse to restore the marriage between ...

The opposition Zambia Direct Democracy Movement (ZDDM) has disclosed that it supports President Edgar Lungu because he is what it sees without a mask. The ZDDM says it however cannot force him to learn from it hence its decision to find its own path in national interest. ZDDM president Edwin Sakala has told Qfm News in a statement that instead ...

Political analyst Neo Simutanyi has called for a broad debate on whether former President Rupiah Banda’s immunity should be restored or not. Dr. Simutanyi says Mr. Banda’s case provides a basis on which the country should debate the importance of immunity, and when its there whether it should be removed so easily. In an interview by telephone with Qfm News ...

Political parties taking part in the August 6 Bangweulu parliamentary by-election, have been encouraged to sustain the same tranquility that was attained on the nomination day. The Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) is interest in seeing a credible electoral process in the by-election. FODEP Executive Director MacDonald Chipenzi has called on political parties to respect each other’s right to participate ...

The Grand Coalition on the Campaign for a People Driven Constitution in Zambia has commended Members of Parliament (MPs) for their reservations to unnecessary amendments to the Referendum Act. This follows last week’s Wednesday debate in the National Assembly on the Referendum Amendment Bill N.A.B No. 5 of 2015 that was presented by the Minister of Justice Ngosa Simbyakula for ...

Zambia has formally made its National Voluntary Presentation (NVP) to the UN Member States on progress made on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The NVP has also included the country’s strategy of transforming MDGs into Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which are due to be adopted in September this year. Delivering Zambia’s NVP titled: “Managing the transition from MDGs to SDGs: What ...

Government has been advised to investment in the new Kafue Gorge lower Hydro-power plant as a long term measure to evade shocks arising power deficits in Zambia. The Private Sector Development Association (PSDA) has also advised government to start being proactive in investing in newer power plants along the various rivers that the country has. PSDA chairperson Yusuf Dodia is ...