Veteran striker’s Collins Mbesuma and Jacob Mulenga have been recalled by Zambia coach George Lwandamina for next month’s 2017 Africa Cup Group E qualifier away to Kenya. The duo were discarded by ex-Zambia coach Honour Janza late last year in a radical shake-up of the team that included the axing of 2012 Africa Cup-winning captain Christopher Katongo. Mbesuma, of South ...

South Korea has ordered the evacuation of residents from an area of its western border after an exchange of fire with North Korea, reports say. North Korea fired a shell at a South Korean military unit on Thursday, prompting the south to retaliate with several artillery rounds, the South’s defence ministry said. South Korea’s National Security Council is due to ...

Government has embarked on an ambitious programme of ensuring that operations in the foreign missions do not escalate to levels they cannot contain. ZANIS reports from Gaborone that the Minister of Foreign Affairs Harry Kalaba told journalists in an interview yesterday that government is at present working on a programme to reduce the cost of doing business in foreign missions. ...

The Zambia Land Alliance (ZLA) has called for a stop to the continued sharing of land by political cadres in the country. Zambia Land Alliance Board Chairman Eugene Kabilika says there is need to stop Political interference from Land allocation. Mr. Kabilika says the only hope is to implement the Land policy that will ensure that 30 per cent of ...

Republican President Edgar Lungu has been cautioned to be wary the blame or praises will be squarely on him whatever the fate of ruling Patriotic Front (PF) will be after the 2016 general elections. The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) believes that as the leader of the ruling PF, President Lungu will have take responsibility of the actions he is ...

Republican President Edgar Lungu has asked party members that are wishing the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) defeat in the 2016 general elections to leave the party. President Lungu has particularly advised party members that are criticizing him and his administration to get out and join their company whom he has referred to as losers. He says if such members think that ...

Andy Murray has beaten veteran hardcourt specialist Mardy Fish to secure his place in the third round of the Cincinnati Masters. Britain’s Murray, 28, continued his preparations for the US Open at the end of the month with a 6-4 7-6 (7-1) win over the 33-year-old American. The Scot will now face Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in the next round. Murray ...

Australian actor Maggie Kirkpatrick has been found guilty by a court in Melbourne of sexually abusing a girl under 14 in 1984. Kirkpatrick, aged 74 and one of the stars of 1980s Australian TV drama Prisoner Cell Block H, had denied charges of gross indecency. But the court ruled she had abused the girl at her home in Prahan, Victoria. ...

Monday’s bombing in Thailand was “unlikely” to have been the work of an international terror group, the Thai government has said. Col Winthai Suvaree, a spokesman for the ruling military junta, said this was the preliminary conclusion reached by investigators. The attack on the Erawan Shrine in central Bangkok on Monday evening killed 20 people and injured scores. Police say ...

Ninety five (95) percent of the road works under phase 1 of the rehabilitation of Mongu urban townships roads and the added 3 kilometers of the road network have been done. Interview with QFM News, Mongu municipal council public officer Lusale Kaseba says all the asphalt works will be completed by the end of the week. Ms. Kaseba says this ...