President Edgar Lungu has been commended for releasing former Labour Minister Austin Liato and other convicts from prison on account of ill health. Green Party Leader Peter Sinkamba says the move is welcome considering that prisons are highly congested which is causing prisoners to suffer from different diseases. Mr.Sinkamba has since called on President Lungu to consider pardoning prisoners with ...

Republican President Edgar Lungu has been advised against shooting in the dark when he has intelligence information of party member undermining his government. The Zambian Voice says President Lungu should instead act with boldness on people he knows are undermining him and his government. Executive Director Chilufya Tayali says his organization is also aware that certain people in the ruling ...

The opposition Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) says there is need to seriously plan the future of the Agriculture sector if poverty in Zambia is to be eradicated. FDD President Edith Nawakwi says it is no longer necessary for government to continue abusing farmers by pretending that the floor price for crops such as maize, currently set at K75 ...

The Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) says there is need for the 2016 national budget to be able to stimulate sectors that are critical to poverty reduction. CSPR Executive Director Patrick Nshindano says much as it is important for government to focus on completing current infrastructure projects in the 2016 budget, there is need also for the 2016 budget ...

Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba has dismissed predictions that the country will default in repaying its Eurobonds. Mr. Yamba says the country will be able to make its first interest payment as well as repay the three Eurobonds. He says this is why government has created a sinking fund in which money will start put next year. Mr. Yamba ...

The ruling Patriotic Front (PF) in Shiwang’andu Constituency has expressed confidence of whitewashing the opposition in next year’s general election. Shiwang’andu Constituency Vice Chairman Cephas Ng’andu says the ruling party in the constituency will not have difficulties in winning elections starting from the ward through to the presidency. Mr. Ng’andu tells QFM News via telephone that the party is busy ...

Green party President Peter Sinkamba says Health Deputy Minister Chitalu Chilufya should stop disputing reports that there is a shortage of drugs in hospitals. Mr. Sinkamba has since challenged Dr. Chilufya to visit Kitwe Central Hospital which he says is one of those health facilities facing a drugs shortage. He says people are being given prescriptions to buy drugs from ...

The Patriotic Front (PF) says While the opposition have gone on rampage trying so hard to discredit the eight (8) months of President Edgar Lungu, his 18 month term of office will include major successes that will forever be engrained in Zambia’s history. PF Media and Publicity Vice Chairperson Sunday Chanda says the challenges faced by President Lungu upon becoming ...

United Party for National Development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichilema says targeted attacks on him by the Patriotic Front (PF) shows how worried they are of being removed from power in 2016. Reacting to PF Secretary General Davies Chama who has challenged him to hold a party convention Mr Hichilema says instead of attacking him, the PF should consider dealing with ...

At least 175 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia in the past year after unfair trials lacking basic safeguards, Amnesty International says. A new report alleges the Gulf kingdom’s “faulty justice system facilitates judicial executions on a mass scale”. In many cases, it adds, defendants are denied access to a lawyer and in some they are convicted on the ...