The Zambia Police says the decision whether or not to pursue the matter in Court in which Presidential Political Advisor Kaizer Zulu has been charged with Threatening Violence following a shooting incident at Chrismar Hotel, will depend on the complainant Enock Kavindele Junior formally withdrawing the complaint. Lusaka province Police Commissioner Charity Katanga has told QFM News in a telephone ...

The Islamic Supreme Council of Zambia says there is need to put a policy in place for human development. Council President Suzyo Zimba says people have to be developed to manage certain sectors of society unlike the case is where anyone can do anything and put in positions they have no knowledge about. He says if the country can have ...

Governance Activist Maurice Malambo says Zambia has learnt lessons from the current economic hardships on the importance of diversifying the country’s economy. Mr. Malambo says there is no doubt now that the country is paying for failing to diversify the economy saying the country had a chance of doing so. Mr. Malambo has however castigated former senior government officials who ...

Green party president Peter Sinkamba says the continued decline in the value of Kwacha can cause major financial difficulty to repay loans and finance deficits. Mr. Sinkamba says financing the deficits could be extremely delayed or never bridged citing that it is imperative that State House keeps off Central Bank to undertake correct measures without focusing entirely on the value ...

Liverpool have sacked manager Brendan Rodgers after three and a half years in charge. Ex-Borussia Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp is first choice to take over. Rodgers was dismissed after Sunday’s 1-1 draw at Everton, which left the Reds 10th in the Premier League, but the decision was made before the game. “Although this has been a difficult decision, we believe ...

Zambian Voice Executive Director Chilufya Tayali says President Lungu should start living up to his parliamentary speech now. Mr. Tayali says they believe that the President’s speech is very practical and it should start being implemented immediately to sort out the current challenges. He says the president should immediately evaluate the performance of his ministers based on his pronouncements of ...

The opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) has given government four conditions to meet before party members can attend the much talked about national day of prayer and fasting scheduled for October 18th, 2015. And the opposition political party has assured that for as long as the people who are calling for these prayers are not being sincere in ...

Space thriller The Martian, in which Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars, has landed at the top of the North American box office chart. The movie, directed by Ridley Scott, took $55m (£36m) over the weekend, according to studio estimates. That puts it on a par with the Oscar-winning Gravity, which took $55.8m two years ago and holds ...

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has said it is “disgusted” by Afghan government statements justifying an air strike on its hospital in Kunduz, calling it an “admission of a war crime”. MSF said the statement implies US and Afghan forces decided to bomb a hospital because of claims Taliban members were inside. The charity blames US-led Nato forces for Saturday’s attack ...