Jose Mourinho has launched a scathing attack on the Football Association after the Chelsea manager was fined and given a one-match suspended stadium ban. Mourinho was fined £50 000 on Wednesday after accepting a misconduct charge from the English FA for comments he made about the officials in the wake of a 3-1 loss to Southampton in the Premier League ...

EU states have approved an action plan for Turkey, which it is hoped will ease the flow of migrants to Europe. Nearly 600,000 migrants have reached the EU by sea so far this year, many of them travelling from Turkey to Greece before seeking to head north. Turkey made a number of demands in exchange for helping to stem the ...

Opposition Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD) Charles Milupi has observed that Zambians have denied themselves the best leadership by continuing to vote on tribal and regional basis. Mr Milupi tells QFM that Zambians do not vote based on the basis of one’s intelligence, but one’s tribe and regional origin. He notes that if people were voting on the basis ...

The Jesuit Center for Theological Reflection (JCTR) has welcomed the launch of the pilot e-voucher system for the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP). JCTR Executive Director Leonard Chiti says his organization welcomes the launch of the e-voucher system because it believes that the issue of middlemen in accessing farming inputs by farmers has been addressed. Father Chiti has told Qfm ...

Zambia Disability HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Programme Director, Elijah Ngwale, has expressed worry that mental health institutions are still under-funded and under-prioritized. Mr. Ngwale says that the supply of essential medicines needed by people with mental illness has remained irregular. He also notes with concern that people with mental illness still suffer discrimination, stigmatization and other human rights abuses. Mr. ...

The African Women Entrepreneurship Programme (AWEP) is happy with the move by the government to come up with a bank for women. AWEP Zambia Charter Chairperson Sylvia Banda says the move is a step in the right direction. Mrs. Banda says the move will go a long way in empowering women so that they in turn can contribute meaningfully to ...

The Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) has allayed fears that the declared day of prayer and fasting is linked to Satanism. EFZ Executive Director Reverend Pukuta Mwanza says the rumor is mere superstition aimed at frustrating people and discouraging them from taking part in the prayer and fasting. Rev Mwanza says October 18th has nothing to do with the mark ...