Andy Murray suffered a collapse in form as a rejuvenated Rafael Nadal won their group match at the ATP World Tour Finals in London. Nadal edged a tight first set and then raced clear in the second to win 6-4 6-1 at the O2 Arena. The Spaniard could qualify for the semi-finals on Wednesday, depending on the result of the ...

The Christian Churches Monitoring Group (CCMG) has called on the Electoral Commission of Zambia, the civil society organizations and political parties to come up with strategies that will encourage more people to register as voters. CCMG Project Manager Ifomas Mulewa has noted an increase in political party participation in mobilizing citizens to register as voters from 35% in phase one ...

Martin Sheen has praised his actor son Charlie following the Platoon star’s confirmation he is living with HIV. “I couldn’t believe the level of courage I was witnessing,” the West Wing star said at an event in Florida. “I hope that this day is the first day of the rest of Charlie’s life as a free man,” the 75-year-old actor ...

The sub –regional tripartite conference on the ratification and implementation of the ILO protocol of 2014 to Forced Labor Convention has adopted its Lusaka communiqué with a call for immediate ratification of the forced labor protocol among member states. The delegates at the conference have recognized that the protocol confirms the obligations existing under the Convention No. 29 to suppress ...

The Office of the Vice President has dismissed assertions that it has delayed the distribution of relief food to hunger stricken Districts such as Kazungula in Southern Province. Deputy Minister Lazarus Chungu Bwalya says as far as he is concerned the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) has distributed close 1,200 metric tons of relief to Southern Province. Mr. Bwalya ...

A woman has blown herself up and a suspect was shot dead during a police raid on a flat in a Paris suburb, while seven arrests were made. Police targeted the flat in Saint-Denis in a search for the alleged mastermind of Friday’s gun and bomb attacks in Paris, when 129 people were killed. The fate of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, previously ...

The Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) says the job losses in the mining sector on the Copperbelt will no doubt lead to increased poverty levels in the country. CSPR Civic Participation and Advocacy Programme Officer Maxson Nkhoma says the Copperbelt Province has done well in terms of meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) number one of alleviating extreme poverty, ...

Former Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) president Rueben Lifuka has observed that pronouncements on the fight against corruption by the PF Government are not being followed with action. He notes that President Edgar Lungu, for example, has not come to the party to demonstrate that he means business by taking action against the perpetration of the vice in his government. Mr. ...

Suspected Patriotic Front (PF) cadres this morning invaded the United Party for National Development (UPND) regional offices in Kitwe attacking UPND members who were waiting to be addressed by their national leaders led party leader Hakainde Hichilema. UPND Spokesperson Charles Kakoma in a statement says the suspected PF cadres attacked the UPND members using pangas, axes, stones and other offensive ...

  Government says it has paid about 80% of farmers who have supplied Maize to Food Reserve Agency. Agriculture Deputy Minister Maxas Ng’onga says government will pay farmers all the outstanding arrears before the end of the year. He says the delay in paying some farmers is due to some banks procedures. Speaking in an interview, Mr. Ng’onga says the ...