Hunger is said to have hit some parts of Senanga District in Western Province due to poor rains experienced in most parts of the country during the 2014/15 farming season. Senanga Member of Parliament Likando Mufalali has told QFM News that if government through the office of the Vice President delays in coming to the aid of the people, people ...

Political Activist Dante Saunders has condemned Vice President Inonge Wina’s recent statement in Parliament pertaining to the holding of opposition rallies on the Copperbelt. Last week Vice-President Wina told Parliament that the government would not allow the opposition to take advantage of the economic situation on the Copperbelt and start campaigning. But Mr. Saunders says the economic challenges the country ...

Opposition Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD) Leader Charles Milupi has charged that Zambia is not only financially bankrupt, but is also bankrupt of sound polices and plans to proper it. Mr. Milupi says this is because of the PF government’s inconsistent policies. He says Zambia needs a strong and visionary leadership to deal with the current economic and political ...

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, ...