The Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) has distributed a total of 16,087.65 metric tons of maize has so far in eight provinces under the 2015/2016 relief food programme. Speaking during a media briefing in Lusaka this afternoon, DMMU National Coordinator Patrick Kangwa says distribution is currently taking place in all the affected districts and in the districts that were ...

First Lady Esther Lungu has called on government to urgently develop a Disability Management Information System that will ensure that evidence based practices are implemented. Mrs. Lungu says lack of data and information on disability and disability related indicators at national level contribute to the invisibility of persons with disabilities in official statistics. She says this presents a major obstacle ...

Agriculture Minister Given Lubinda says the treasury has released the remaining K247.5 million to settle the remaining farmers who had sold their maize to the Food Reserve Agency. Mr Lubinda has told Parliament in a ministerial statement that this is in addition to the K646.8 million released earlier, bringing the total paid out to farmers who sold their maize to ...

President Edgar Lungu has appointed members of the Advisory Board, Fundraising and Technical Committee to spearhead the construction of the National House of Prayer. Secretary to the Cabinet Dr. Rowland Msiska has told Journalists in Lusaka that the appointment of the 12 member board follows the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the National House of Prayer by President Lungu ...

An unidentified man of Lusaka has been electrocuted in a botched mission to steal a ZESCO underground power cable. ZESCO Spokesperson Henry Kapata has told QFM News that the deceased was in the company five people who attempted to cut the Ndeke underground armored cable along the road between Kamanga and Chelstone also known as Obama road. Mr. Kapata says ...

Higher Education Minister Michael Kaingu has announced that government is now ready to conduct safety and efficacy trials on the Sondashi Formula SF-2000 whose inventor Dr. Ludwig Sondashi claims it cures HIV/AIDS. Dr. Kaingu says this follows the processing of 23,000 Capsules in South Africa to be used in the trials. He has told Parliament in a ministerial statement today ...

  The mission to target so-called Islamic State militants in Syria could take “some time” and will require persistence, PM David Cameron has said. RAF Tornados carried out their first air strikes in Syria, “successfully” targeting IS-controlled oil fields, the Ministry of Defence confirmed. But the PM warned the operation would be complex and will require patience. It comes as ...

Two Fifa vice-presidents have been arrested in a dawn raid at a Swiss hotel on suspicion of accepting millions of dollars of bribes. Concacaf president Alfredo Hawit and Conmebol president Juan Angel Napout were taken from the Baur au Lac hotel, Zurich, where several Fifa officials were also arrested in May. Fifa’s executive committee has been meeting in the city, ...

Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of murder after a South African appeals court overturned an earlier manslaughter verdict. Pistorious killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013 after shooting four times through a locked toilet door. He is currently under house arrest after spending one year of his original five-year sentence in jail. Pistorius will have to ...

Deputy Speaker of National Assembly Mkhondo Lungu says the nation should be worried that Zambia records about 19, 000 new HIV infections every year. Speaking during the SADC national parliamentary project on sustainable HIV financing dialogue meeting at Parliament buildings this morning, Mr. Lungu says Zambia is still among the eight countries in the world that contribute 70 percent of ...