Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has led tributes to compatriot and former Ivory Coast defender Steve Gohouri who died at the age of 34. The ex-Wigan player went missing on 12 December after a Christmas party with his German club TSV Steinbach. German police confirmed his body had been found in the River Rhine in the western city of Krefeld ...

A Hong Kong bookseller who went missing several days ago is thought to be in detention in mainland China. The wife of Lee Bo said her husband had called her from a telephone number in Shenzhen to say he was helping with an investigation. Mr Lee is the fifth person linked to the same bookshop to go missing in the ...

Zambians have been called upon to pray for the success of President Edgar Lungu’s assenting to the Constitution Bills on Tuesday the 5th of January this week. People in the Country are being urged to do so keeping in mind how big the event to assent to the Constitution Bills will be in the life of their Country’s multiparty Democracy. ...

President Edgar Lungu has directed ZESCO to with immediate effect revert back to the old electricity tariffs which were hiked late last year. The President’s Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda has confirmed the development this afternoon. Mr. Chanda has disclosed to Qfm News by telephone that the directive was to be effected on 1st January last ...

Prepaid meters fitted in residential Houses in Kafue District are reported to have expired and created a water crisis in the area. The prepaid meters which are a property of the Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company (LWSC) are said to have expired on Friday the 1st January last week. Information reaching Qfm News suggests that there has been no water ...

Speculative pricing by market players has been cited as the factor that is driving Zambia’s inflation. Former Finance Minister Katele Kalumba has observed that this speculative pricing is being propagated despite market players in all industries knowing what the real costs are. Dr. Kalumba has however suggested that amidst this pricing practices government can still on the other hand reign ...

Government has been advised against assuming that amendments made to the Country’s constitution will resolve the issue of the Barotseland Agreement of 1964. Opposition MMD president Nevers Mumba does not believe the issue of the Barotseland Agreement will end by simply assenting to the Constitutional Bills that have been passed by Parliament. Dr. Mumba is of the view that much ...

The United States has expressed concern that Saudi Arabia’s execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr could further exacerbate sectarian rivalry in the Middle East. The US State Department urged leaders throughout the region to redouble efforts to lower tensions. Iranian protesters angry over the execution stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran, setting fire to the building. Sheikh Nimr ...

The Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) has observed that it is the responsibility of the Church to lead the crusade towards peaceful general elections this year. Executive Director Pukuta Mwanza says the churches with their unique position should prevail on members who are supporters of the various political parties to put Zambia first in their politicking. Reverend Mwanza has called ...

President Edgar Lungu is confident that he will get at least 71 percent of the votes during this year’s general elections. President Lungu says he is thus not worried about his re-election this year because he is aware Zambians are solidly behind him. He says this is given what he has done in the country from the time that he ...