Shakespeare’s Globe is to stage a performance of Hamlet at the migrant camp in Calais known as the “Jungle”. The event, on 3 February, is part of a two-year long world tour of the production which recently included a show for Yemeni refugees in Djibouti. Globe artistic director Dominic Dromgoole said it was “another wonderful example” of the tour’s “ability ...

Turkey says a Russian jet has violated its airspace and it has summoned the Russian ambassador to Ankara. The foreign ministry said a Russian SU-34 jet violated Turkish airspace on Friday despite warnings in Russian and English. Tensions have been high between Ankara and Moscow since Turkey shot down a Russian plane which violated its airspace near Syria in November. ...

Government has been counseled to learn to address the plight of students with the urgency it deserves because of the sensitivity of the institutions they are in. The International Fellowship of Christian Churches (IFCC) is urging government to consider funding students just as it funds the today today business of government. IFCC president Simon Chihana says his organization is aware ...

Government has been warned to be considerate that effecting cost reflective electricity tariffs is a wrong strategy for Zambia’s economy. Economic analyst Yusuf Dodia is advising government to be cautious that having higher electricity tariffs will in fact kill the Country’s industry. Mr. Dodia who is also Private Sector Development Association (PSDA) chairperson says such tariffs have already proved to ...

Some opposition political party leaders have signed a communiqué describing an electoral environment their parties want to see prior the August 11th general elections. The opposition leaders that signed the communiqué include UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema, MMD president Nevers Mumba, FDD leader Edith Nawakwi, Rainbow Party President Wynter Kabimba, PP leader Mike Mulongoti and APC leader Nason Msoni. Rainbow party ...

Another 16 people have starved to death in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya since UN aid convoys reached it earlier this month, according to charity Medecins Sans Frontieres. The charity says there are also 33 people in danger of dying. Brice de la Vigne, MSF operations director, said the situation was “totally unacceptable” when people “should have been evacuated ...

Government has embarked on preparatory work which will see the setting up of cooperatives across the country. Commerce, Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Raymond Mpundu disclosed in Pretoria yesterday that his Ministry is working on a report on the creation of the cooperatives which it envisaged to present to President Edgar Lungu by the end of February this year. Press ...

The Livingstone Subordinate Court has convicted and banned two Livingstone based unlicensed drivers from obtaining a Driving License in Zambia for the next 3 years. The two are Cliff Chinduka Chinkusu and Moses Mufungulwa both from Livingstone. According to an order made available to the Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA), the two were convicted of the offense of Driving ...

Former Chipata Municipal Council Town Clerk Ekan Chingangu has been arrested for misappropriation of a capital grant valued at K1, 000,000 The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has since charged him with willful failure to comply with applicable procedure relating to management of public funds and obtaining pecuniary advantage by false pretence contrary to the Laws of Zambia. It is alleged ...

President Edgar Lungu has been accused of having deliberately mislead the Zambian people that government is capable of creating 500, 000 jobs in just one year. The opposition UPND says President Lungu lied when he promised, during the launch of the 2015 Youth Policy and Action Plan for Youth Empowerment, that 500,000 jobs would be created by the end of ...