Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) has advised candidates taking part in this year’s August general elections to stork of the lessons learnt from the 2011 general elections. TIZ is reminding candidates to keep in mind that owing the levels of electoral malpractices in those general elections the Country ended up having over 60 election petitions. Executive Director Goodwell Lungu says what ...

Political parties have been encouraged to take pride in the confidence that has been reposed in the Zambia’s electoral system by independent observers. Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa Emmanuel Mwamba thinks that the international audit on the Country’s electoral system and the forensic audit on the voters’ register has brought local and international confidence that in fact Zambia’s electoral ...

Failure by the media to set public agenda has been cited as one of the reasons why politics in Zambia have become so petty. The Media Institute of Southern Africa ( MISA) is concerned that the media has allowed politicians to take its role of determining what the public agenda should be at a given time. MISA Zambia Chapter chairperson ...

The opposition UPND says it is not moved by prophesies that are suggesting that the ruling PF will win the August general elections. The UPND says its focus is to conduct campaigns as it believes that what the people of Zambia need is to be delivered from poverty and poor leadership. UPND Lusaka District Youth Vice Secretary Otis Bwalya says ...

The opposition UPND has described as provocative yesterday’s fly over of a PF campaign helicopter at its Chawama rally in Lusaka. UPND Secretary General Steven Katuka says his party finds it to be lawlessness that the helicopter had to drag a vote Edgar Lungu banner at a time his party officials were addressing party supporters. Mr. Katuka has told Qfm ...

Another big weekend awaits players of Rivers United as they face Sunshine Stars in Akure on match day 28 of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL). United are flying having won their last three games in all competitions but they face a stern test on Saturday against a Sunshine Stars side that have only lost once at home all season. ...

EASTENDERS viewers were SHOCKED after today’s episode. But, for once, it had nothing to do with the on-screen drama. Eagle-eyed viewers were more than a tad surprised to find out Kim Kardashian has been clothes shopping on Albert Square. Donna Yates was selling a VERY similar dress to the one the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star wore to the ...

Dutch international Georginio Wijnaldum’s eye-catching performances for Newcastle in their failed battle against relegation last season saw Premier League giants Liverpool sign him for a reported £25million on Friday. The 25-year-old, who scored 11 goals in 38 Premier League appearances for the Magpies last term after signing from PSV Eindhoven, said he was delighted to be joining such a historic ...

David Cameron made a late appeal to Germany’s Angela Merkel for limits on free movement of people if the UK voted Remain, BBC Newsnight has learned. The then-prime minister called the German leader days before the EU referendum, as opinion polls seemed to show voters moving to the Leave camp. But he later abandoned the idea of getting her and ...

A shooting at a Munich shopping centre which left nine people dead was carried out by one gunman who then killed himself, German police have said. The suspect was an 18-year-old German-Iranian dual national who lived in Munich, police told a news conference, but his motive is unclear. Sixteen people were injured, three critically, police added. A huge manhunt was ...