Government has disclosed that the country’s HIV prevalence among adults aged between 15 and 49 is at 11.6 percent, while HIV prevalence among children from 0 to 14 is at 1.3 percent. This is according to the Zambia Population-Based HIV impact Assessment government undertook to measure the status of Zambia’s national HIV response. Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya disclosed during ...

About 350 victims have reported child sexual abuse within UK football clubs, police chiefs have said. The National Police Chiefs’ Council said a “significant number of calls” were made to forces after several former players made allegations of abuse against coaches. Its figures are also based on details from existing investigations as well as referrals from a new NSPCC helpline. ...

Finance Minister Felix Mutati says the plight of the depositors and employees of the repossessed Intermarket Banking Corporation Limited will only be determined once the Bank of Zambia has carried out an in-depth assessment of the bank with regards to the liabilities, assets and deposits. In a ministerial statement to Parliament on the Bank of Zambia’s possession of the bank, ...

Chelsea’s renaissance under Antonio Conte comes under renewed scrutiny when the Premier League leaders visit Manchester City this weekend on the back of a seven-match winning streak. Only one point separates the two sides with Chelsea on 31 and City on 30 but Conte’s impact at Stamford Bridge appears greater than his City counterpart Pep Guardiola’s at the Etihad. That ...

Kanye West is reportedly back at home more than a week after he was admitted to hospital with exhaustion. According to multiple reports in the US, the rapper left UCLA Medical Centre in Los Angeles with wife Kim Kardashian and his doctor, Michael Farzam. The 39-year-old was admitted to hospital last Monday suffering from “temporary psychosis due to sleep deprivation ...

New England manager Gareth Southgate says his side have the potential to give him closure by winning the European Championship in 2020. Southgate, whose position was confirmed on a four-year deal on Wednesday, missed a penalty at Wembley in hosts England’s semi-final shootout defeat by eventual champions Germany at Euro 96. Wembley will host the semi-finals and final of Euro ...

Actor Keo Woolford, best known for appearing in the Hawaii Five-0 remake as Detective James Chang, has died at the age of 49. He died on Monday at a hospital in Hawaii, three days after suffering a stroke, his publicist said. On stage, Woolford played the King of Siam in The King And I opposite Elaine Paige in London’s West ...

Colombian authorities say evidence is growing that a plane carrying a Brazilian football team crashed because it ran out of fuel as it tried to land. Civil aviation chief Alfredo Bocanegra said an initial inspection at the site indicated the plane “did not have fuel at the moment of impact”. It appeared to corroborate a leaked tape in which the ...

Former Finance Minister Katele Kalumba has hailed government’s cautiousness on the number of jobs it has targeted to create in 2017. Dr. Kalumba notes that the 100, 000 jobs the government has pledged to create in 2017 are realistic especially given Zambia’s current economic situation. In an interview with Qfm News, Dr. Kalumba says it is expected that by the ...

Government has been called upon to consider revising how to apportion allocations of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) taking into consideration the different needs of constituencies. PF Kasama Central Member of Parliament Kelvin Sampa says government should realize that constituencies in the country are at different levels of development and have different needs. Mr Sampa has wondered how for example ...