President Edgar Lungu says the country should completely eliminate malaria by 2021. And President Lungu has today launched the national malaria elimination strategy 2017-2021 which outlines various interventions towards the elimination of malaria. In a speech read on his behalf by health minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya, during the commemoration of the World Malaria day and launch of the national malaria ...

Has Zoe Saldana let slip that the title of the fourth Avengers film is Avengers: Infinity Gauntlet? Speaking at the Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 premiere, the actress, who plays Gamora, talked about the involvement of Guardians stars in the Avengers films. Asked about the third Avengers film on Monday, she said: “I think the Guardians just shot their ...

Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka was met with groans as she defended her father’s attitude towards women at the G20 women’s summit in Berlin. The First Daughter was taking part in a panel discussion about female entrepreneurs alongside German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and IMF chief Christine Lagarde. But the audience bristled at her praise for the US president. The event is ...

Two people were yesterday shot and injured by an unknown person wearing a Police combat uniform in Lusaka’s Kamwala area. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo says shooting incident happened at about 16:00 hours near Kamwala Prisons in which a mini bus driver and a passenger were shot. Ms Katongo says efforts are being made to establish whether the assailant is a ...

Rafael Benitez succeeded in his gamble of staying on as manager as he steered Newcastle United straight back up to the Premier League with a 4-1 win over Preston on Monday. The former Liverpool, Chelsea and Real Madrid boss stayed on after they were relegated to the Championship at the end of last season and even though Newcastle stumbled of ...

Sir Elton John suffered a “potentially deadly” bacterial infection during a tour, forcing him to spend two nights in intensive care and cancel concerts in the US, his management says. The singer became violently ill at the end of a tour of South America last week, requiring him to return to the UK for urgent treatment. Nine concerts that were ...

Kenya has arrested an unspecified number of suspects and recovered a gun potentially linked to the shooting of conservationist Kuki Gallmann, the country’s interior minister said. The 73-year old author of I Dreamed of Africa was injured in an ambush at her conservation park on Sunday. Ms Gallmann’s family said she was in intensive care at a Nairobi hospital. She ...

The Felix Mutati led MMD faction has charged that it’s presently unattainable for any government in Zambia to usurp the people’s rights. Faction National Secretary Raphael Nakachinda says it is also a fallacy for anyone to assume that a Democratic Country like Zambia can be governed by a dictatorship. Mr. Nakachinda says the ruling PF has no capacity to reintroduce ...

Transparent International Zambia has charged that President Edgar Lungu is not walking the talk in fight against corruption. TIZ Executive Director, Wesley Chibamba says President Lungu cannot claim to be fighting corruption when he is silent on some of the ministers he said are corrupt. He says that while the head of state has on different platforms condemned corruption this ...

Political Scientist Dr. Alex Ng’oma says it is necessary that President Edgar Lungu declares a State of Emergency given the increasing cases of arson in the country. Dr. Ng’oma, who is also a Political Science Lecturer at the University of Zambia (UNZA), has explained that when the State of Emergency is declared, people’s rights and freedoms will be suspended as ...