Three church mother bodies have demanded the immediate release of incarcerated UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema. The Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops, Council of Churches in Zambia and Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia have said that Mr Hichilema’s continued detention is a sign of dictatorship in the country. Speaking on behalf of the three church mothers bodies during a joint news conference, ...

The Oasis Forum has called on all political parties in the country to embrace unity and peace. Chairperson Linda Kasonde says Zambia is bigger than any individual, further stating that politicians should dwell above party lines, tribe or race and embrace peace. Ms Kasonde who is also Law Association of Zambia president has told QTV news that the ruling and ...

Finnish Ambassador to Zambia Timo Olkkonen has expressed concern over delays in implementing and completing projects funded by his government. Mr. Olkkonen says such delays could impede development. He has told Q-news that a number of projects funded by the Finnish government have not been very successful owing to delays in their implementation. And Mr. Olkkonen says while Zambia is ...

The Islamic Supreme Council of Zambia (ISCZ) says UPND Members of Parliament will be to blame should the PF government amend the constitution through Parliament during their absence from the house. Council President Suzyo Zimba has told Qtv News that as things stand, PF Members of Parliament can do anything to the Republican constitution without facing any opposition. He says ...

People’s Party president Mike Mulongoti says the move by the Speaker of the National Assembly to suspend UPND Members of Parliament has disadvantaged the electorate in the affected constituencies who have been deprived of representation. On Tuesday, Speaker of the National Assembly Dr. Patrick Matibini suspended 48 UPND Members of Parliament who boycotted President Edgar Lungu’s state of the Nation ...

John Lithgow as The Joker? It’s not as crackpot as it appears, as the star of The Crown was once in the frame to play the comic book supervillain. Correction: The lanky 71-year-old was actually tapped to play Batman’s cackling nemesis TWICE – first in a Joe Dante movie that never got made, and again in Tim Burton’s 1989 blockbuster. ...

Some of football’s biggest names remain linked with a move to China but a 100 percent tax on transfer fees looks likely to hit spending when the country’s transfer window opens on Monday. Wayne Rooney, Diego Costa and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang are among the stars rumoured to be considering big-money moves to the Chinese Super League (CSL), which has been smashing ...

Ghana’s Black Princesses have been drawn to face Algeria in the qualifiers to the 2018 Fifa Under-20 Women’s World Cup. Nineteen African countries will vie for the two available slots to represent the continent at next year’s World Cup to be hosted by France. Six countries have been drawn in the preliminary round of the four-stage qualifying tournament for Africa. ...

A team of US doctors have found “no sign of botulism” in the American student freed by North Korea after more than 15 months in captivity. The regime had said the 22-year-old Otto Warmbier’s coma was caused last year by botulism and a sleeping pill he took after his trial. He has not spoken since his return to his family ...

Police have warned they may never be able to identify all of the people who died in the fire that engulfed a west London block of flats. Emergency services are to spend a third day searching for bodies in the burnt-out Grenfell Tower in North Kensington. Seventeen people are known to have died but that figure is set to rise, ...