Siavonga District Commissioner Lovemore Kanyama has called on the Ministry of Lands, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection to quickly move in and stop the increasing indiscriminate illegal cutting down of trees in Siavonga district. Mr. Kanyama says there is need to immediately stop the rampant deforestation taking place in the district being perpetrated mainly by charcoal burners. He says districts ...

Bwana Mkubwa Member of Parliament Dr Jonas Chanda says he has together with the Ndola City Council embarked on programmes aimed at ending illegal land allocations in Ndola. Dr. Chanda tells Q-News that it is unfortunate that cadres are taking up the task of land allocations when there are government wings mandated to do so. He notes that for a ...

Spain’s high court has summoned sacked Catalan leader Carles Puidgemont and 13 other members of his dismissed government to appear later this week. It also gave them three days to pay a deposit of €6.2m ($7.2m) to cover potential liabilities. The summons comes after Spain’s chief prosecutor on Monday said he would press charges including rebellion. Mr Puigdemont is in ...

The National Action for Quality Education in Zambia has expressed concern over reported cases of rampant examination leakages in the ongoing grade nine exams in some parts of the country. NAQEZ Executive Director Aaron Chansa says reports of pupils using leakage is a sad and a drawback to the provision of quality education in the nation. Mr Chansa says his ...

At least eight people have been killed and 11 seriously hurt in New York after the driver of a truck mowed down people on a cycle path in Lower Manhattan. A 29-year-old man who emerged from the white pick-up truck was shot by a police officer and arrested. Officials later said it was a terror attack. Media named him as ...

UPND Kalomo Central Member of Parliament Harry Kamboni has called for the total independence of the office of the Auditor General. Mr. Kamboni says the Auditor General’s office should be independent and free from any political interference in order to carry out public account audits effectively. He says the Auditor General’s Office is weak at the moment and that it ...

Immigration Officers have managed to arrest Nigerian Pastor Austin Ebosele of Omega Fire Ministries and is expected to be deported back to his country today for illegal stay in Zambia. Earlier, Pastor Ebosele and his wife had resisted arrest for close to four hours yesterday by locking themselves up in the house. He is said to have extended his stay ...