The European Union has given Zambia 1.8 million Euros under the second European Union Development Fund (EDF) Aviation Sector Support Programme. The EDF is a 4-year project designed to support the development of a reliable and effective aviation sector in Zambia. EU Head of Section, Adam Grodzicki says the project will also help Zambia’s Aviation Authority and Aviation stakeholders to ...

Same-sex marriage will become legal in Australia after a historic bill was passed in the House of Representatives. An overwhelming majority of MPs voted to change the Marriage Act, eight days after a similarly decisive result in the Senate. The vote set off immediate celebrations in parliament, prompting cheers, applause and even a song. The result brings an end to ...

The Ministry of Health says it has made progress in the provision of Antiretroviral therapy (ART) with over 900 thousand HIV patients currently on treatment countrywide. Speaking in Lusaka during the first ever HIV/AIDS Champions awards ceremony aimed at appreciating people who have largely contributed to the fight against HIV/AIDS, ministry of health’s Director of Public health Dr. Andrew Silumesi ...

But Dr Chilufya has told parliament that the country has adequate stocks of Antiretroviral drugs and that there is no rationing of the drugs. And Dr Chilufya says government decided to shift the commemoration of the World AIDS Day for 2017 from 1st December to 11th December in order to allow for more participation countrywide. He says this was done ...

First Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Catherine Namugala today curtailed Roan Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili’s debate on the Anti Corruption Commission’s budgetary allocation after he said that President Edgar Lungu is not fighting corruption but is part of the corruption. In his debate before he was curtailed, Mr Kambwili said the amount of corruption allegedly taking place in ...

The World Bank says Zambia’s economic recovery has remained subdued in 2017 despite a bumper harvest, improved electricity generation and the easing of monetary policy, with debt being recorded at 13.3 billion United States dollars at the end of 2016. Speaking in Lusaka during the launch of the 10th Zambia Economic brief titled “How can Zambia borrow without sorrow”, World ...

Two women have been murdered by their lovers in two separate incidents in Central province. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo says in one incident Police have launched a manhunt for a man only identified as Ozzy of Makululu Compound in Kabwe in connection with the murder of his lover identified as Queen Kapikanya aged 27 years also of the same Compound. ...

Mines Minister Christopher Yaluma is not happy with the manner small scale emerald miners have been operating in the country. Mr. Yaluma says the miners have not been able to generate enough revenue because they have been operating on hand to mouth basis. He says wants small scale miners to generate enough revenue to contribute to the national coffers. He tells ...

Government has been called upon to ensure it strengthens the medical supply chain to avoid the running out of medical stocks more especially in rural areas. UPND Chairman for Rural Reconstruction and Development Moono Mapani tells Q-News that it is unfair for the poor people in rural areas to be given mere drug prescriptions when they visit health centers. Mr. ...

The Movement for National Transformation (MNT) says government lacks political will and courage to get the country out of the debt crisis. Party Leader Daniel Shimunza says the country is facing a number of potentially ruinous fiscal dangers that unless urgently tackled, threaten the already fragile public finances. Mr. Shimunza says the problem is that many influential leaders appear to underestimate, ...