The ruling Patriotic Front (PF) has disowned images of toilet paper bearing President Edgar Lungu’s portrait circulating on social media. PF media director Sunday Chanda says the images are malicious aimed at bringing the name of the President into disrepute. He says party will not hesitate to report people circulating the images to the relevant investigative wings for defaming the ...

Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya says government disbursed over K64 million to fight the cholera epidemic which broke out in October year. Dr Chilufya says the K64 million so far used to fight the cholera outbreak which has so far claimed 85 lives countrywide was drawn from the treasury. Dr Chilufya said this in Parliament in response to a question by ...

Vice President Inonge Wina says Government remains committed to ensuring ballot papers for the 2021 general election are printed locally. Ms Wina says once the Government Printing Department meets the specific technical security requirements for undertaking the assignment as well as adherence to the Zambia Public Procurement Authority regulations; it will be able to print the ballots. Responding to a ...

Zambia Army Commandos from Mushili Unit in Ndola have today managed to retrieve all the six bodies of pupils who drowned in Poosa dam at Kachipapa farm in Serenje District of Central Province. Last Friday, six pupils, among them 2 girls, drowned, after a boat they were in capsized. The children, 12 in number from Poosa Primary School, were invited ...

Original drawings from Disney cartoons like Alice in Wonderland and Snow White could soon be lost to fading and decay. The individual hand-painted sheets that were used to make the films have become distorted and cracked over time. The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) is working with Disney to try to save the beloved pictures that led to some of the ...

Michelle Obama has sent congratulations to the makers of Black Panther after a weekend that saw the superhero film rack up blockbuster box-office takings. “I loved this movie,” wrote the former First Lady on Monday. “Because of you, young people will finally see superheroes that look like them on the big screen,” she said. And it seems she’s not alone ...

Search teams in Iran have found the wreckage of a passenger plane that crashed on Sunday. The Aseman Airlines flight came down in the Zagros mountains in the west of the country and all 66 people on board are feared to have died. Rescuers travelled to the wreckage on foot after a helicopter was unable to land on the snowy ...

Europe has seen a big surge in measles cases in 2017, which the World Health Organization says is a tragedy after a record low of 5,273 cases in 2016. Cases increased four-fold, with more than 20,000 people affected and 35 deaths. Fifteen European region countries, including the UK, had large outbreaks. Measles cases were highest in Romania, Italy and Ukraine. ...

Syrian pro-government forces have entered the Kurdish-held border enclave of Afrin, reports say, raising the risk of clashes with Turkey. It comes a day after Syria’s state news agency said “Popular Forces” would be sent there to counter “the Turkish regime’s attack”. Turkish troops and pro-Turkish Syrian rebels have been fighting Kurdish militia in Afrin for the past month. Turkey ...

Chiengi Member of Parliament Given Katuta has lamented that no single health post out of the thirteen earmarked to be constructed in Chiengi under the 650 health posts to be constructed countrywide has been done. Ms Katuta tells QTV News that the only progress made is the construction of the slabs. She says the people of Chiengi lack access to ...