Mohamed Salah’s goalscoring exploits this season are having a similarly positive impact at Liverpool to that of Luis Suarez had when the Uruguayan was at Anfield, according to club captain Jordan Henderson. Manager Juergen Klopp said Salah was close to the same level as Barcelona’s Lionel Messi after the Egyptian scored four goals in Saturday’s 5-0 league win over Watford, ...

Minister of Tourism and Arts Charles Banda says wildlife conservation efforts need to be stepped up for posterity. He says there is need to do more conservation, coupled with aggressive marketing to achieve the tourism dream of government. Mr. Banda says government could not achieve everything on itself, hence the need for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) that can bring on board ...

Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR) Executive Director Dr. Pamela Kabaso has observed that it is evident that the borrowing space in African countries is shrinking rapidly. Dr Kabaso said this in Lusaka when ZIPAR hosted a policy consultative meeting with a delegation from China who are in the country to collect recommendations from Zambia for the inclusion ...

The reopening of Kwame Nkrumah University in Kabwe has been moved from April to August 2018. This is in order to allow for the recruitment of more lecturers and to sort out all the audit queries which the institution is currently undertaking. Kwame Nkrumah University Vice Chancellor Hellicy Ngambi, who is also Mulungushi University Vice Chancellor, announced this today during ...

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has released the names of hundreds of companies and individuals who failed to return $827m (£590m) illegally stashed abroad despite an amnesty. After taking office last year Mr Mnangagwa gave individuals and companies 90 days to give up the funds. He said on Monday it had resulted in $591m being returned, less than half the funds ...

Vladimir Putin has said he is open to “constructive” dialogue with other states after being re-elected president of Russia with an increased majority. “But of course that doesn’t depend on us alone,” he added. “Just as in love, both sides must show an interest or there will be no love.” Saying there would be no “arms race”, he promised to ...