Saudi Arabia has sacked its top military commanders, including the chief of staff, in a series of late-night royal decrees. Saudi King Salman also replaced the heads of the ground forces and air defences. The news was published by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA), but no reason for the sackings was given. They come as the war in Yemen, ...

United Party for National Development (UPND) Sinazongwe Member of Parliament Gift Sialubalo has described the 2017/2018 farmer input distribution exercise through the e-voucher system as a national disaster. And Mr. Sialubalo says the convention method of distributing farming inputs to farmers was more ideal for farmers in his constituency which is rural compared to the electronic voucher system. Mr. Sialubalo ...

The Federation of Free Trade Unions of Zambia (FFTUZ) has called on investigative wings to take keen interest in the issue of the collapse of the central computing system at the ministry of finance. Union President Chingati Msiska says there is need to investigate the matter as this could be the work of saboteurs. He tells Q-News that matter must ...

Gemstones and Allied Workers Union of Zambia President Sifuniso Nyumbu has noted the need for te government to reintroduce windfall tax as a way of ensuring the money investors make especially in the mining sector stays in the country. Windfall taxes are primarily levied on the companies in the targeted industry that have benefited the most from the economic windfall, ...

The Zambia Tax Platform, a consortium of organizations working to promote tax justice has called on government to start revising all tax treaties in order to collect more tax revenue from investments in the country. ZTP Chairperson Lewis Mwape says with the recent revelations by Action Aid that under one treaty alone US$7.4 million was not collected by government through ...

Health Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya has noted the need for local authorities to up their game in the collection of garbage. Dr Chilufya told journalists that it is important for local authorities to continue with the enhanced and effective collection of garbage around the country despite the cholera outbreak seemingly being contained and figures drastically reducing. He has also noted ...

A 27-year-old man of Lusaka’s John Leigh is nursing serious burns in the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) after the pit latrine he was using to answer the call of nature collapsed. UTH Public Relations Officer Natalie Mashikolo has told QTV News that Kingsley Mwape fell into the pit latrine after it collapsed. Ms Mashikolo says the incident happened two days ...

The Japanese Government has announced a contribution of US$1 million to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR’s) 2018 operations in Zambia. Japan’s Ambassador to Zambia, Hidenobu Sobashima, made the announcement when he visited Mayukwayukwa Resettlement Scheme, under the local integration programme, in Western Province’s Kaoma District on Thursday. Ambassador Sobashima praised the Government of Zambia for its outstanding ...

Government has threatened to introduce a Statutory Instrument (SI) to compel mining companies to give 30 percent of their business to local suppliers if they continue to import materials which are locally available. Mines Minister Richard Musukwa says most mining houses are not giving business to local suppliers but have continued to outsource materials which are available locally. Speaking at ...

Jose Mourinho says Zlatan Ibrahimovic has “won the right to choose his future” after acknowledging that the striker is likely to leave Manchester United at the end of the season. Ibrahimovic, 36, is out of contract at Old Trafford at the end of this season and has been heavily linked with a move to MLS club Los Angeles Galaxy. The ...