Sierra Leone’s opposition candidate, Julius Maada Bio, has rushed to take his presidential oath in a hotel after winning the run-off election. Mr Maada Bio is a former military ruler who briefly ruled the country in 1996. He narrowly beat ruling party candidate Samura Kamara, who has alleged irregularities and says he will challenge the outcome in court. Mr Maada ...

An Indian court has sentenced Bollywood superstar Salman Khan to five years in jail for poaching rare antelope back in 1998. The court in Jodhpur also fined him 10,000 rupees ($154; £109) for the crime. He has since been taken to jail. Khan killed the two blackbucks, a protected species, in the western state of Rajasthan while shooting a film. ...

Barcelona capitalised on two disastrous own goals by AS Roma to thrash the Italian side 4-1 at the Nou Camp on Wednesday and take a huge step towards reaching the Champions League semifinals for the first time in three years. Roma’s captain Daniele De Rossi hit an unstoppable shot into his own net to break the deadlock in the 38th ...

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be imprisoned while he appeals his corruption conviction, the country’s Supreme Court has ruled. He is facing 12 years in jail on charges of accepting a bribe but had asked to remain free during his appeal. Lula claims the charges are politically motivated, and designed to prevent him from running in ...

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) says government through the Ministry of Justice should consider taking to Parliament the amendment of the Public Order Act in the next sitting which resumes in June. Minister of Justice Given Lubinda has indicated that the Government will facilitate the amendment and enactment of the amended Public Order Act by the end of 2018. ...

Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya says his ministry is on course in completely combating the outbreak of cholera which broke out in October last year. Dr Chilufya SAYS cholera cases have continued recording a downward trend with 10 or FEWER CASES recorded weekly. He has explained that the ministry has not relented in enhancing the preventive measures that it put in ...

Senior Citizen Dante Saunders has expressed concern over the decision of the Constitutional Court to tolerate a third appeal in the matter of the 96 Ministers who remained in office after the dissolution of Parliament. PF Secretary General Davies Mwila this week made an application to the Constitutional Court asking the court to set aside or reverse its ruling that ...

Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) has noted the urgent need to amend a number of laws and policies in order to strengthen the country’s resource management systems. The organization has also noted the need to harmonize policies that may not speak to each other in the promotion of financial management system in public offices. TIZ Executive Director Wesley Chibamba tells QTV ...

President Edgar Lungu says the impending dialogue process should be driven by the Zambia Center for Interparty Dialogue (ZCID) as the umpire and not external players who can only participate as observers. President Lungu notes that there is nothing wrong for outside players to participate, but only as observers and not as adjudicators because Zambia is capable of addressing its ...