The Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) in Western province has hailed government for constructing four district hospitals and four new secondary schools in the province. CSPR Provincial Chairperson Kusiyo Mbikusita Lewanika has told Q-News that the facilities have the capacity to improve the provision of education and health services in the province. Mr. Lewanika has however, bemoaned the high ...

Patriotic Front Chililabombwe Member of Parliament Richard Musukwa says government is considering the possibility of turning Kasumbalesa Border into a business trade center. Mr. Musukwa has told Q-news in an interview that government is in a hurry to turn Kasumbalesa into a business trade hub where people around the area will trade in various products. He says Zambians should take ...

Chama district in Muchinga province has again been cut off from the rest of the province following the flooding of Kambhemba River leaving several people and motorists stranded on both sides. The flooding of Kambhemba River followed heavy rains the district experienced in the last 48 hours. Both Muchinga Permanent Secretary Jobbicks Kalumba and Chama District Council Chairman Gibby Kabandama ...

The Zambia Police Service has disclosed that 396 people died in 7,247 road traffic accidents recorded in the first three months of 2018. The 7,247 accidents recorded in the first quarter of 2018 represent an increase of 179 accidents compared to 7,068 road traffic accidents recorded during the same period in 2017. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo says of the total ...

The head of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s football association has been taken into custody as part of a probe into embezzlement, an investigating magistrate said on Wednesday. FECOFA president Constant Omari has been held along with sports ministry secretary general Barthelemy Okito and two FECOFA vice presidents — Roger Bondembe and Theobad Binamungu — since Tuesday evening, the magistrate ...

(AllHipHop News) DJ Khaled is looking to trademark his 17-month-old son Asahd’s name for use on a wide variety of products. The hip-hop star, who plans to call his forthcoming album Father of Asahd, filed documents with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officials earlier this month, looking to register his offspring’s name as a brand. Khaled has applied to trademark ...

(AllHipHop News) Kanye West saved a recent episode of U.S. game show “Celebrity Family Feud” when he offered to take on his wife and in-laws after Paris Hilton and her clan pulled out. The popular show’s host Steve Harvey admits bosses were at a loss when the Hiltons opted out of the clash of reality TV families, but rapper Kanye ...

Playmaker Kevin De Bruyne and his Manchester City team-mates made up almost half of the Professional Footballers’ Association’s Premier League team of the year revealed on Wednesday. Right-back Kyle Walker, centre-back Nicolas Otamendi, midfielder David Silva and striker Sergio Aguero were also named in the XI. Tottenham were the only other team to have more than one representative, boasting three ...

CIA director Mike Pompeo forged a “good relationship” with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un when they met last week, US President Donald Trump has tweeted. Confirming media reports of the secret meeting in Pyongyang, Mr Trump said it had gone “very smoothly”. The surprise visit marks the highest-level contact between the United States and North Korea since 2000. Mr Trump ...

Zimbabwe’s government has sacked more than 10,000 nurses who went on strike on Monday, in an apparently hardline attempt to quell labour unrest. Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga said the nurses had refused to return to work after $17m (£12m) was released to increase their pay. He chided them for not going back “in the interest of saving lives”. But the extraordinary ...