The Advocacy against Child Abuse and Gender Based Violence has called for stiffer punishment for child abusers in the country. The organization is further calling on the Zambia Police Service to ensure that they thoroughly investigate cases of child abuse saying the dispensation of justice starts from the police station. Advocacy Executive Director Bellion Chola tells QTV News that if ...

ActionAid Zambia has called on government to ensure that it tables fiscal laws before parliament as it resumes its sitting in the coming weeks. ActionAid Zambia Country Director Nalucha Ziba tells QTV Business News that these laws include the amendment of the Public Procurement Act and Budget and Planning Act among other fiscal laws. Ms Ziba says if these are ...

A total of K5.77 billion was released by the Treasury in April 2018 to finance development programmes and Government operations. Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe says out of that amount, K2.14 billion went towards capital and other key developmental programmes, K1.60 billion was released for debt service, K816.6 million for support to grant-aided-institutions, and K2.19 billion for personal emoluments. Ms Mwanakatwe ...

Former Republican President Rupiah Banda has challenged the Commonwealth to clearly come out on their stance to support a Zambian led dialogue process so as to end the debate on who should lead the forth coming political dialogue process. The UPND has continued to insist that the dialogue process should be led by the commonwealth even after it pronounced that ...

The International Diplomatic Spouses Association (IDSA) President in South Africa, Monde Mwamba has outlined this year’s Association’s vision of helping more underprivileged communities in South Africa. Mrs. Mwamba, who is also spouse of Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa, Emmanuel Mwamba, says the Association reaches out to the less privileged and communities in all South Africa to help uplift the ...

Suicide bombers have attacked three churches in Indonesia’s second-largest city Surabaya, killing at least nine people, police say. Around 40 others were injured in the attacks, which occurred within minutes of each other. No group has so far said it carried them out. TV pictures showed debris scattered around the entrance of one church. Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority country, ...

The suspect in a deadly knife attack in central Paris on Saturday evening was born in 1997 in the Russian republic of Chechnya, a judicial source says. The attacker killed a 29-year-old man and wounded four other people in the busy Opéra district before being shot dead by police. The suspect had shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest), witnesses said. ...

Bwana Mkubwa Member of Parliament Dr. Jonas Chanda has reassured residents in his Constituency that the PF government is on course to construct more new tarred roads in the area as evidenced by the just newly constructed Chirundu and Dambo roads in Mushili township, and Magezi and Chipata roads in Ndeke township. Dr Chanda remarks that the newly constructed roads, ...

The Southern Center for Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) has welcomed the directive by President Edgar Lungu to the Minister of Justice Given Lubinda to move the constitution amendment process to September to allow for the dialogue process. Reacting to the directive by the president to have the amendments to the constitution halted so as not to undermine the dialogue ...

The Grain Traders Association of Zambia (GTAZ) says it expects the standard price for maize in this year’s crop marketing season to be above K60 per 50Kg bag. Executive Director Chambuleni Simwinga says this year it will be demand chasing supply of the grain. Mr. Simwinga states that this means that despite the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) being the pace ...