Fifa has banned the president of Ghana’s Football Association (GFA) from football activities for 90 days. Ghana has said it will dissolve its national football association after Kwesi Nyantakyi was filmed apparently accepting a “cash gift”. He was pictured taking $65,000 (£48,000) from an undercover reporter pretending to be a businessman. Mr Nyantakyi is the second most powerful official in ...

Germany midfielder Emre Can will leave Liverpool when his contract expires this summer. Can, 24, moved to Anfield from Bayer Leverkusen in July 2014 for £10m. The Germany player has been linked with a move to Italian champions Juventus. Right-back Jon Flanagan, 25, who spent the end of the 2017-18 season on loan at Championship club Bolton, is also leaving ...

“I actually thought my label would drop me, but they didn’t.” Lily Allen laughs. She laughs a lot. All those acerbic, combative comments you see on her Twitter feed? Imagine them with an almighty guffaw at the end – because that’s probably how they were written. Not that she’s one to shy away from a fight. Her most recent Twitter ...

US celebrity chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain has been found dead in his hotel room, aged 61, of an apparent suicide. The culinary bad boy was near Strasbourg, France, working on a shoot for his series, Parts Unknown, on CNN. “It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain,” the cable ...

US President Donald Trump says he wants Russia to be part of the G7 group of key industrialised nations. Russia was expelled in 2014 following its annexation of Crimea, but Mr Trump said he wanted the country readmitted. The build-up to the meeting has seen major disagreements between the US president and other nations over his imposition of trade tariffs. ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has overturned the conviction for war crimes and crimes against humanity of former Democratic Republic of Congo Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba. Bemba was found guilty in 2016 of crimes committed in the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) in 2002-2003. He was accused of failing to stop his rebels from killing and raping people. But a judge ...

Kenya’s Ambassador to Zambia Sophy Kombe says Kenya has ratified the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) agreement. The Tripartite Free Trade Agreement which is anchored on three pillars namely market integration, industrial development and infrastructure development, brings together three regional economic communities namely COMESA, the East Africa Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Speaking when she presented AFCTA ...

The Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) has applauded the commitment exhibited by President Edgar Lungu towards the protection of the environment. In a statement issued to Q-News, ZEMA Director General John Msimuko notes with gratitude the motivating speech delivered by the President at the official opening of the 2018 Copperbelt Mining, Agricultural, Industrial, Networking and Enterprise (CAMINEX) Expo in Kitwe. ...

Police in Lusaka have charged five suspects among them four Burundi and one Congolese nationals in connection with the seized sugar suspected to be counterfeit product following an operation conducted on 4th and 5th June, 2018 in Lusaka’s Zanimuone area and City market. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo has named the suspects as Claudin Uwambabazi aged 36, Habakubaho Bagonza aged 42, ...

National Guidance and Religious Affairs Minister, Reverend Godfridah Sumaili says the current rate at which youths are abusing drugs and alcohol, families are breaking down and girls are falling pregnant while at school is alarming. Reverend Sumaili says there is need for concerted efforts from various stakeholders in restoring morality levels amongst youths in the country especially that Zambia is ...