Water Aid Zambia has noted with concern that inadequate water sanitation and hygiene services and practices at health care facilities pose a risk of health acquired infections to both health care providers and patients. It is against this background that Water Aid Zambia has launched a 3 Million United States dollars improving water sanitation and hygiene in health care facilities ...

Civil society organizations have protested outside parliament demanding answers from government over what they have termed as perpetual mismanagement of public resources. The protestors whose protest was given the go ahead by the minister of home affairs on appeal after being initially denied permission by the police have demanded for transparency from government in the manner it addresses public affairs. ...

Government has proposed to spend K86.8 billion or 28.9 percent of GDP in 2019, Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe has disclosed his budget speech. Presenting the proposed 2019 national budget to parliament which represents a percentage increase of 21% on the 2018 budget of k71.6 billion, Mrs. Mwanakatwe says of the total budget, domestic revenues account for 64.6 percent, while 2.2 ...

The Zambia Railways Limited (ZRL) has increased its revenue by 25 percent following the introduction of the Transport Statutory Instrument on heavy and bulk cargo. ZRL board chairperson Lubinda Linyama says his company has also increased the haulage tonnage by 25 percent. Mr. Linyama states that the ZRL’s goal is to reach a target tonnage of 800, 000 and revenue ...

Commuters Rights Association of Zambia (CRAZ) President, Aaron Kamuti is hopeful that government will consider prioritizing the issue of job creation in the 2019 national budget. Mr. Kamuti tells QTV News that it is expected that the 2019 National Budget will clearly state the policies and resources that will be channeled towards increased job creation. He says his interactions with ...

The African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC) annual plenary during which Zambia was to assume the Presidency of the Commission has been deferred from September to December 2018. Civil aviation authority (CAA) Director General Gabriel Lesa says the AFCAC plenary will now be held from 1st to 5th December. Mr. Lesa has however, told QTV News that the venue of the ...

Former Transport and Communications Minister William Harrington lawmakers to enact a law which will make it mandatory for the state to publish reports and recommendations of commissions of inquiry. Reacting to the extension of the mandate of the commission of inquiry on voting patterns and electoral violence by President Edgar Lungu, Mr. Harrington says the Zambian taxpayer must not fund ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has urged its party functionaries in Lusaka to join the peaceful demonstration at parliament today by the civil society over government’s continued borrowing. NDC Secretary General Mwenya Musenge says the intention by well meaning Civil Society groupings such as the NGOCC to speak out on the reckless borrowing by the pf government is an act ...

Maurizio Sarri may only be six league games into his Chelsea tenure – and faces his biggest challenge yet when his side meet leaders Liverpool on Saturday – but he has already achieved a level of harmony at Stamford Bridge that was clearly lacking last season. From putting treats on the menu to embracing players’ opinions and transforming their style ...

A passenger aircraft has come down in a lagoon off Chuuk International Airport in Micronesia after it overshot the runway, say airport officials. Images circulating online showed the Air Niugini plane, from Papua New Guinea, sitting in shallow water just off the coast. None of the 35 passengers and 12 crew onboard flight ANG73 suffered serious injuries. The cause of ...