The University Teaching Hospital has successfully conducted its first ever kidney transplant surgery. Announcing the development, Health minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya said a team of medics and surgeons from India and Zambia successfully conducted the four hour surgery on Wednesday coinciding with Zambia’s 54th Independence anniversary. The minister has announced that the team was led by a lead Zambian surgeon ...

The most famous football fixture in the world: El Clasico. For the past 10 years, it has been a personal playground for two larger-than-life global icons. But neither of them will be playing on Sunday afternoon when Barcelona and Real Madrid lock horns at the Nou Camp. Cristiano Ronaldo, of course, has departed for Juventus after a nine-year stay in ...

Modern Family star Sofia Vergara is the best-paid actor on US TV, earning $16m (£12.4m) more than her nearest rival, according to Forbes magazine. Vergara earned $42.5m (£33m) in 2017-18, Forbes said – far ahead of the top-earning man, The Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons, who is on $26.5m (£20.5m). Overall, the top 10 men still earned more than the ...

Ethiopian members of parliament have elected Sahle-Work Zewde as the country’s first female president. Ms Sahle-Work is an experienced diplomat who has now become Africa’s only female head of state. Her election to the ceremonial position comes a week after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appointed a cabinet with half the posts taken up by women. After being sworn in, President ...

Zamtel in partnership with the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has announced the launch of a mobile tax payment system using Zamtel Kwacha. The move will see Zamtel customers remit all their domestic taxes such as Turnover Tax, Base Tax, Income Tax, VAT, Withholding Tax and Pay As You Earn via the Zamtel Kwacha platform. Other tax types covered under this ...

Fisheries and Livestock Minister, Kampamba Chewe says Zambia is producing in excess of 500 metric tons of honey per year. Mrs. Chewe says her Ministry is therefore aggressively expanding market access for the honey. She says while farmers are producing enough honey, they have not had maximum access to quality markets. Mrs. Chewe states that market penetration will have a ...

Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry, Christopher Yaluma says his ministry is targeting to engage more than 40 companies to be part of the Zambian delegation that will participate in the Intra African Trade Fair (IAFT) to be held from 11th to 17th December in Cairo, Egypt. In a speech read on his behalf by Ministry of Commerce Economics Director ...

The Ministry of Gender says it is in the process of holding consultations with the general public with regards the revision of the marriage Act. Minister of Gender Elizabeth Phiri has told journalists that this is an effort to make it effective in the fight against early marriages and defilement. Mrs. Phiri says government wants to ensure that the girl ...

Information and Broadcasting Services Minister Dora Siliya has clarified that ZNBC has not merged with TopStar contrary assertions. Ms Siliya explains that the conditional authorization to the proposed merger of ZNBC and Star times granted by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) is merely a merger of interests in a joint venture and not of two independent institutions. In ...

Audio has emerged of late rapper XXXTentacion apparently admitting assaulting his ex-girlfriend and stabbing nine people. The recording was made in secret and is believed to date from 2016, when he was accused of aggravated battery of a pregnant woman. The Miami-Dade County state attorney’s office said he “makes admissions to multiple criminal acts” in the audio. The 20-year-old was ...