United Prosperous and Peaceful Zambia (UPPZ) spokesperson Francis Kope has challenged the Zambia Agriculture Research Institute to avail more information to the farmers about the looming El-Niño so that they can begin exploring best ways on how to deal with its effect. Mr. Kope adds that the research institute should also advise farmers which pesticides to use in the event ...

The opposition Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD) says it has every reason to believe that Zambia’s economic status is now rock bottom. ADD President Charles Milupi has also observed that it appears the country has two different economies with one affecting all citizens and the other run by foreign companies. In an interview with Q-News, Mr. Milupi says it ...

Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya says government has pitched research as a fundamental pillar in its quest to attain the universal health coverage by 2021. Dr. Chilufya has since directed that a clinical research center be established at the University Teaching Hospital to spearhead and strengthen research activities in the country. And Dr Chilufya says the country is on course ...

Government has indefinitely closed the Natural Resources Development College (NRDC) following a riot by second year students. The students are said to have been protesting against the college rule that restrict students in the second year who get an E pass from progressing to the third year. A QTV News crew that rushed to the college found students packing their ...

Minister of Agriculture, Michael Katambo says the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) may not meet its maize purchasing target of 500,000 metric tons of maize for strategic reserves. Mr. Katambo was responding to a question from UPND Kalomo Central Member of Parliament Harry Kamboni in Parliamemt, who wanted to know how many metric tons of maize the Food Reserve Agency has purchased ...

President Edgar Lungu has urged investors to ignore what he has termed as irresponsible rumor mongering aimed at impacting negatively on the country’s economy. President Lungu says he is aware that some opposition political parties have come up with bitter attacks to try and derail the country’s economy through negative foreign media reports. Speaking at the launch of the newly ...

Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) General Secretary Fr Emmanuel Chikoya has called on the Church across the country to be proactive models of sustainable and safe environment. Speaking when he met Solwezi CCZ Local Christian Chapters at Saint Alban’s Anglican Church in Solwezi, Fr Chikoya says all Churches affiliated to the Council of Churches in Zambia must pay particular ...

The Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) has observed that the 2019 proposed national budget is not correlating with the seventh national development theme of accelerating development efforts towards the vision 2030 without leaving anyone behind. ZNFU Media and Public Relations Manager, Kelvin Kaleyi says the 2019 national budget has not accommodated farmers in line with the theme for the Seventh ...

The World Food Programme (WFP) says access to adequate and nutritious food remains a challenge for poor households and low-income earners in Zambia. WFP Country Representative Jennifer Bitonde says this reality is reflected in the high proportion of undernourished people and stunted children under the age of five years. Speaking during the zero hunger strategic review meeting which coincides with World ...

Cabinet has approved the culling of Hippos in the Luangwa River and the publication and introduction of three bills in Parliament during the current sitting. In a statement obtained by Q-News, Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya says the bills namely the Statistics bill, 2018, the Border management and trade facilitation bill,2018 and the Constituency development fund bill,2018 were approved during ...