Hunger has hit parts of chief’s Sinadambwe and Simamba areas of siavonga district due to poor rainfall received during the last farming season. Siavonga District Commissioner, Lovemore Kanyama has confirmed the development. Mr Kanyama has however, assured the affected families that government is putting in place measures through the relief food for work programme to assist them. Meanwhile Mr. Kanyama ...

Minister of Finance Margaret Mwanakatwe has revealed that government has paid US$ 545. 02 million towards debt service for three quarters of 2018. And Mrs. Mwanakatwe says the country’s external debt stock as at close of the third quarter was US$9.51 billion from US$9.37 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2018. Briefing the media on the 2018 ...

Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) has started paying the more than US$80 million owed to 400 local and international contractors and suppliers of goods and services. Mines and Minerals Development Minister, Richard Musukwa has told Parliament during the question for oral and answer session that about 256 local suppliers have so far been paid a total amount of about US$7.6 million. ...

Leicester City players will wear shirts with club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha’s name embroidered on them when they play their first home match since the Thai tycoon was killed in a helicopter crash, the Premier League club said. Vichai was one of five killed in the crash near the King Power Stadium after Leicester’s last home league match on October 27. ...

Cristiano Ronaldo could not hide his frustration that despite scoring his first Champions League goal for Juventus the Italian side ‘gifted’ a dramatic late 2-1 victory to Manchester United. Ronaldo struck with a magnificent first-time volley on 65 minutes to leave Juve on course for the knockout phase, but Juan Mata equalised with an 86th-minute free-kick before Leonardo Bonucci turned ...

Whenever an election comes around, there are always celebrities who throw their support behind their favoured candidates and hope their fans will follow their lead at the ballot box. In Tuesday’s US mid-term elections, however, many of the high-profile stars who had publicly supported candidates were left disappointed. So how much is a celebrity endorsement actually worth? Beyonce‘s last-minute backing ...

The White House has suspended the credentials of a CNN’s chief White House correspondent hours after a testy exchange with US President Donald Trump. A White House staffer tried to grab the microphone from CNN’s Jim Acosta at the press conference on Wednesday. But press secretary Sarah Sanders said access was removed because the reporter put “his hands on a ...

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been fired by President Donald Trump. “We thank Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his service, and wish him well!” Mr Trump tweeted on Wednesday. The president had repeatedly criticised his top law enforcement official after he recused himself from the Russia investigation dogging the White House. Mr Trump said Mr Sessions will be temporarily ...

Zambia has in 2018 moved up one point on the ABSA Africa Financial Market (AFM) Index to 8th place from 9th position in 2017. This is out of 20 Countries in the region that are measured by the Index. Presenting the findings of the AFM index ABSA Chief Economist Jeff Gable explained that the index looks at providing a toolkit ...

A total of 166, 418 offenders were captured by speed cameras for exceeding the recommended speed limits on respective road sections as of 18th September this year. Minister of Communication and Transport Brian Mushimba however says there has been a drop in the number of offenders month on month since the project started. Mr. Mushimba has told Parliament in a ...