Chief Bunda Bunda the 10th of the Soli People of Rufunsa district has observed the need to promote girl child education in his chiefdom noting that the girl child is the cornerstone of sustainable development. Speaking when he received a donation of assorted food stuffs from Support for Vulnerable Children and Active Leadership on behalf of about 121 beneficiaries, the traditional ...

THE Health Professions Council of Zambia has ordered the Copperbelt University (CBU) to immediately stop offering two programmes at its school of Medicine for failure to meet set standards in accordance with the Health Professions Act no.24 of 2009 of the laws of Zambia. The HPCZ has withdrawn recognition and approval of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and ...

Vice President Inonge Wina says the current xenophobic attacks targeted at Chinese nationals in Zambia are politically motivated. Mrs. Wina says the xenophobic attacks are a result of the public utterances political leaders are making to incite people against the Chinese. Speaking during the Vice President’s Question Time in Parliament, Mrs. Wina alleged that the intention of this incitement is ...

Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo says it up to the Police to decide whether to summon UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema for questioning for allegedly inciting the recent riot in Kitwe by claiming during a live radio program on Sun FM in Ndola that ZAFFICO had been sold to the Chinese. In a ministerial statement, Mr. Kampyongo has told Parliament ...

Teenage sensation Kylian Mbappe told AFP on Thursday that Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi remain football’s greatest players but that his own World Cup heroics could help crown him as the 2018 Ballon d’Or winner. Mbappe, 19, helped France to World Cup victory in Russia as his four goals included one in the 4-2 final victory over Croatia as he ...

Arsenal booked a place in the Europa League knockout stage and extended their unbeaten run to 15 matches despite a 0-0 draw with Sporting Lisbon on Thursday, while Olivier Giroud’s first goal of the season sent Chelsea through. Unai Emery’s Gunners were the better side for long periods at the Emirates against a team who have already had three different ...

The Satanic Temple is suing the makers of TV series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina for $50 million (£38m) over a statue. Netflix and Warner Bros allegedly copied the group’s statue of the goat deity Baphomet in the programme. Both production companies have declined to comment on the law suit. Satanic Temple does not worship Satan, but instead seeks “to ...

Police in Ethiopia say they have discovered a mass grave with 200 bodies near the border between the Somali and Oromia regions of the country. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced over the past year by violence there. Local media reported that the grave was found during a probe into alleged atrocities committed by the former president of ...

Illegal migrants entering through the southern US border will no longer be eligible for asylum under a new rule, the Trump administration has said. Announced by the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, the ruling would stop asylum for those who breach any presidential restriction on entry. The president can stop migration in the “national interest”, a statement said. Immigration ...

Plan International Zambia Country Director, Samuel Musyoki has noted with concern that there are still levels of discrimination against girls that have been readmitted in school under the Re-entry policy. Mr. Musyoki has therefore noted the need to engage the communities to make them understand the importance of the re-entry policy in promoting girl childhood education. He has told QTV ...