The Zambia Centre for Interparty Dialogue (ZCID) has implored the Zambia Police to be impartial in executing their duties with regards maintaining law and order in the nation. ZCID Executive Director Doreen Kabwe is saddened with reports of political violence in some parts of the country ahead of tomorrow’s by-elections. Mrs. Kabwe has also called on political party leaders to ...

Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) President Jervis Zimba has commended government for placing provinces that were under the Farmer Input Support Program (FISP) electronic voucher system on the direct input supply modality. Mr. Zimba notes with satisfaction that the cancelation of the electronic voucher system for Lusaka, Western and Southern provinces. Speaking in a phone interview, Mr. Zimba says there ...

Opposition Patriotic Front Kabushi Constituency Member of Parliament Bowman Lusambo has sued a Lusaka resident Mercy Matongo in the Lusaka high court for alleging that she was in a relationship with him and fathered three children.  In his statement of claim filed before the court, Mr. Lusambo states that Matongo on the 28th of September, 2021 featured on Prime TV ...

The opposition Democratic Party (DP) Central Committee has backed Harry Kalaba as party president. Addressing a media briefing at the party’s secretariat following an emergency central committee meeting prompted by the purported ouster of Mr Kalaba as party leader by three senior party officials, party national secretary general Jewis Chabi says Mr. Kalaba is the legitimate party president as he ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested former Southern Province Permanent Secretary Sibanze Simuchoba and 13 other officials at the Provincial Administration for Willful Failure to Follow Procedure and Fraudulent False Accounting involving over K623, 000 contrary to the Laws of Zambia. In a statement obtained by Q-news, ACC Corporate Affairs officer Jonathan Siame says Mr Simuchoba, 66, of House No. 19 ...

Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane has announced that the 2022 national budget will be presented to Parliament on Friday,29th October,2021. Dr Musokotwane made the announcement in Lusaka today during a wrap-up budget consultative meeting with various stakeholders. The Minister told the meeting that the new dawn administration has set poverty reduction, employment creation, and creation of a conducive environment for investment ...

Action aid youth hub and global platform Zambia environmental activist Inonge Sakala has called on the ministry of green economy and environment to enter into a memorandum of understanding with various youths dealing in recycling. Ms. Sakala tells Q-News that with the establishment of the ministry of green economy and environment, youths with small start-ups in recycling are hopeful of ...

The Rural Electrification Authority (REA) has completed the construction of the Luano grid extension project in Central province. The project, which involved the construction of 65.56 kilometres of 33 kilovolts overhead power line, will supply electricity to public institutions such as the district administration office, civic centre, Kampelembe health center, Nkulumashiba and Old Mkushi primary schools, as well as chief ...

The Southern African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) has described as unfortunate and regrettable reported acts of political violence against members of the opposition Socialist Party and Patriotic Front by alleged ruling United Party for National Development(UPND) cadres in Kaumbwe constituency of Petauke district in Eastern Province. In a statement made available to QTV News, SACCORD Executive ...

The Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) has implored the new dawn government not to take the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) signed with a number of lenders as a typical debt service holiday. CTPD Researcher Public Finance Wakumelo Mataa explains that the DSSI is not forgiveness of debt or anything similar, but merely a holiday in the repayment ...