Countries are being urged to strengthen their carbon-cutting targets by the end of 2022 in a draft agreement published at the COP26 Glasgow climate summit. The document says vulnerable nations must get more help to cope with the deadly impacts of global warming. It also says countries should submit long-term strategies for reaching net-zero by the end of next year. ...

Former Deputy Minister of Transport and Communication Colonel Panji Kaunda says it’s folly for people to misinterpret President Hakainde Hichilema’s statement and drag the name of his father and other former presidents into their debate. Colonel Kaunda who is late first republican President Dr Kenneth Kaunda’s eldest child says people were very quick to misinterpret the phrase made by President ...

Minister of Community Development Doreen Mwamba says more needs to be done to end violence against children. Speaking when she launched the national prevention and response plan on ending violence against children in Lusaka today, Ms Mwamba notes that the rising cases of teenage pregnancies and child marriage, in various parts of the country are an indication that children are ...

Opposition Leadership movement President Richard Silumbe has urged the UPND administration to take keen interest in solving problems the University of Zambia is facing which were left unattended by the previous regime. Speaking to Q-news, Dr. Silumbe says there is need for the new dawn government to address issues such as the payment of lecturers at the University of Zambia ...

Signalytics Zambia Centre for Policy and Strategic Communication has calls on the Zambia Police and the Minister responsible for TEVET institutions to immediately investigate the alleged siphoning of money through a non-existent e-learning system at the ministry of higher education under the PF regime. Communications Director Mwala Kalaluka says the many corruption scandals the PF regime president over is the ...

Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane says government will use the Farm Block Development Program as a vehicle to grow the national economy in the next ten years. The Farm Block Development Program is an initiative meant to facilitate agricultural land and rural development and encourage private sector investment for economic growth. Speaking when he addressed the Indaba Agriculture Policy Research Institute ...