Residents of Railways, Freedom and Filiot compounds in Monze district have had their homes flooded and submerged in water after a heavy downpour which started last evening and only stopped today around midday. The local authority in the area has attributed the flooding to blocked drainages. Monze district commissioner Mwanza Malambo bemoans that the area has poorly constructed drainages which ...

Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) faction president Mwenya Musenge says the arrests of those who allegedly misappropriated public funds under the patriotic front regime should not be perceived as a persecution. Mr. Musenge who spoke to Q-News says all the investigative wings, namely the anti-corruption commission, drug enforcement commission among others were compromised and their hands were tied under the ...

Operation Young Vote OYV has called on the new dawn administration not to restrict the investigation and prosecution of those involved in corruption to those in the opposition. OYV executive director Guess Nyirenda tells Q-news that investigations and prosecution should also be extended to those currently in government. Mr. Nyirenda states that the new dawn administration should do things differently ...

Ministry of community development and social services director department of social welfare Kennedy Mumba has disclosed that the ministry is in the process of migrating the social cash transfer (SCT) management system from the old system which had duplicates of people sharing identities to the Zambia integration protection management information system (ZIPMIS). Mr. Mumba says the new system is designed ...

Government has been urged to develop a system of providing quarterly funding to grant aided schools so that the quality of education is not compromised with the coming of free education. Christian Coalition Zambia president professor Charles Mwape says the quarterly release of funds to schools will ensure smooth operations as well as the implementation of the free education policy. And ...

Democratic Party (DP) president Harry Kalaba has accused President Hakainde Hichilema of meddling in the affairs of his party through his political advisor Levy Ngoma in an attempt to destabilize the opposition party. Mr. Kalaba made the allegations during a press briefing at the party secretariat in Lusaka today. He says Mr. Ngoma has been having secretly meetings with suspected ...

The Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) has unveiled Croatian national Aljosa Asanovic as new Chipolopolo head coach on a 4-year performance based contract. Prior to his appointment as national team coach, Asanovic was Technical Advisor for the Chipolopolo during the 2022 Qatar Fifa World cup qualifiers. And FAZ General Secretary Adrian Kashala says key among the expectations from the new ...

Health minister Sylvia Masebo says covid-19 and malaria have taken a heavy toll on the health systems besides causing loss of lives. speaking during the covid-19 situation update from Mansa, Luapula province, Ms Masebo says like covid-9, malaria is not only a health problem by a threat to socio-economic development and requires a Multisectorial response. She says malaria and covid-19 ...

The Civil Society Scaling-up Nutrition (CSO-SUN) alliance is concerned that the new dawn administration has allowed the continued export of maize and other related products despite the increasing prices of maize and mealie meal. Alliance country coordinator Mathews Mhuru says at the moment, it is not certain whether the farm produce this year is going to be favorable in view ...

Continental Leadership Research Institute CLRI believes development cannot be realized if the fight against corruption is not robust. CLRI executive director Paul Hakoola says it is time that institutions of governance worked independently especially the investigative wings without any political interference or invisible hand pushing and directing them. Mr Hakoola tells Q-News in an interview that it is also too ...