Civil Society Organizations Decentralization Alliance Network (CSO DAN) says the position of District Commissioner should be abolished. National Coordinator George Chimembe says his organization recently made submissions to the review of the national decentralization policy calling for the policy to clearly state whose function it is to coordinate development programs in a District. Mr Chimembe says he supports the call ...

Prisons Care and Counseling Association (PRISCCA) Executive Director Dr Godfrey Malembeka has encouraged ex-convicts who were recently pardoned to form or join cooperatives that will help them benefit from the constituency development funds-CDF. Speaking to Q-news, Dr. Malembeka notes with sadness that re-integration into society and getting by with daily life for most ex-convicts is difficult as they barely find ...

Minister of youth, sport and arts, Elvis Nkandu has charged that the expiration of the 2015 to 2021 youth empowerment strategy should not be a deterrent to youths from accessing the nine youth empowerment programs the ministry has rolled out. Mr. Nkandu has since challenged youths not to use the expiry of the youth empowerment strategy as a reason why ...

Social Scientist Innocent Kolala has observed that there is currently no opposition political party that is offering genuine checks and balances to the ruling government. Mr. Kolala tells QTV news that what the country is witnessing is rhetoric kind of checks and balances. He says there is too much politicking on part of the opposition political parties. Mr. Kolala says ...

The Paralegal Alliance Network (PAN), a network of organizations and individuals promoting access to justice and human rights, is disturbed by what it has termed as degrading and inhumane treatment of youths alleged to have defamed the head of state by a group of soldiers. The network has also condemned in the strongest terms possible the uncouth utterances by the ...

Some Lusaka residents have described the ongoing 2022 Africa Public Service Day Road Show and Exhibition as a good initiative for promoting efficient public service delivery. In Lusaka, the exhibition is taking place at the East Park Mall where various public service institutions are showcasing their services to members of the public. Emmanuel Sakala, a student from the University of ...

Ruling United Party for National Development (UPND) Namwala Member of Parliament Moono Mapani says President Hakainde Hichilema’s foreign trips are necessary because the country’s international relations were bad under the previous regime. Mr. Mapani has recalled how the previous PF government victimized the US Ambassador Daniel Foote who’s recalled they forced.  He tells QTV news in an interview that President ...

Unemployed Doctors say they will stage a peaceful protest to the Ministry of Health if names of successful candidates in the ongoing recruitment progress of health workers are not published by Friday, 24th June, 2022. Unemployed Doctors Chairperson Dr Wallace Ndumba says they will march to the ministry of health to seek answers over the prolonged delay in publishing the ...

Tourism Minister Rodney Sikumba says the New Dawn Government has not cancelled any legally signed hunting concession agreement with any outfitter. In a ministerial statement following a point of order raised by Lumezi Member of Parliament Munir Zulu who wanted to find out the status of the purported cancelled hunting concessions by government, Mr Sikumba says 17th August, 2021 was ...

President Hakainde Hichilema has thanked the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for selecting Zambia for the implementation of the second compact of the programme, aimed at improving the lives of the people. And President Hichilema has promised the visiting MCC delegation that the government will address challenges that were faced by the Lusaka Water Supply and Sanitation Company in the implementation ...