The Annual Inflation for May, 2022 has decreased to 10.2 percent from 11.5 percent recorded in April, 2022. This means that on average, prices of goods and services increased by 10.2 percent between May 2021 and May 2022.  Giving the monthly inflation bulletin for may 2022, ZAMSTATS Interim Statistician General Mulenga Musepa has attributed the slowdown in annual inflation to price movements ...

Government through the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has extended the covid-19 vaccination campaign for five more days to end on Monday 30th may 2022. Announcing the development at a press briefing Acting Health Minister, Charles Milupi says the extension has been necessitated by the overwhelming response throughout the country.  Mr. Milupi has further ...

The Nation Union of Small-Scale Farmers in Zambia is concerned that some local farmers are supplying poor quality of onion to chain stores because they lack adequate knowledge on how to cultivate good quality onions. NUSFAZ programs officer Ebony Lolozhi tells Q news that the biggest challenge that farmers in the country have continued to face is lack of proper ...

Economist Trevor Hambayi has observed that the bank of Zambia’s target of a single digit inflation rate is slowly being realized. Mr. Hambayi tells Q -news in a telephone interview that this is evidenced by the central bank’s decision to maintain the monetary policy rate at 9 percent. He explains that government’s continued borrowing of money from the capital market ...

The World Health Organization has called on Zambians to keep a close watch on the outbreak of the Monkey pox. Monkey pox is a rare viral infection that can spread from person to person, and is caused by a virus. WHO country representative, Nathan Batyaita says though there is no cause for alarm, there is need for the citizenry to ...

Political Activist Dante Saundershas disagreed with President Hakainde Hichilema’s request to parliament to consider removing death penalty from the laws of Zambia. Mr. Saunders says plunderers of national resources should be the ones to face death penalty because their crimes deprive Zambians of essential drugs in health facilities, quality education, provision of clean water and good sanitation which those plundered resources ...

THE Prisons Care and Counseling Association (PRISCA) has described as generous and unprecedented, the pardoning of over 2,000 prisoners by President Hakainde Hichilema. President HAKAINDE HICHILEMA has pardoned 2,045 inmates to mark this year’s Africa Freedom Day WHICH FALLS TODAY, of which 1,969 are ordinary inmates and 33 old aged. PRISCA executive director, Godfrey Malembeka says the gesture is unprecedented ...

Energy Expert Johnston Chikwanda predicted a moderate upwards adjustment in fuel pump prices when the Energy Regulation Board reviews prices this month. Mr Chikwanda notes that this is considering that currently, the price of crude oil on the international market has moderately gone up to 113 dollars a barrel compared to an average of 103 dollars. He says this is ...

Infrastructure, HOUSING and Urban Development Minister, Charles Milupi says government will by the end of July this year close the deal for commencement of works on the Lusaka-Ndola dual carriageway. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Q-News, Mr. Milupi has acknowledged that most trunk roads in the country such as the Lusaka-Copperbelt and the Great North road from Serenje going ...

Zambia Climate Change Network (ZCCN) Project Development Officer, Ali Kaunda has attributed the reduction in Zambia’s life expectancy currently at less than 55-years to the consumption of non-organic foods. Mr. Kaunda says consumption of food that is as a result of chemicals in most cases results in human body reactions that even lead to reduction in one’s life span due ...