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The ruling Patriotic Front (PF) on the Copperbelt is confident of retaining all of its 20 parliamentary seats during next year’s general election. PF Kitwe District Spokesperson Christopher Kang’ombe has told QFM News via telephone that the target for 2016 is to capture all the 22 parliamentary seats in the province. Mr. Kang’ombe says the opposition UPND and FDD are ...

Former Finance Minister Katele Kalumba is concerned that government is not improving instruments necessary to access finance for the Agriculture sector. Dr. Katele says this is despite funds being available which some funding agencies are sitting on. He suspects that people are failing to access these monies to invest in Agriculture because of the bureaucracy at the Ministry of Agriculture ...

Opposition United Liberal Party (ULP) President Sakwiba Sikota says it is logically not possible for the country hold early elections in 2016. Mr. Sikota has since described the idea of having early elections as mere excitement over something that is likely not to happen. he says the programme the Electoral Commission of Zambia has embarked on of updating the voters ...

The Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) says the change in the Police hierarchy is not enough to restore professionalism in the Police service. FDD Spokesperson Antonio Mwanza says what the people want is the change in the operation system of the Police. Mr. Mwanza says merely changing individuals at the top does not change anything in the manner the ...

Government owed mining companies K5.25 billion in VAT refunds as at 8th December, 2015. Finance Deputy Minister Christopher Mvunga has told Parliament in response to a question by Mazabuka Member of Parliament that among the mining companies owed is Kansanshi Mine plc which is owed K1.89 billion, KCM which is owed K1.24 billion and Mopani Copper Mines K1.69 billion. Mr. ...

Parliament has approved K14.9 billion in supplementary estimates covering the financial year 2015. The supplementary estimates were approved after 107 Members of Parliament voted in favour against 40 who voted against the estimates with one member abstaining. Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda who presented the supplementary estimates told Parliament that there have been significant movements in some of the fundamental macroeconomic ...

The Electoral Commission of Zambia has as at 3rd December, 2015 registered one million, four hundred and twenty four thousand, nine hundred and eighteen (1,424,918) new voters. ECZ Public Relations Officer Raphael Phiri in a statement made available to QFM News says the commission has during the same period updated particulars of 1,350,012 voters. Lusaka and Southern provinces have recorded ...

Japan has offered to help Zambia overcome the current electricity deficit by investing in research to ascertain which alternative sources of energy it would invest in. This was discussed during a meeting at State House today between President Edgar Lungu and the visiting Japanese Prime Minister’s Special Envoy, which touched on various issues including the current power deficit, economic development, ...

Six (6) South Africans and one (1) Zimbabwean arrested by the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) on October 9, 2015, for attempting to smuggle sables to South Africa have by convicted by the Monze Magistrate Court. The six all adult males, namely: Francoise Petrus Grobler, 24, a wildlife relocator, Stephanus Potgieter, 56, a commercial farmer, Pieter Schalk Glrobler, 32, a wildlife ...

Government says the challenges the country is currently facing especially in the energy sector present an opportunity for the nation to address the structural challenges and binding constraints to growth. In a speech read on her behalf by Secretary to the Cabinet Rowland Msiska at the launch of the World Bank’s sixth Zambia economic brief this morning, Vice President Inonge ...