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Civil rights activist Brebner Changala has expressed concern with the manner the media is reporting on the current economic crisis the country is facing. Mr. Changala has observed that the media is making it look as if Zambia is the only country affected by the falling global commodity prices. In an interview with Qfm News, Mr. Changala has advised that ...

Government has been advised to come up with robust fiscal measures in 2016 in an effort to bridge the growing budget deficit. Bweengwa Member of Parliament Highvie Hamududu is urging government to devise measures that will particularly address the issue of fiscal indiscipline in the public service. Mr. Hamududu is concerned that currently there are many controlling officers who are ...

Government has been challenged to state clearly how it intends to diversify the economy from being copper dependent to agriculture with the meagre allocation to the sector in the 2016 National Budget. Some of opposition political parties have told QFM News it is not possible to go the agriculture way when government has only allocated 7 percent of the 2016 ...

The Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) has advised people living with HIV/AIDS against forgoing treatment in preference to faith healing. EFZ Executive Director Rev Pukuta Mwanza says people living with HIV/AID who are on treatment should continue with their treatment so that they can live normal lives and live longer. Reverend Mwanza has also appealed to Zambians against stigmatizing and ...

The opposition National Restoration Party (NAREP) has rubbished remarks by its former national secretary Jevan Kamanga likening it to an NGO. Narep Lusaka province information and publicity secretary Brian Mpundu says Reverend Kamanga not to longer ago failed to run the party and did not form any structures when he served as national secretary and should be the last person ...

The ruling Patriotic Front (PF) in Monze District has called on political players in the country not to drag traditional leaders into politics. PF Monze District Chairman Gilbert Mwila says suggestions that some chiefs are bitter with the ruling party in Monze District are misleading. Mr Mwila says the ruling party is enjoying cordial relations with chiefs in the district. ...

Mobile communication service in a number of chiefdoms in the country has been disrupted following a major fault on the orbital satellite Amos-5 which services the 204 communication towers in chiefdoms around the country. Communication and Transport Minister Kapembwa Simbao has told Parliament in a ministerial statement today that SpaceCom which operates the satellite has informed government through ZICTA that ...

UPND vice President for Administration Geoffrey Mwamba has dismissed as misplaced claims by the ruling PF that Zambia will be up in flames if the UPND is given the opportunity to govern. In an interview with Qfm News, Mr. Mwamba has wondered how his party can set the country on fire when its objective is to salvage the country from ...

Patriotic Front national youth League advocates have welcomed the appointment of Local Government and Housing Minister Steven Kampyongo as PF National youth Chairperson by President Edgar Lungu. PF national youth league advocates representative Mubanga Mundashi says President Lungu has once again demonstrated he means business when he says he desires to work with the youth as evidence by the appointment ...

The Zambian Voice has charged that the country will have a Patriotic Front driven constitution instead of a people driven constitution. Executive Director Chilufya Tayali says the current constitution making process has been taken away from the Zambian people by the mere fact that the draft constitution is now before Parliament. Mr. Tayali says the ruling PF now has the ...