ZAMBIA NEWS

The Zambia Centre for Interparty Dialogue (ZCID) will from March 30th to March 31st 2016 hold a national democracy stakeholders summit. ZCID board Chairperson Captain Walusiku Lyambela has told a media briefing that the aim of summit is to facilitate inter sectorial dialogue on politics and development in Zambia, and to solicit for creative, innovative and constructive ideas on strengthening ...

Former Commerce Minister Felix Mutati has charged that the 2016 national budget has been rendered unworkable. Mr. Mutati has told QFM News that this is considering the burden the government is carrying to service fuel subsidies and electricity importation in view of the power deficit facing the country. He says this means that all what the Country has planned for ...

The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) says candidates with Diploma and Degree qualifications who do not have Grade 12 certificates will be disqualified from contesting the August 11 elections. ECZ acting Chairperson Justice Christopher Mushabati has told a media luncheon in Lusaka today that all candidates in all categories must possess a minimum of Grade 12 or General certificate of ...

A  fuel shortage has persisted in Lusaka with long queues of motorists forming at filling stations with the commodity. A random check this morning by a QFM news crew found that fuel had run out at a number of filling stations, while those with the commodity had attracted long queues of motorists. Sources have told QFM that some of the ...

Patriotic Front Deputy Secretary General Mumbi Phiri says the ruling party is assured of victory in the August elections based on the infrastructure development it has delivered in the five years of being in power. Ms. Phiri says Zambians will vote for the PF because they have seen what the party has done during the time it has been in ...

Justice Deputy Minister Keith Mukata has resigned from Government to join the opposition UPND. Mr. Mukata who is MMD Chilanga Member of Parliament says he tendered his letter of resignation to State House this morning. Speaking at a media briefing where he was welcomed to the UPND by party President Hakainde Hichilema today, Mr. Mukata says his resignation has been ...

ZAMBEEF is to incorporate 5,000 out-grower farmers around its US $40 million Zampalm Estates in Chief Kopa’s chiefdom and another 8,000 within Mpika district to provide the company with palms for the production of edible oil and other by-products. And President Edgar Lungu says Government will support Zambeef’s pioneering Zampalm plantation in order to ensure the flagship palm oil project ...

The opposition UPND says Zambia needs a leadership and a government that will protect women’s rights as human rights. The UPND says her party is concerned that President Edgar Lungu has allegedly failed to be action-oriented in curtailing the spiraling violence that is being witnessed in the country. UPND National Women’s Chairperson Namakau Kabwiku notes that this is despite President ...

All public service workers who have applied to contest for political office in the August 11th general elections have been directed to immediately disengage from the Civil Service. The State House has made the announcement in a statement made available to Qfm News by the President’s Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda. And Mr. Chanda has explained ...

Government has reassured the nation that there will no further jobs losses in the mines. Mines Minister Christopher Yaluma says government is doing with everything possible to ensure that jobs in the mines remain secured. Mr. Yaluma has disclosed that in doing this government is engaging various stakeholders that include the Zambia Chamber of Mines. He notes that government is ...