United, Prosperous and Peaceful Zambia (UPPZ) Spokesperson Francis Kope has charged that the PF Government has accrued more debt than any other past administrations. Mr. Kope is concerned that Zambia’s foreign and domestic debt will continue to undermine the country’s credit worthiness and compromise its ability to secure new funding. He has told Q-news in an interview that while debt ...

Zambia Religious Council (ZRC) Executive Director Howard Banda has advised political parties to educate their cadres against engaging in violence. Mr. Banda says Zambia needs peace and it should not be deliberately spoiled for the sake of an election. He has told Q-news that it is an assault to the Christian declaration when political parties engage in political violence. Mr. ...

The Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) finds the K65 per 50kg Market price offered by the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) absurd and horrendously low. And the union says it did not meet the FRA to discuss maize prices after last years’ efforts yielded a blank because FRA told the Union it was Government that set the K60/50KG with no consultation ...

Israel says it has carried out an evacuation of members of Syria’s White Helmets civil defence group from a war zone in south-western Syria. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they had acted on a request from the US and European nations. Some 800 people were evacuated to Jordan via the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights overnight, Israeli media say. The White ...

Economic and Equity Party (EEP) Secretary General Winfred Silumbwe says the bringing together of PF and UPND to discuss and  sign violence free commitment document is an exercises in futility as it does not in any way address the root cause of political violence. Mr. Silumbwe says her party is highly doubtful that the violence free agreement signed by the ...

The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has boasted that cases of crop wastage in the country have drastically reduced due to the additional storage facilities that have been put up across the country. FRA Chief Executive Officer Chola Kafwabulula says the industry allows crop wastage of about 4 to 5 percent per season but that the FRA has beaten the standards ...

Brazilian superstar Neymar on Thursday sought to quash speculation about his future, insisting he planned to remain with French giants Paris Saint-Germain. “I’m staying, I’m staying in Paris, I have a contract,” Neymar told reporters at an auction to raise money for his charitable foundation in Sao Paulo. Neymar, who became the world’s most expensive footballer last year after moving ...

Brighton signed South Africa star Percy Tau from Mamelodi Sundowns on Friday, with the Premier League club set to send the forward on loan for the coming season. Tau agreed a four-year contract with the Seagulls after emerging as the hottest prospect in South Africa. The 24-year-old striker is the first South African in the English Premier League since Steven ...

Brokeback Mountain was met with so much critical acclaim and commercial success, you would think any actor would have loved to star in it. But in fact, producers struggled to cast any major actors in the film while it was in development. Before the movie went to Ang Lee to direct, another director, Gus Van Sant, had been working on ...

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for racial unity ahead of landmark elections, telling white farmers their lands will not be taken. Former President Robert Mugabe’s government supported the seizure of hundreds of white-owned farms which they saw as unfairly taken by settlers. But Mr Mnangagwa, 75, told a crowd in Harare that the controversial policy was a thing of ...