Dame June Whitfield – celebrated for her comic roles in BBC sitcom Terry and June and cult favourite Absolutely Fabulous – has died aged 93. The London-born actress was a regular fixture on TV and radio for six decades, starring in Carry On films, Hancock’s Half Hour, and even Friends. At 89, she appeared in EastEnders as Sister Ruth, a ...

Polls have opened in Africa’s second largest country in an election delayed for more than two years. Close to 40m people are eligible to vote in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where President Joseph Kabila – in power since 2001 – is standing down. But the run-up has been hit by violence and controversy over the decision to exclude almost ...

Bangladesh is voting in a general election, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeking her third consecutive term in office. Security forces are on high alert, with some 600,000 security personnel deployed across the nation. More than 100m people are eligible to vote. More than a dozen people have been killed in clashes between supporters of rival political parties. Ms Hasina ...

The International Plan Zambia has bemoaned the upsurge in teen pregnancies in africa. International Plan Zambia Regional Programme on ending child marriage in East and Southern Africa, Lazarous Mwale says consented efforts must be adopted to address the factors that lead to the pregnancies not only in Zambia but in africa as a whole. Mr. Mwale has noted the need ...

National Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQEZ) has challenged the teaching service commission to release the list for the recently recruited teachers. Early this month about 2,009 teachers have been selected for deployment in the 2018 recruitment exercise of whom 1265 are female and 744 are male. But NAQEZ Executive Director Aaron Chansa has expressed shock that the list ...

The Jesuit Center For Theological Reflection is urging government to stand its position and effect the measures that they have proposed regarding the changes to the taxation system in the mining sector. JCTR Policy Analyst Innocent Ndashe says considering that the prices for minerals has been stable at the international market, the country has not benefited from the mining sector ...

The largest opposition political party United Party for National Development (UPND) has described as successful dialogue meeting which outlined among other key issues putting an end to political violence, electoral reforms and judicial reforms. UPND Party Leader Hakainde Hichilema says ending political violence will enable citizens to choose their leaders based on who can truly work to deliver development. Speaking ...

edgar lunguPresident Edgar Lungu has claimed that patriotic front is the only democratic party in the country that allow people to freely choose their candidates without any form of coercion. President Lungu feels that his party has given democracy in Zambia a rebirth after Movement For Multi-Party Democracy (MMD). Speaking when he officiated at the ruling party’s Copperbelt Provincial Conference ...

Zambia Railways Limited (ZRL) has announced a temporary closure on the Chipata-Mchinji Railway Line. This is owing the damage caused by heavy rains on both the Zambian and Malawian side. ZRL Acting Public Relations Manager Sombe Ng’onga has told Q-News in a statement that the damage has also affected movement of trains on the Nacala Corridor in general. Ms. Ng’onga states ...

A 23 year old convict from the Mansa Correctional Service has been shot dead after he escaped from lawful custody at the Mansa subordinate Court. Rodgers Mwelwa of Sumbu Village in Chief Kalasa Lukangaba’s Chiefdom, who was convicted for trafficking in Psychotropic substances, escaped lawful custody on Thursday. ZANIS in Mansa reports that Luapula Province Police Commissioner Elias Chushi has ...