About 48 million Kwacha is expected to be spent towards the procurement of various school requisites for 80,000 vulnerable girls under the Keeping Girls in School Project. KGS Project Coordinator Willie Kaputo tells Q-news that a total of K600 is being given to each beneficiary this year to assist with buying of school requisites under the education grant component which ...

A representative from the Anglican children’s program, father Jackson Jones Katete has cautioned members of the public against giving alms to children on the streets. Father Katete is of the strong view that alms giving to the street children contributes to their continued stay on the streets and in some cases also encourages them to recruit other children to join them in ...

A 36-year old woman of Lusaka has committed suicide by jumping off the Misisi footbridge along Kafue road. Deputy Police Public Relations Officer Danny Mwale says the incident happened today,22nd June,2022 between 10:30 hours and 11:00 hours. Mr Mwale explains that the deceased who has been identified as Mutinta Maambo sustained a deep cut on the head and was pronounced ...

Republican President Hakainde Hichilema has held talks with European Union Council President Charles Michel in Brussels,Belgium. In a Facebook post on his page, President Hichilema says the discussion centered on the need for enhanced partnerships in key areas of trade and investment between Zambia Europe because this is key and a path to sustainable development in place of aid. Mr ...

Advocacy for Child Justice has stressed the need for the Marriage Bill to be urgently taken to Parliament for enactment. Organization Executive Director Josephat Njobvu says the current statistics on child marriages in Zambia are alarming, hence the need to strengthen legislation and policies that can protect the children against this vice. Speaking on the sidelines of a Network on ...

Civil Society Scaling Up Nutrition Alliance (CSO-SUN) has called for the review of the relief food package in order to protect the nutrition status of affected people. CSO SUN Country Coordinator Mathew Mhuru says most of the food aid interventions have not been nutrition sensitive and are mono diet based. Mr Mhuru is saddened with the lack of food diversity in ...

The Human Rights Commission (HRC) has strongly condemned the ill-treatment of youths suspected to have defamed President Hakainde Hichilema by the Zambia Army officers in Chiengi District of Luapula Province on 15th June, 2022. In a statement obtained by Q-NEWS, HRC Chairperson Mudford Mwandenga says the commission is shocked and gravely concerned at the apparent lack of remorse by the ...

The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit (AMLIU) has arrested an Accounts Assistant for money laundering activities involving over K2 million contrary to the Laws of Zambia. Joannie Nsekesha Mumpashya, a female Accounts Assistant aged 38 years of Plot No. 311 Dam Area in Chongwe has been arrested for fraudulent false accounting contrary to Section 327 ...

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has disclosed that it has since January 2022 received one billion, four hundred and two million, four hundred and eighty four thousand, three and fifty five Kwacha (K1, 402, 484, 355. 00) from the treasury towards the constituency development fund (CDF). Speaking at a press briefing in Lusaka today, minister in-charge, Garry ...

The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit (AMLIU) has arrested an Accounts Assistant for money laundering activities involving over K2 million contrary to the Laws of Zambia. Joannie Nsekesha Mumpashya, a female Accounts Assistant aged 38 years of Plot No. 311 Dam Area in Chongwe has been arrested for fraudulent false accounting contrary to Section 327 ...