The Southern African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) has condemned President Rupiah Banda’s public attacks on Chieftainess Nkomeshya Mukamambo the Second of the Soli people of Chongwe district. Speaking in an interview in Lusaka today with Qfm, SACCORD Executive Director Lee Habasonda said it was not necessary for President Banda to denounce […]
United Liberal Party (ULP) president Sakwiba Sikota has described the warning by President Rupiah Banda to Chieftainess Nkomeshya as a timely intervention. Mr. Sikota who has abandoned his presidential ambitions to accompany President Banda on his campaign trail tells Qfm that the Chieftainess has a right to support any candidate of her choice but that […]
The opposition Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) has called for reconciliation between Republican President Rupiah Banda and Chieftainess Nkomeshya Mukamabo the second of the Soli people of Chongwe District. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Qfm in Lusaka, FDD deputy national secretary Bishop Anzanga Mbewe has described as unfortunate the ongoing differences between the […]
A large convoy of Libyan soldiers loyal to ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi crossed the desert border into Niger and rolled into the frontier town of Agadez late Monday, a resident who is the owner of a local newspaper said, amid reports that the effort to track down Gaddafi is being led by competing factions […]
Kabwata Patriotic Front parliamentary aspirant Given Lubinda has vowed not give the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) any information concerning the corruption allegations against Universal Print Group. Mr. Lubinda says he still does not see it fit to avail evidence to the ACC when it is not willing to use the evidence in national interest. In […]
CATHOLICS in Mongu have paid a glowing tribute to their late Bishop Paul Francis Duffy at a colourful-solemn funeral ceremony at Mongu stadium this morning, Monday, September 5, 2011. In a series of remembrance prayers offered after the homily, the majority of those prayed made reference to the widespread poverty in Western Province and the […]
Patriotic Front president and strongman, Michael Sata, temporarily caused a pause in the funeral proceedings of the late Paul Duffy when he walked down the stands to greet Vice-President George Kunda and the Catholic bishops in the VIP stand. Mr Sata, who was following proceedings from the commoners stand, responded to Cardinal Merdardo Mazombwe’s call […]
MONGU residents have rejected government’s 11th hour call for dialogue to bring closure to the troubled chapter of broken relationship with the people Western Province. “Let us use this sad occasion of the death of Bishop Duffy to reconcile and bring closure to the ugly past. Let us live in the future and reject the […]
Two children of the same family have been burnt to ashes, while several others have been injured after the truck they were travelling in caught fire in Nyimba district along the great east road. The accident happened around 08:00hrs hours Sunday morning, after the truck developed an electric problem and caught fire. Nyimba District Commissioner […]
The Printing of Ballot papers in Durban South Africa is in its final stages. Universal Print Group Project Manager Vik Vaid says Local Government data for five provinces has already been completed. Mr Vaik has told ZNBC News in Durban that his company is confident that the printing of the remaining ballot papers for four […]