By Charles F.V. Chitekwe Across Africa, a quiet but consequential revolt against conditional aid is gathering momentum – and the United States should pay close attention....
By John Kourkoutas A cartographic revelation exposes the fundamental flaw in how businesses approach the continent’s 1.4 billion consumers. For decades, multinational corporations and investors have...
By Dishant Shah At first glance, the map appears to be nothing more than a transport plan: rail lines threading through the continent, ports dotting the...
By Martin Mpukani After years marred by debt distress, energy shortages, and climate shocks, Zambia is emerging as one of Africa’s most compelling turnaround stories. The...
By John Kourkoutas If you’re not yet looking at Zambia, you’re overlooking one of Africa’s most strategic – and still underappreciated – markets for exporters and...
By John Kourkoutas Being landlocked presents both challenges and opportunities. This compelling map from Voronoi App illustrates the 45 landlocked countries globally, including 16 in Africa,...
The Constitutional Court of Zambia has ruled that former President Edgar Lungu is ineligible to run for a third term in office. This decision follows Lungu’s...
Reuters | China, Tanzania and Zambia signed an initial agreement to rehabilitate a decades-old railway aimed at improving the rail-sea transportation in resource-rich East Africa, Chinese...
Bloomberg | Zambia plans to establish an investment company that will control at least 30 percent of critical minerals production from future mines. Mines Minister Paul...
The vision of Africa’s founding fathers to unite the continent in shared prosperity is coming to fruition as Nigeria prepares to launch Preferential Trade under the...
By Mary Alorh Earlier this year, we Ghanaians were informed of the ‘good news’ that the IMF had released the second tranche of US$600 million as...
By Gregory Simpkins The South China Morning Post reported on March 29, 2024 that by 2050, it is projected that only a quarter of countries in...
Bloomberg | Africa could have its first cobalt sulphate refinery by the end of 2025, one of the few outside of China capable of making the...
Bloomberg | Zambia plans to build a new rail connection to link a Lake Tanganyika harbor to an existing line that runs to neighboring Tanzania, boosting...
By Caroline Kimeu When Ugandans Maureen Agena and Edward Echwalu arrived at the Lesotho border during their five-month road trip across east and southern Africa, the...
By Gregory Simpkins There has been increasing talk about a New World Order created by the alliance primarily of China and Russia, along with other nations...
By Jukka Pirttilä, Mari Kangasniemi and Partners Over half of Zambia’s population lived below the national poverty line in 2015. In rural areas, where 89 percent...
By Gregory Simpkins I attended the first Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI) in New York recently. It was well produced and well attended, and I got...
Reuters | The Zambian government expects its economy to grow at 4 percent per year in the medium term and is focused on resolving the country’s...
By Wanjohi Kabukuru | The Associated Press AP | From wind farms across the African coastline to geothermal projects in the east African rift valley, a...
Reuters | Former Zambian President Rupiah Banda, 85, died at home on Friday after a short battle with colon cancer, his family and the presidency said....
Bloomberg | African governments are playing catch-up in vaccinating their populations against the coronavirus, with just 12 percent of the continent’s 1.3 billion people fully inoculated...
By David Thomas Africa’s film and audiovisual industry could create over 20 million jobs and an extra US$20 billion in annual revenues with further investment, according...
AFP | Zambia on Friday announced the complete lifting of coronavirus restrictions from the weekend, although just 3 percent of eligible people in the southern African...
As the country continues to experience a power crunch.
Hichilema takes over an economy buckling under record levels of external debt
Hichilema defeated outgoing President Edgar Lungu in a landslide by almost 1 million votes.
Zambian President Edgar Lungu conceded defeat on Monday, after a landslide election win by opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema, who will face the challenge of reviving an...
Kaunda is to be buried on July 7
Kaunda was among Africa's few surviving liberation heroes.
The Finance Ministry in Zambia has rejected a credit downgrade by Moody’s Investors Service, saying the move was unsolicited and should be ignored. Zambia – Africa’s...
The Dangote Group has revealed that the US$400 million cement plant in Masaiti district, in the Zambian Copperbelt will be commissioned by the end this month....
Malaria was not the cause of the Zambian president’s collapse during a public ceremony over the weekend, officials said on Monday. Zambia’s new president, Edgar Lungu...
Edgar Lungu of Zambia’s ruling Patriotic Front has won the country’s presidential election in a tightly fought race, the electoral commission announced Saturday. Lungu won with...
Zambia’s ruling party presidential candidate Edgar Lungu took a slim lead over his rival Hakainde Hichilema after votes from half of constituencies were counted, the electoral...
Zambians flocked to the polls on Tuesday to choose the next leader of one of Africa’s most promising frontier markets, in what shaped up as a...
The Michael Sata administration in Zambia is looking into reviewing the country’s mining taxes as the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) did not collect enough tax from...
Zambia’s central bank said it was increasing its overnight lending rate for commercial banks to 10 percentage points. This is above the benchmark policy rate from...
Zambia needs faster economic growth than its current single-digit annual rate to tackle rampant poverty, the country’s finance minister said. Zambia’s Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda said...
ZESCO has signed a deal with Australia’s African Energy Resources to transmit power to Southern Province from the Aussie firm’s coal-fueled station in Botswana. The memorandum...
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth is set to hit 5.2 per cent, up from 4.7 per cent, the World Bank has said. “This performance is boosted by...
According to Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda, Zambia’s economy is in dire need of diversification. And instead of mining — which doesn’t always show immediate real returns —...
The Zambian government plans to engage mobile phone operators and internet service providers on the development of safety features and tools appropriate for younger internet users....
Zambia’s kwacha hit a new record low against the dollar on Friday. This is as exporters held off on selling the greenback on speculation the...
While colonialism has been ousted from Africa, many argue that multi-national corporations based in far-off capitals practice economic colonialism with developed nations using economic power and...
Zambian mines are still operating profitably despite the fall in copper prices but could be threatened if the price dropped below $5,000 per tonne, Mines Minister...
Zambia’s gross domestic product is now estimated to be over 25 percent bigger after a rebasing its economy and updating the base year from 1994 to...
(Bloomberg) – Zambia plans to establish a sovereign wealth fund to spur investment outside the mining industry of Africa’s biggest copper producer. The fund will be...
Former Zambia President Rupiah Banda. PHOTO/File (AFP) – Zambia’s ex-president Rupiah Banda pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of illicitly receiving election campaign vehicles and...
Aliko Dangote – Founder and Chairman of The Dangote Group Nigerian entrepreneur Aliko Dangote, plans to spend US$350 million to build a new cement plant in...
By Carlos Lopes Africa’s political economy is deeply ingrained with its history of the exploitation and (mis)-management of its mineral and natural resources. More than 500...
(PRNewswire) – Syngenta announced today that it will acquire MRI Seed Zambia Ltd and MRI Agro Ltd (“MRI”), a leading developer, producer and distributor of white...
(Reuters) – Seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa, have cut the number of new HIV infections in children by 50 percent since 2009, the United Nations AIDS...
Former Zambia President Rupiah Banda. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Zambia’s parliament stripped former President Rupiah Banda of immunity from prosecution on Friday, clearing the way for investigators...
Scientists in Zimbabwe say a freshwater crayfish introduced from Australia is breeding out of control in the northern Lake Kariba, devouring the food sources of other...
(Reuters) – Zambia’s mines and energy said on Monday the government would revoke oil exploration licences of companies that had been awarded them but had not...
Aliko Dangote With Dangote’s first cement plant in Zambia set to be completed later this year, a senior company executive has said that plans for another...
Zambia’s captain Christopher Katongo with the trophy celebrates after winning the 2012 African Cup of Nations. PHOTO/File Christopher Katongo has won the 2012 BBC African Footballer...
Betty Kaunda (pictured), the wife of the first President of independent Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, passed away last evening in Zimbabwe where she had gone to visit...
Dangote continues to expand his business empire in Africa. Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote is set to build a US $500 million cement plant in Zambia after...
A High Court in Zambia on Tuesday overturned the dissolution of the former ruling party over unpaid fees, arguing the move had been excessive and against...
In Zambia, bicycles are grown from the ground. Making the most of the southern African country’s bamboo plants, two Zambians and two Americans have set up...
(Reuters) –Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a Lagos-based development financier, is considering potential investments worth US$3 billion across sub-Saharan Africa over the next year, its chief executive...
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) as met with its African member states, as part of its continental fundraising efforts. The consultations on the fringes of...
Former Zambia President Rupiah Banda. PHOTO/File Former Zambian President Rupiah Banda has accepted an appointment as the African President-in-Residence at Boston University. The 75-year-old Banda served...
(Reuters) – Zambia has closed a copper treatment plant belonging to Glencore International’s Mopani Copper Mines for pollution violations, the state environmental agency said on Monday....
(Reuters) – Zambia’s inflation slowed to its lowest rate in at least 10 years this month, to 6.0 percent year-on-year from 6.4 percent in January mainly...
Zambia’s captain Christopher Katongo (L) tussles with Ivory Coast defender Souleman Bamba. PHOTO/AFP/Franck Fife Zambia has won the African Cup of Nations, beating pre-tournament favorite Ivory...
Zambia President Michael Sata. PHOTO/Reuters/Makson Wasamunu Six weeks after his election, President Michael Sata still seems unsure about what he is doing at State House. Few...
Ghana’s Asamoah Gyan fails to score penalty against Zambia. PHOTO/Barry Aldworth/BackpagePix Emmanuel Mayuka came off the bench to score a late goal as Zambia shocked Ghana...
Zambian former First Lady Thandiwe Banda. PHOTO/File Zambia’s former First Lady Thandiwe Banda was Friday questioned by Police in connection with luxurious villas in Lusaka and...
They call the Third World the lazy man’s purview; the sluggishly slothful and languorous prefecture. In this realm people are sleepy, dreamy, torpid, lethargic, and therefore...
Zambia President., Michael Sata An unverified alteration on Wikipedia that Zambian President Michael Sata had died in an assassination Sunday morning prompted the presidency to strongly...
Zambia has dismissed an international rights group’s call for the arrest on torture charges of former President George W. Bush, who has been touring Africa to...
Zambia is among 22 other Sub-Saharan African countries that have seen their Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection rates dropping by 25 percent, a 2011 UN World...
Immediate past president Rupiah Banda (pictured), has been appointed to lead an election observer mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Banda has accepted to...
Zambia’s new government unveiled an expansive 2012 budget on Friday, with big increases in social spending and farming subsidies to be paid for by a rise...
The new government in Zambia, Africa’s biggest copper producer, said on Thursday it had suspended the renewal and issue of new mining licences and would undertake...
Zambia’s new president declared himself “allergic to corruption” and said Friday he will investigate alleged abuse of development funds by members of parliament. President Michael Sata...
Zambia’s new president, Michael Sata (pictured), said on Saturday he would not travel to Malawi for a regional summit because his counterpart had failed to apologise...
Newly elected Zambia President Michael Sata has appointed Guy Scott (pictured), as vice president, making him the first white man to hold that high position since...
New Zambian President Michael Sata fired his respected central bank governor Caleb Fundanga on Thursday and his new mines minister floated plans to boost tax receipts...
Michael Sata sworn in as Zambia’s President – REUTERS/Makson Wasamunu Michael Sata, Zambia’s new president, told Chinese companies on Monday that they were welcome to invest...
Zambian opposition leader Michael Sata (pictured), has been sworn in as president Friday after an upset poll victory that ushered in a smooth handover of power...
The chairwoman of the Electoral Commission of Zambia says challenger Michael Sata (pictured), has defeated the incumbent in presidential elections. Irene Mambilima announced early Friday that...
The latest results from Zambia’s electoral commission show opposition leader Michael Sata leading incumbent President Rupiah Banda 43 to 36 percent, with results in from slightly...
The chairwoman of the Electoral Commission of Zambia has released early results of the presidential vote that show a challenger in the lead. Irene Mambilima told...
Voting has ended in a Zambian general election that E.U. observers say was conducted in a as fair and transparent manner, despite scattered incidents of violence...
Zambia’s President Rupiah Banda (pictured), on Monday made a stern call for peace the day before voters go to the polls in an election that will...
Latest polls place Zambian opposition Patriotic Front (PF) president Michael Sata as a probable winner of the presidency with 54% of the vote after the next...
LUSAKA, Zambia — A Zambian judge has dismissed a petition from the main opposition party trying to block President Rupiah Banda from running for re-election next...
LUSAKA, Zambia — Zambia’s main opposition party says President Rupiah Banda is ineligible for re-election because both his parents were allegedly born outside the country. The...
LUSAKA, Zambia — Zambia’s president says the southern African country will hold national elections in September and that he will run for his first full five-year...
LONG a symbol of stagnation, the African continent is experiencing a reawakening. Poverty and hunger are still widespread problems, but Africa’s growing middle class is creating...
