Last spring, Kagem Mining, which is majority-owned by Gemfields—a brand that has placed emeralds on some of the world’s most privileged and famous women—helped the battle against the deadly Covid-19 ...

LUSAKA, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Zambia's environmental regulator said on Tuesday that it has commenced legal proceedings against Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources, over ...

A local community has taken over protecting and managing patches of small evergreen forests, known as mushitu forests, that have recently been subject to illegal logging. Forest officers armed with ...

Zambia-based Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) plans to invest $500m up to 2026 to boost solar power generation and increase the capacity of its power transmission line link to the Democratic ...

A consortium of Chinese companies will finance the upgrading of a 327km (203-mile) road linking the Zambian capital Lusaka to Ndola, in the country's Copperbelt province, after years of false starts.

CHINGOLA, Zambia, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Various development projects in Zambia have benefited from funding by China, a result of the long-lasting bilateral ties between the two countries. One such ...

Zambia Airports Corporation Limited (ZACL) has begun construction of the $397 million Copperbelt International Airport. Humphrey Nkonde reports. Zambia’s new aerodrome is 13km west of Ndola, the ...

Rain lashes the ground in northern Zambia, but the mission presses on. It's a Wednesday in January, and the showers that drench this region--bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo to the north and ...

Vice-President George Kunda has said the Copperbelt Province is no longer a Patriotic Front (PF) stronghold as claimed by the opposition party because the MMD is progressively regaining its popularity ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In July, the search to find the world’s next top-tier copper reserve led a Silicon Valley start-up to the ...

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