The Zambian government plans to revise the tax system and raise royalties to triple revenue from the mining sector by 2017 and prevent tax evasion. The cries of Zambians are that they need to see ...

As mining companies scour Zambia's Copperbelt for metals used in sustainable energy, locals are dealing with unchecked pollution and contamination.Along rivers and farmland in Zambia's Copperbelt, ...

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 ...

Zambia's notorious "black mountains" - huge heaps of mining waste that scar the Copperbelt skyline - are deeply personal to Stary Mwaba, one of the country's leading visual artists. "As kids, we used ...

Perhaps in a sign of the Copperbelt nostalgia that still lingers, Theresa Mulenga, a 52-year-old homemaker, is confident Zambia can meet its deadline. “Twenty years is a lot of time to pay back,” ...

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The 136 MW Itimpi II solar plant is Zambia’s largest operational solar project to date. Elsewhere in the country, an investment agreement has been signed to add 250 MW of solar to the 100 MW Nambala ...

The Zambian Copperbelt has been central to the country’s economy since colonial times, with mining towns such as Ndola and Kitwe embodying the nexus of extractive capital, labour migration and social ...

Despite Zambia losing more than 70% of its 3.5GW installed capacity after the devastating weather cycle El Niño hurt hydropower generation plants across the country, private transmission, generation ...

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 ...