#Zambia

Zambia started a cash tender offer to buy back its $1.36 billion bond due in 2053, becoming the latest African nation to repurchase outstanding debt as governments seek to reduce their servicing costs.

A London arbitration tribunal ordered Zambia’s majority state-owned investment company, ZCCM Investments Holdings Plc, to pay Trafigura about $92 million in a long-running dispute over a prepayment agreement between the commodity trader and Konkola Copper…

Researchers say Kafue Rift could become new tectonic plate boundary and lead to break-up of sub-Saharan Africa

Zambia has rejected terms in a proposed US health deal, accusing Washington of linking the agreement to access to the country’s critical minerals

From Independent RSS Feed: Zambia blasts the US over a $2 billion health deal in exchange for critical minerals

From Seattletimes RSS Feed: Zambia blasts the US over a $2 billion health deal in exchange for critical minerals

Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia

RightsCon, one of the world's largest digital human rights conferences, was suddenly postponed by Zambia's government just days before it was scheduled to begin in Lusaka.…

RightsCon was delayed by Zambia's Ministry of Information for "thematic issues" and problems with speakers.

From Reddit - r/africa: Zambia Must Decide Today: Open Minerals To American Firms Or Lose HIV Support For 1.3 Million

From Reddit - r/worldnews: Zambia Must Decide Today: Open Minerals To American Firms Or Lose HIV Support For 1.3 Million

Zambia must decide by April 30 if it will provide American businesses with preferential access to its minerals.

Three decades after one of the largest lead mines in the world closed down, people in Kabwe, Zambia, are still dealing with the aftermath. Facing pervasive lead contamination that continues to endanger their children, families in Kabwe, with a coalition…

Zambia is expanding development of its rich deposits of critical minerals, which are needed for the global shift to renewables.

Zambia is expanding development of its rich deposits of critical minerals, which are needed for the global shift to renewables. But poisoning from past mining and a huge toxic spill at a mine site are raising fears that new wealth will come at a high cost…