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The Munali project sitting about 60km south of Lusaka in southern Zambia is a very promising project with an estimated production of 10,000–10,500t of nickel, 1,650t of copper, more than 480t of cobalt and 18,000oz of PGM by early 2009 after the purchase of used mining equipment for sale by contractors to boost productivity. It is wholly owned by Australian company Albidon Ltd, and currently consists...
Choose Your Language Of Preference Below French Version German Version Russian Version Spanish Version Portuguese Version Chinese Version Arabic Version LUSAKA, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) — The Zambian government has formed a task force to tackle the rising food prices. The task force will come up with a national action plan and bring out interventions needed in the [...]
Choose Your Language Of Preference Below French Version German Version Russian Version Spanish Version Portuguese Version Chinese Version Arabic Version LUSAKA, 3 December 2008 (IRIN) - Zambians are gradually turning to greener energy technologies to save trees after suffering years of extensive flooding and droughts, which could slow the impact of climate change. Charcoal-fed braziers are being [...]...
Choose Your Language Of Preference Below French Version German Version Russian Version Spanish Version Portuguese Version Chinese Version Arabic Version LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia’s annual inflation rate quickened marginally to 15.3 percent in November from 15.2 percent in October, mainly due to rising food prices, its Central Statistical Office (CSO) said on Wednesday. The CSO said the [...]
Choose Your Language Of Preference Below French Version German Version Russian Version Spanish Version Portuguese Version Chinese Version Arabic Version ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA Correspondent LUSAKA: Recent assurances by Zambia’s newly appointed Sports Minister, Kenneth Chipungu, that the country will successfully host the All Africa Games (AAG) in 2011 sound hollow given that the situation on the ground tells...
Choose Your Language Of Preference Below French Version German Version Russian Version Spanish Version Portuguese Version Chinese Version Arabic Version LUSAKA (Reuters) - Foreign copper mines in Zambia are struggling to pay new mining taxes set earlier this year, making it unlikely the country will achieve a $415 million revenue collection target, a senior revenue official [...]
Lusaka - Copper-rich Zambia will fall far short of its target of raising half a billion dollars in mine taxes this year because of the significant drop in international copper prices caused by the global economic downturn, it emerged Wednesday. Zambi...
Lusaka- Despite experiencing biting energy shortages Zambia has had to delay a planned new hydroelectric power station by a year because of the global financial crisis, the World Bank announced Tuesday. The 750-megawatt (MW) Kafue Gorge Lower Hydropo...
PUBLIC drivers operating on Lusaka's town centre-Chilenje route yesterday parked their minibuses and damaged others in protest against a traffic police officer whom they alleged has been demanding money from them for any road regulation contravention.
Hundreds of bus and taxi drivers staged a violent demonstration in the Zambian capital Lusaka on Monday to protest what they called was unreasonable police harassment directed towards them when they are on duty. Trouble started when a traffic police officer on patrol impounded 45 commuter mini buses for various traffic offenses, angering the drivers who [...]
After weeks of waiting, Michael Phiri decided to take matters into his own hands. The 16-year-old from George Compound, a township outside Lusaka, was so anxious to be rid of his foreskin, and so frustrated after being turned away from the circumcision clinic at the University Teaching Hospital for the third time, that he took a bread knife and did the job himself. The resulting bloody mess had one...
By REUTERS LUSAKA, ZambiaReuters The incumbent party’s ariana, Rupiah Banda, was sworn in as Zambia’s president on Sunday, vowing to keep doors open to foreign investors after a disputed election victory over his populist rival. Found fatally shot in SoCal homeless encampment. By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY As Election Day looms, late [...]
LUSAKA High Court Judge Hilda Chibomba has recused herself from the case in which Lumwana Mining Company has sued Zesco over its notice to terminate the power supply agreement (PSA) and disconnect the mine from the electricity grid.
THE Lusaka High Court has ruled that Government is owed K17.5 billion by C and S Investment, a company that was engaged to supply cheap mealie meal in 2000.
