Zambia officially charged former President Rupiah Banda for abuse of authority over a Nigerian oil bargain, a government spokeswoman said on Monday. The former President was accused of misappropriating more than $11 million during his three years in office. He was arrested then later on released on a bond,...
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Zambian miners killed a Chinese supervisor and seriously wounded another on Saturday in a pay dispute at the Collum coal mine, labor minister Fackson Shamenda said on Sunday. Chinese companies have invested more than $1bn in copper-rich Zambia but animosity towards them is growing as Zambian workers accuse firms of abuses and underpaying. Workers at the Collum mine, situated...
A Chinese company plans to invest $100 million in a Zambian mining project that will produce 600 tonnes of copper cathodes a year, a government agency said on Thursday. Zambia’s environmental management agency, which has to approve all major infrastructure projects in Africa’s biggest copper producer, said China Copper Mines Ltd had applied to build a copper...
