Zambia News » Copperbelt News Zambia » Copperbelt: Copperbelt to invest $500m in solar power and transmission line upgrades
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 ...
News Zambia » Copperbelt: CEC’s green energy expansion lights up Zambia’s Copperbelt
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 ...
News Zambia » Copperbelt: Zambia: Copperbelt Museum to Transform Focus Into Science And Technology
Museums are vital institutions of heritage and cultural preservation of any nation. It is through museums that people begin to learn about the institutional character of a nation. A nation can be ...
News Zambia » Copperbelt: Zambia: Fighting Multiple Outbreaks 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 ...
News Zambia » Copperbelt: Copperbelt being groomed as starting point of cassava food-and-fuel thrust in Zambia
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News Zambia » Copperbelt: Zambia’s plan to dig its way out of debt with a copper revival
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,” ...
News Zambia » Copperbelt: Zambia, the copperbelt under pressure
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 ...
News Zambia » Copperbelt: High hopes for Zambia’s copperbelt ghost town
Navigating its way over the remaining shreds of baize, the snooker ball hit the side of the table with a gentle thud. The table was majestic once, with its heavy, intricately carved legs that are now ...
News Zambia » Copperbelt: How The Emeralds Of Gemfields Provide Access To Healthcare, Education, And Employment In Zambia’s Copperbelt Province
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 ...
News Zambia » Copperbelt: Zambia’s plan to dig its way out of debt with a copper revival
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 ...