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Zambia
Population: 13.2 mn.
GDP: 16.2 bn.
Debt: 1.1 bn.
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President Michael Sata will use his anti-corruption drive to silence the MMD, now in opposition. He will battle to honour his commitment to higher pay, especially in the copper mines. The MMD will replace leader and former president Rupiah Banda.

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  • Vol 41 No 8
  •  14th April 2000

Post-KK traumas

The old leader has gone and the new ones have not yet arrived

  • Vol 40 No 23
  •  19th December 1999

Chiluba and after

The President, tempted by another term, would face rivals within his own party

  • Vol 40 No 23
  •  19th December 1999

Gunmen at the gate

KK's aspiring politicial son, Wezi, was murdered. On whose orders?

  • Vol 40 No 12
  •  11th June 1999

Paris to Lusaka

The usual bashing of non-governmental organisations followed the World Bank's Consultative Group on Zambia in Paris on 26-28 May (AC Vol 40 No 11). Zambia's Finance Minister Edith Nawakwi arrived home on 6 June and lashed out at the 'plotting' by the eig...

  • Vol 40 No 11
  •  28th May 1999

Down, not out

The mines are still not privatised but the opposition is at last taking shape

  • Vol 40 No 6
  •  19th March 1999

Mining the depths

Delay on privatisation has cost the country dear – and it isn't over yet

  • Vol 40 No 3
  •  5th February 1999

Copper crunch

The timing could hardly have been worse. As the world price of copper plummets, the Zambian government has at last moved decisively towards selling off its one big asset, the best parts of Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines. Under a memorandum of understand...

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