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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 52 No 10
  •  13th May 2011

Glencore connection

The serenity of Glencore’s Initial Public Offering on the Hong Kong and London Stock Exchanges remains undisturbed by revelations of inflated costs and transfer-pricing by Zambia’s Mopani Copper Mines. MCM is 73% owned by the Swiss mining and trading gian...

  • Vol 52 No 6
  •  18th March 2011

Taxing problems for Zambia

Some US$66 million in tax revenue owed to the Treasury are missing, according to the mid-February report on Zambia published under the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). The report showed that the mining companies had paid $463 mn. to t...

  • Vol 52 No 2
  •  21st January 2011

Banda on the backfoot

Despite a faster-growing economy, opposition parties are winning support by pushing nationalism

  • Vol 52 No 1
  •  7th January 2011

Challenging Banda

President Rupiah Banda is facing an increasingly strong challenge in the upcoming elections since Michael Sata’s Patriotic Front (PF) made common cause with the United Party for National Development (UPND) of Hakainde Hichilema. It remains to be seen, how...

  • Vol 51 No 23
  •  19th November 2010

Mining for votes

Firebrand politician Michael Sata’s anti-Chinese rhetoric is helping the opposition’s campaign ahead of next year’s elections

  • Vol 51 No 23
  •  19th November 2010

Taking on the journalists

President Rupiah Banda and his Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) are struggling to control the mass media before next year’s general elections. The private media, especially the popular newspaper The Post, are thriving, riding high on the declining ...

  • Vol 51 No 17
  •  27th August 2010

Copper-bottomed but leaky

Booming mines and farms, and a government beset by talk of corruption and strange legal decisions

  • Vol 51 No 17
  •  27th August 2010

Strong investment, weak prosperity

According to the latest figures from the Zambia Development Agency (ZDA), foreign direct investment totalled a record US$2.4 billion in the first half of 2010, up from $959 million in the same period in 2009. If the flow continues at that rate, it will ex...

  • Vol 51 No 9
  •  30th April 2010

The battle around Banda

Even his own party cannot agree on whether to back the President for the coming election campaign

  • Vol 51 No 9
  •  30th April 2010

Tax and spend

The IMF advises the government to raise taxes to finance public investment; the mining companies beg to differ

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