Zambia

Zambia

Population: 13.9 mn.
GDP: 20.7 bn.
Debt: 3.7 bn.
Overview:

President Michael Sata and his Patriotic Front will strive to build a base in Parliament and crush the Movement for Multiparty Democracy, which lacks direction. Infrastructure spending will continue, to create jobs. Wynter Kabimba aims to succeed Sata.

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  • 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

  • Vol 50 No 25
  •  18th December 2009

Prospering yet parlous

The economy is looking up but scandals and regional tensions upset the governing party’s election hopes

  • Vol 50 No 5
  •  6th March 2009

A new federation

In Malawi, the President seems to be blundering towards a new version of the Central African Federation

  • Vol 50 No 3
  •  6th February 2009

Copper slide

Three months after his tiny election win, President Banda finds his country running out of money and jobs

  • Vol 49 No 23
  •  14th November 2008

Banda, the successor

The new President Banda will have to tackle rising inflation and falling export revenue

  • Vol 49 No 23
  •  14th November 2008

Banda boxes clever

Once the promoter of Lottie Mwale, Zambia's Commonwealth boxing champion (1974-83), President Rupiah Bwezani Banda rolls with the punches in Southern Africa's difficult politics. In his long career, he has jumped from party activist to ambassador to footb...

  • Vol 49 No 21
  •  17th October 2008

Pre-presidential discord

Claims of vote-rigging sour the atmosphere for the poll that acting President Rupiah Banda looks likely to win

  • Vol 49 No 18
  •  5th September 2008

A hard act to follow

The death of Zambia’s president means that, not even two years since the last polls, there will be a presidential election before the end of the year. This has revealed deep splits in the governing party and disorganisation in the opposition. At ...

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