Vol 52 No 1 | ZAMBIA Challenging Banda 7th January 2011 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 Na...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 12 | ZAMBIAASIA Ties will remain strong, says Sata 5th October 2011 Slating bad Chinese investment in Zambia was a major plank of oppositionist Michael Sata’s electioneering but Beijing’s businessmen are not worried Immediately after Michael Sata’s election as President of Zambia on 22 September, global copper prices fell to their lowest point in almost a year, hitting US$7,500 per tonne, am...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 6 | ZAMBIACHINA One law for Zambians, another for Chinese 15th April 2011 Michael Sata of the opposition Patriotic Front says: ‘Under Rupiah, there are two laws: one for Chinese and one for other investors.’ He was reacting to news that Zambia’s Dire...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 5 | ZAMBIACHINATAIWAN Friends and benefits 31st March 2011 Veteran oppositionist Michael ‘King Cobra’ Sata often accuses President Rupiah Banda and the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy of being too cosy with China. Now Sata stands ...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 1 | TANZANIAZAMBIACHINA TAZARA troubles 18th November 2010 China’s flagship African railroad project continues to lose money, and Chinese management may be brought in to avoid throwing more good money after bad. Built in the 1970s, the Tan...
Vol 51 No 23 | ZAMBIACHINA Mining for votes 19th November 2010 Firebrand politician Michael Sata’s anti-Chinese rhetoric is helping the opposition’s campaign ahead of next year’s elections Opposition politicians and trades unionists have gone on the offensive since Chinese managers at the Collum coal mine shot protesting Zambian workers on 21 October. The charge is l...
Vol 51 No 23 | ZAMBIA Taking on the journalists 19th November 2010 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 ...
Vol 51 No 17 | ZAMBIA Copper-bottomed but leaky 27th August 2010 Booming mines and farms, and a government beset by talk of corruption and strange legal decisions Fuelled by rising world demand for copper and cobalt and by a bumper maize harvest, the economy is growing at a roaring 7.5%. Yet President Rupiah Banda, who will seek re-election ...
Vol 51 No 17 | ZAMBIA Strong investment, weak prosperity 27th August 2010 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...
Vol 51 No 9 | ZAMBIA The battle around Banda 30th April 2010 Even his own party cannot agree on whether to back the President for the coming election campaign Rupiah Bwezani Banda came to office by accident in November 2008, on the death of President Levy Mwanawasa. He hopes to win another election next year and has the advantage of incu...