Zambia

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Zambia
Population:	11.9mn.
GNI, $ :	9.5bn.
Debt:	4.9bn.
Overview:	With mining company Vedanta as his country’s chief representative in Zambia, India’s Vice-President Hamid Ansari made Lusaka the site of one of his first diplomatic visits in 2010, promising more cooperation in mining, refining and energy.

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Vol 5 No 2
December 2011

Alarm over security deal

President Sata’s government investigates inflated contracts that were financed with Chinese concessional loans

Vol 5 No 2
December 2011

Kaunda settles Sata's differences with Beijing

President Michael Sata is trying to reassure Chinese politicians and business leaders about his government’s planned reforms.

Vol 5 No 1
November 2011

Wild cats and King Cobra

After being elected president, Michael Sata has softened his combative stance towards Chinese mine owners so now the trades unions are leading the charge

Vol 5 No 1
November 2011

Non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch launched the first in-depth report about abusive practices in Chinese-owned mines in Zambia on 3 November. It is based on the evidence of scores of workers at Chinese copper mines and plants. They reported ...

Vol 5 No 1
November 2011

Wylbur Simuusa

Minister of Mines, Zambia

Vol 4 No 12
October 2011

Ties will remain strong, says Sata

Slating bad Chinese investment in Zambia was a major plank of oppositionist Michael Sata’s electioneering but Beijing’s businessmen are not worried

Vol 4 No 6
April 2011

One law for Zambians, another for Chinese

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 Director of Public Prosecution had dropped the charges of attempted murder aga...

Vol 4 No 5
March 2011

Friends and benefits

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 accused of having his own Asian links. On 14 March, an aricle in the state-...

Vol 4 No 1
November 2010

TAZARA troubles

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 Tanzania-Zambia Railway was China’s most expensive foreign aid project and a m...

Vol 3 No 12
October 2010

Shoot first, negotiate later

Opposition politicians lambast the Lusaka government’s timidity after Chinese managers shoot Zambian mine workers

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