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Thousands of people have flooded into northwestern Zambia seeking gold said to be buried just under the surface.- The gold ...

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The Zambian government and mining companies are at loggerheads over plans to increase mine royalties, while the people complain they are seeing no benefits. The Zambian government plans to revise the ...

WITH the growth of the mining industry on the Copperbelt, other development sectors like tourism are now faced with the challenge to grow alongside the mining industry. Going by the status quo, it is ...

LUANSHYA, Zambia -- The global economic meltdown swept into this company town and took down the copper mine in January. It left in its wake a crisis measured in unsold tomatoes at the market, empty ...

South African business representatives have been asked to invest more into the Copperbelt province of Zambia, with a greater focus on job creation, value addition and diversification. Zambian ...

LUANSHYA, Zambia, May 6 (JTA) Dragging himself into the H. Figov Store on two sticks that serve as crutches, Muli Mulenga, wearing a threadbare Mickey-Mouse T-shirt and torn pants, desperately hopes ...

Rain lashes the ground in northern Zambia, but the mission presses on. It’s a Wednesday in January, and the showers that drench this region—bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo to the north and ...

Copperbelt Energy Corp., the Zambian electricity supplier with customers including Glencore Plc’s copper mines, may invest as much as $250 million in solar projects and transmission lines in the ...

LUSAKA, Zambia (Reuters) -- An earthquake shook Zambia's rich copperbelt on Monday but no casualties or damage were reported, the country's top geologist said. Davidson Mulela, director of Zambia's ...