ZCCM-IH has accused Abu Dhabi’s International Resources Holding (IRH) of breaching agreements under which the Emirati company acquired control of the Mopani copper mining complex in early 2024, Bloomberg reports. According to Bloomberg, ZCCM Investments […]

  The announcement, on September 25, of a US$250 million financing deal to fund accelerated power infrastructure development in Africa has excited the global energy market and raised the pertinent question of what this could […]

Part One argued that installed electricity capacity is not the same as dependable, deliverable power. Part Two examines what must work between a generator and an eligible buyer before electricity can arrive reliably. Zambia has […]

This analysis draws on findings and reports from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and other international conservation and environmental organizations.   […]

  Sepo’s payslip was finally clean. After 5 months of deductions for a loan she took out to buy a laptop, she could not believe she was getting a clean pay-slip. Having worked for 10 […]

  This week, African leaders gathered in New York with a message that sounded both bold and overdue: Africa must take greater control of its own health systems. Ghanaian President John Mahama launched a new […]

Seventy-seven years after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, its transformation provides an important case study for developing nations like Zambia. It demonstrates the importance of thinking beyond electoral cycles. It demonstrates what... […]

Postpartum remains a difficult subject to navigate, largely because society has never quite decided what to do with a woman’s emotions after childbirth. The arrival of a baby is traditionally treated as the culmination of […]

  At the time of writing this, I am preparing for a panel taking place this evening on “Living healthily with Diabetes”. The title made me pause, because living healthily sounds simple until we ask […]

This week’s Monday Opinion examines a distinction that is becoming central to Zambia’s energy and industrialization debate: installed electricity capacity is not the same thing as dependable power and dependable power is not the same […]