DEFENCE Minister Ambrose Lufuma says the $15 billion commitment from a consortium of Chinese investors to ZNS will see the setting up of the biggest Copper Smelter plant in Africa, a fertiliser plant, among other projects. And the China-Asia Economic Association says the new dawn government has made it easier for them to operate. Recently, ZNS Commander Lieutenant General Maliti Solochi disclosed that the defence wing would in two months’ time commence the setting up of a US$15 billion copper smelting plant in Kabompo District. But the Zambia Chamber of Mines challenged the Zambia National Service (ZNS) to clarify the US$ 15 billion financing arguing that the investment figure was equal to what had gone into developing the new North...

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