US Chargé d’Affaires Mich Coker says the $1.5 billion health MoU is not conditional on critical minerals. Meanwhile, Health Minister Professor Roma Chilengi says the contents of the MoU will not be made public, noting that the bottlenecks in the agreement had already been publicly discussed. And Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mulambo Haimbe said the critical minerals discussion is separate from the $1.5 billion agreement signed between the Ministry of Health and the United States. Speaking during the MoU signing ceremony on Thursday, Coker said there was need to address the myths surrounding the MOU, adding that the misconceptions were misleading. “There is need to share the misleading misconceptions around this MOU such as, the US will...

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