Economy

Minister of Technology and Science, Felix Mutati has concluded a successful visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Minister while in the UAE attended the Gulf Information and Technology Exhibition (GITEX) which was showcasing next generation...

Government has today suspended mining and processing operations at Kasenseli gold mine in Mwinilunga district of North-western province. The mine was operating under mining license number 26457. This is contained in a letter date October 22nd, 2021 signed...

The Tanzania-Zambia railway recorded a 19.4 percent rise in freight traffic in the 2020/2021 financial year ended June 30, 2021. In a statement issued at the end of the 117th Board of Directors meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the...

Zambia has published a full list of its 44 external creditors that shows the central government owes Chinese lenders more than one-third of its total $13.4 billion of foreign-currency debt stock. The Finance Ministry revealed on Wednesday that Zambia’s total...

Transport and Logistics Minister Frank Tayali has assured Lafarge that the government will ease the company’s exports to the Great Lakes region. Mr Tayali says the government will facilitate the smooth export of produce through Mpulungu harbor and that the...

The government says the country can only attain Vision 2030 if the productivity levels are increased. Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Acting Permanent Secretary, Vivien Ndhlovu says the country's aspirations of achieving middle-income status by 2030 are strongly linked...

The Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) has implored the new dawn government not to take the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) signed with a number of lenders as a typical debt service holiday. CTPD Researcher Public Finance Wakumelo...

Caritas Director in the Catholic diocese of Solwezi in North Western province, Noel Haaninga has called on government to ensure that local communities in Kasenseli gold mine in Mwinilunga district yield benefit of mineral extraction in the area. Speaking...

The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has refuted reports claiming that over 3500 by 50 kilogramme bags of maize has gone to waste at Katangalika Satellite Depot in Mwalala ward of Chama North Constituency in Muchinga Province following a...

Vice President Mutale Nalumango has announced that government through the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has bought an additional of 400,000 metric tons of maize to avoid wastage of the staple food, The Vice President said despite the good rainfall during...