Friday, March 29, 2024

Economy

TAZARA signs investment cooperation agreement with Bombardier

The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bombardier Transportation, the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm Bombardier...

State-run ZAMTEL to provide technology to manage the Toll Gates

Zamtel and the National Roads Fund Agency today signed a K 1, 7 million Service Agreement for the Design, Supply, Installation and...

The Outsourcing of over 4, 000 KCM Mineworkers condemned

Copperbelt Trade and Development Forum (CTDF) Executive Director Vincent Lengwe has said that the corporate conduct by some of the major mining companies on...

Nine Mines migrate to the Electronic Reporting System

Nine Major mines on the Copperbelt and North-Western Provinces have been migrated from manual monthly minerals production reporting to the electronic submission of reports...

Government should consider reintroducing the 7.5 % import duty on copper concentrates-Kafwanka

Business and Financial Analyst Blessings Kafwanka has called on government to consider reintroducing the 7.5 percent import duty on copper concentrates in the 2018...

83 percent of projects are done by Chinese companies – Mulusa

Government has disclosed that China holds the largest contracts in the infrastructure sector amounting to about 83 percent. National Planning and Development Minister Lucky Mulusa...

Government pays off K308.5 million Ministries Debt to ZESCO, ZSIC and Zamtel

The Government has paid K308.5 million of verified debt owed by various Ministries, Provinces and spending agencies to Zesco, ZSIC, and Zamtel. Out of the...

Joblessness and poverty has still remained high in Zambia despite economic performance-Mwanakatwe

Commerce Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe says despite the improvement of the Country’s economic performance since 2001, as evidenced by the increased inflow of foreign direct...