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Vol 66 No 19 |
- ZAMBIA
- CHINA
President Hakainde Hichilema's government has upped the ante in its dispute with Sino-Metals demanding more compensation for a collapse at the dam that resulted in more than one million tonnes of toxic waste spilling into Kafue River...
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Vol 66 No 14 |
- GHANA
- ZAMBIA
- DEBT
Like Ghana President Hakainde Hichilema's government is expected by the IMF with whom its 38-month loan facility ends in October to increase revenues...
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President Hakainde Hichilema is under fire for his laggardly response to ex-President Edgar Lungu's death following claims by the opposition that he prevented his predecessor from travelling abroad for cancer treatment...
Although he beat ex-President Edgar Lungu by a landslide in the 2021 election President Hakainde Hichilema believes his old enemy is an obstacle to his hopes of re-election in the polls set for August 2026 and he is moving mountains to remove him from the political scene using first threats and now inducements...
During his election campaign President Hakainde Hichilema said the first law he would repeal would be the Cyber Security and the Cyber Crimes Act which President Edgar Lungu had introduced in the run-up to the 2021 election and which Hichilema had condemned as an attack on civil liberties...
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Mining insiders say that Vedanta was unpopular with the local community around Konkola and significantly under-utilised the mine's resources President Hakainde Hichilema's government is desperate to use Zambia's mining and minerals to drive the economy (AC Vol 65 No 6 Can mega discovery end debt impasse...
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Following an informal summit with Presidents Félix Tshisekedi Hakainde Hichilema and João Lourenço on 4 December the White House pledged an additional US$600 million in financing for projects related to the Lobito Corridor the 1 300-kilometre railway line connecting the mineral and oil-rich parts of Angola Zambia and Congo-Kinshasa...
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Congo-K's President Félix Tshisekedi and Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema were among the first African leaders on 6 November to congratulate Trump on his victory...
It follows his charge made to Russia's President Vladimir Putin at an international trade fair in St Petersburg in June that President Hakainde Hichilema in neighbouring Zambia was conspiring with ‘western powers' to overthrow the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) government (Dispatches 11/6/24 Praising Moscow Mnangagwa accuses US of backing Zambia's military)...
Angered by a raft of allegations against senior officials President Hakainde Hichilema has dissolved the board of the country's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)...
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Vol 65 No 14 |
- TANZANIA
- ZAMBIA
The drought has led to a major drop in water levels at Zambia's hydroelectric power plants in response to which President Hakainde Hichilema's government plans to import electricity from Tanzania...
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