Trafigura has appointed Chipokota Mwanawasa as Executive Director in Zambia, reinforcing its leadership across metals and minerals, energy and logistics in a market central to global copper supply and regional energy trade. Based in Lusaka, Mwanawasa will coordinate the group’s activities in Zambia including strategic business development and engagement with …

A planned 67% increase in pipeline capacity along the Beira–Feruka route is putting regional fuel security in focus, with infrastructure operators and industry stakeholders set to meet in Zambia to examine how the expansion could improve supply to mining and industrial markets across Southern Africa. Companhia do Pipeline Moçambique-Zimbabwe (CPMZ) …

Perpetual Next have signed a license and engineering agreement with Air Liquide Engineering and Technologies for the supply of syngas-to-methanol technology for Perpetual Next’s first biomethanol facility, with an option to extend across other biomethanol sites. The agreement marks an important step in the industrial roll-out of Perpetual Next’s Biomethanol …

By Nkosilathi Mudiyi A proposed critical minerals partnership with the United States is moving forward on a separate negotiating track after Zambia secured a formal separation between mineral access discussions and a US$1.5 billion health funding agreement. Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mulambo Haimbe confirmed the development at …

SKF South Africa will demonstrate at the South African Railway Association (SARA) 2026 Expo how its full value chain – from advanced components to digital monitoring and lifecycle services – is driving a sustainable rail ecosystem on the African continent. For more than a century, SKF has partnered with railway …

Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) Group Chief Executive Officer, Eng. Owen Silavwe, has received the Energy Transformation Leadership Award in recognition of his leadership in advancing energy transition at the Energy Forum for Africa (EFFA) in Lusaka. The recognition reflects CEC’s long-standing commitment to diversifying Zambia’s energy mix. Before the country …

By Trust Ndebele Patriot Resources is rapidly shifting its Zambian foothold from a single discovery into a broader corridor-scale copper play, extending the prospective footprint of its Tonic discovery to 5.5 kilometres and defining two new drill-ready targets along the highly prospective Mumbwa-Kitumba trend. Recent ground magnetics and induced polarisation …

By Trust Ndebele Prospect has delivered a significant step-up in the value proposition at Mumbezhi over the June quarter, with a further update to the mineral resource estimate MRE. Sam Hosack Prospect Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer said the update is significant for two reasons. “Firstly, it demonstrates the success …

By Nkosilathi Mudiyi Independent copper and future metals developer, Serval Resources’ latest assay results confirm high-grade copper-silver mineralisation across multiple prospects at Kaoko Basin project. According to the company, the results validate and extend previously reported field portable X-ray fluorescence analyser (pXRF) readings, validating Cu-Ag mineralisation across several distinct mineralised …

Zambia’s electricity grid is to be connected to the copper mining heartland of the Democratic Republic of Congo through a new high voltage transmission line, a $300 million project backed by Trafigura Group and a group of partners. The project is known as KKIP and will run from Kalumbila in …