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ACTOM, Africa’s largest manufacturer, repairer and distributor of electro-mechanical equipment will exhibit at Electra Mining Africa 2026, taking place at the Johannesburg Expo Centre. Scheduled for 7 to 11 September. The company will use the platform to showcase its fast-growing energy storage capability with lithium-ion batteries, Battery Energy Storage Systems …

By THEMBISA FAKUDE* President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia has won the elections, giving him five more years in power. The Zambian economy has been performing relatively well, with the Zambian Kwacha often stronger than the South African Rand, a development most Zambians celebrate. Notwithstanding, Zambia remains poor and underdeveloped; Hakainde …

LUSAKA — Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema is seeking a second term in an election that presents a critical test of whether his administration’s market-friendly economic reforms can deliver tangible relief to ordinary citizens amid record high copper prices. Since sweeping into power in 2021 after a sovereign debt default, Hichilema …

LUSAKA — Mining companies in Zambia are calling on the government to introduce new tax incentives, expand greenfield exploration, and address severe power shortages as Africa’s second-largest copper producer targets a near-tripling of its annual output. The demands come ahead of the country’s general election, where more than 8 million …

Local commercial and industrial energy users are operating in a more complex power environment shaped by rising demand, grid constraints, changing market rules and pressure to secure reliable, affordable electricity. For manufacturers, mines and other large energy users, the challenge is no longer simply whether to diversify their energy supply. …

Zambia’s commercial and industrial energy users are operating in a more complex power environment shaped by rising demand, grid constraints, changing market rules and pressure to secure reliable, affordable electricity. For manufacturers, mines and other large energy users, the challenge is no longer simply whether to diversify their energy supply. …

Zambians go to the polls on August 13 in presidential and parliamentary elections, with financial markets and opinion polls widely expecting incumbent President Hakainde Hichilema to secure a second term against an opposition led by Brian Mundubile. Having successfully guided the southern African nation through a grueling sovereign debt restructuring, …

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 surveys have expanded …

Across Africa’s mineral belts from Zambia’s bustling copper heartlands to Ghana’s gold fields the legacy bargain between host states and foreign mining conglomerates is unraveling. Governments are no longer content with serving merely as raw material exporters in a “pit-to-port” model. Instead, as the global energy transition elevates copper, gold, …

Prospect Resources’ latest update on the ongoing Phase 3 diamond drilling programme for the Nyungu Central deposit has indicated new intersections lie outside the existing Mineral Resource estimate (MRE) outline and are still open to the southeast. According to Prospect’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Sam Hosack, despite the …