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By PROFESSOR OLIVER SAASA* Venerated novelist, essayist and critic George Orwell once said, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” Among the many things that have often been difficult to hear is the opinion that Foreign Direct …

Zambia’s decision to take control of a copper mine in the country’s north three years ago will be subject to an arbitration hearing in London in January, the country’s mines minister announced on Wednesday, amid a long-running dispute over the mine’s ownership. Zambia handed control of Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) …

Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) in Zambia will appoint an adviser to assist it in finding an equity investor willing to fund the mine’s expansion, its provisional liquidator announced on Tuesday. In May 2019, Zambia’s previous government placed KCM in the hands of a liquidator, sparking an ongoing legal dispute with …

The Energy Regulation Board (ERB) has granted regulatory approval of the new bulk supply agreement (BSA) to be entered into between CEC and ZESCO Limited (ZESCO). According to CEC this follows the initialing of the BSA by CEC and ZESCO on 6 April 2022, an application for regulatory approval was …

First Quantum Minerals has recorded a 2,180 decrease in its copper production at its Kansanshi Mine in Solwezi for the second quarter of 2022. Kansanshi’s copper production was 39,719 tonnes, while the company’s copper production at its Sentinel mine in Kalumbila of 52,447 tonnes was on target. Combined production from …