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A planned coal-fired power plant in Moatize, province of Tete, is seeking more than half a billion dollars in financing from multilateral lenders and export credit agencies, the head of the company leading the project told the media. Saudi Arabia-based ACWA Power is leading the development of the 300 MW …

LUSAKA – Zambia’s copper production will be around 700 000 t this year and next year before rising to one-million tonnes in 2018, a top government official said on Monday. Copper production in Africa’s second-biggest producer of the metal inched higher to 711 515 t in 2015 from 708 000 …

Savannah and Rio Tinto plan to start construction of a major new heavy sands mine in southern Mozambique in 2017, but the joint venture they agreed last year is still awaiting approval from the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy. The joint venture, to combine Savannah’s Jangamo mining licence in …

The Zimbabwean Government has given diamond mining companies in Chiadzwa and Chimanimani 90 days to remove their equipment and other valuables from the mines after it stopped their operations yesterday. The firms whose mining special grants expired and were not renewed will, however, be expected to hand over all diamond …

A Turkish-built floating power plant docked in Nacala port yesterday, 18 February, where it will spend the next two years generating 100 MW for the Zambian market as well as fortifying the electricity grid in northern Mozambique. The ship, which belongs to Turkish power company Karadeniz, will burn heavy fuel …