CHONGWE, Zambia—Benson Chipungu sits in a leather armchair and reaches for the remote to switch off the news. Pieces of fabric hang over the windows, darkening the room against the heat. A gas-powered ...

Tindor Sikunyongana is trying to run a welding business which these days means buying a diesel generator with costly fuel he can't always afford. Like everyone in Zambia, Sikunyongana is facing a ...

Drying rice seed on a farm near Mongu, Zambia. Credit: Luke Olsen, S.J. In July, a group of farmers gathered in a small mission style chapel about two hours outside Mongu, the capital of Western ...

Two men are on trial in Zambia on charges of practicing witchcraft and possessing charms intended to harm the country's president, in a case that has become a source of fascination in the southern ...

Zambia plans to establish an investment company that will control at least 30% of critical minerals production from future mines. Mines Minister Paul Kabuswe unveiled a strategy on Thursday that he ...

Zambia has cancelled US$1.6 billion in agreed upon but not-disbursed Chinese loans, mostly from China Exim Bank and the Industrial Commercial Bank of China, to help manage its debt woes. It is a ...

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar opened an Israeli embassy in Zambia on Wednesday during a diplomatic visit to the southern African country. “It is an honor and a privilege to be here in Lusaka and open ...

Zambia is on a transformative path, overcoming debt challenges through the G-20 Common Framework and implementing critical reforms. Despite rapid GDP growth in the 2000s, poverty remains widespread, ...