The Zambian government has agreed a revised tax regime with copper mining companies operating in the country, dropping the 15% export levy on copper concentrates for some firms and permanently scrapping the 25% windfall tax, people familiar with the matter said Thursday to Dow Jones. According to these sources, the government has agreed to waive [...]

President Rupiah Banda is on Friday expected to officially open the Zimba – Livingstone Road. The road has been going through some resurfacing. A statement from State house states that president Banda will travel to Livingstone on Friday morning to commission the completed 42.8 kilometre road works and officially open the road to motorists. The [...]

Survival International has launched its call for a boycott of Botswana diamonds Wednesday, over the government’s treatment of the Kalahari Bushmen. The tribal peoples’ rights organization held a protest outside De Beers’s flagship diamond store in London, and a letter will be handed in at the De Beers San Francisco store later today. De Beers [...]

Rwanda, Cape Verde and Zambia led the 27 sub-Saharan African countries that improved their position in the World Bank’s Doing Business survey, a report that measures the ease of conducting business in 183 countries. Cape Verde, an archipelago off the continent’s Atlantic coast, along with the two other countries counted among the top 10 most-improved [...]