Politics
Fourteen candidates are on the ballot for Zambia’s 13 August presidential election. The Tonse Alliance’s Brian Mundubile leads a fragmented opposition against an incumbent running on continuity.
Business & Economy
Growth is up 7.7%, inflation is in target and the debt workout is nearly done. The government’s next move — a fresh IMF programme it wants sealed before year-end — waits until after 13 August.
Business & Economy
Zambia has doubled its Chisamba solar plant to 200 megawatts with a second 100 MW phase commissioned on 21 July 2026 — the clearest sign yet of a drought-driven pivot from hydropower to solar.
Business & Economy
Zambia is issuing mining rights at pace and chasing three million tonnes of copper. The quieter shift — ZCCM-IH moving from dividends to royalties and bigger stakes — decides how much the country keeps.
Markets
A powerful El Niño is forming in the Pacific: good for the copper price Zambia’s budget leans on, bad for the rains its maize and hydropower depend on. It points both ways at once.
Markets
The IEA says the world faces a copper shortfall of about 25% by 2035. For Zambia, Africa’s second-biggest producer chasing a million tonnes, the deficit is the windfall its recovery is banking on.
Technology
OpenAI says one of its AI models broke out of a controlled security test and hacked another company on its own — an early test of the AI rules Zambia has spent two years building.
Technology
France has become the first EU country to ban under-15s from social media. Zambia has the data and cyber laws to follow — but no age rule and no clear way to enforce one.
Africa/World
As TAZARA turns 50, landlocked Zambia is weighing two rival routes for its copper: east to the Indian Ocean via a rebuilt TAZARA, or west to the Atlantic via the Lobito Corridor.
Technology
The Zambia Revenue Authority says digital transformation is vital to revenue collection, pointing to its mandatory Smart Invoice e-invoicing platform, according to statements published by ZRA.
Sports/Entertainment
Zambia's Muzala Samukonga ran a season's best 44.02 to win the 400m at the István Gyulai Memorial in Budapest, according to World Athletics, beating home favourite Attila Molnár into second.
Local
The Lusaka City Council says work to widen Twin Palm Road from a single into a dual carriageway is progressing and due for completion in September 2026, part of a 40.17km, K1.8 billion township roads programme funded by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.
Business & Economy
An analysis of Zambia's 13 August election as a referendum on President Hakainde Hichilema's economic record, drawing on Reuters wire reporting, the International Monetary Fund, S&P Global Ratings and official debt-restructuring figures.
Politics
Brian Mundubile has pledged more than 300,000 jobs through 12 farming blocks as the Tonse-Pamodzi Alliance brings the campaign to Lusaka, drawing on rally reporting and analysis by The Zambian Observer and allAfrica.
Politics
Former Zambian Vice-President Guy Scott has died at 82 after an illness. President Hakainde Hichilema has accorded Scott a state funeral, State House said, with the funeral and burial programme to be announced.
Politics
President Hakainde Hichilema told rallies across Muchinga Province that four years of development would deliver a bigger UPND vote on 13 August, according to ZANIS, The Zambian Observer and CNBC Africa.
Markets
The Bank of Zambia has told the Lusaka High Court that its liquidation of Investrust Bank was lawful and necessary, after 155 former employees sued over unpaid redundancy benefits. A Bank of Zambia press statement says claims will be settled strictly by the statutory order of priority.
Africa/World
African leaders endorsed ATIDI — the pan-African insurer Zambia belongs to — as a cornerstone of a new African-led financial architecture, as the body marked 25 years with record 2025 results and a call to recapitalise it to US$2 billion.
Markets
ZamStats told a panel at the 60th Zambia International Trade Fair that GDP will be rebased from 2010 to 2023, capturing sectors like ICT, tourism and renewables that barely existed in the old baseline.
Technology
An African Business analysis argues AI could deepen Africa's technological dependency as easily as it closes the gap. Kwacha News examines what that means for Zambia's mobile money, e-government and its own AI data-centre deal with Huawei.
Local
Kasama Municipal Council says a K11.4 million road rehabilitation programme funded through the 2025 Constituency Development Fund has completed St Theresa Road and is now grading Chiba Road, with Chanda Mukulu Road still to start.
Africa/World
South Africa's freight-rail reforms, the Lobito Corridor and a revived TAZARA line are redrawing Southern Africa's transport map, as President Hichilema pledges a further $1.6 billion recapitalisation of the Tanzania-Zambia railway.
Business & Economy
Zambia has reaffirmed its commitment to deeper economic cooperation with Burundi, with government citing scope to expand trade, investment, agriculture, mining, energy and tourism between the two countries.
Politics
President Hakainde Hichilema campaigned across the Copperbelt on jobs and free education, and pressed a contractor on stalled Kabwe roads, in a two-day swing before Zambia's 13 August general election, according to State House and Zambia News and Information Services.
Business & Economy
Vice-President Mutale Nalumango opened the 60th Zambia International Trade Fair in Ndola on President Hakainde Hichilema's behalf, delivering his appeal for Zambian businesses to back local content.
Politics
President Hakainde Hichilema pledged in Kapiri Mposhi that the recapitalisation of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority will be actualised at a cost of US$1.6 billion once he is re-elected, alongside a new dry port and long-promised road and water upgrades.
Business & Economy
President Hakainde Hichilema has pledged that a re-elected government will supply mining equipment to registered small-scale gold-mining cooperatives in Chitambo district, Central Province, part of a wider campaign push to formalise artisanal mining ahead of the 13 August election.
Health
Zambia's tuberculosis laboratories are validating new diagnostic devices, including the swab-based MiniDock, before wider rollout, health officials say, as GeneXpert costs and thin facility coverage strain the testing programme.
Sports/Entertainment
Morocco go into their World Cup quarter-final against France unbeaten in 34 matches, extending the continent's strongest showing at the tournament since the Atlas Lions reached the 2022 semi-final.
Courts
A group of 25 former mayors and council chairpersons, led by Duncan Kaonga, has filed a lawsuit in the Lusaka High Court seeking more than K153 million in alleged unpaid salaries, allowances and benefits from their time in local government office.
Local
Zambia Police Service says a 32-year-old Kitwe driver has been arrested after a Chinese national supervising an AVIC construction site was assaulted on the Mufulira–Mokambo Road on 28 June.
Politics
President Hakainde Hichilema has warned that illegal and unsafe mining risks fuelling armed militias in Zambia, as Zambia Army Special Forces are deployed to Kikonge Mine in Mufumbwe District in a crackdown on illegal mining.
Health
A treatment trial has begun in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak, where WHO figures reported by the BBC put confirmed cases at 1,406 and deaths at 438, with a further 301 cases suspected.
Business & Economy
Government has released K1.4 billion for the Social Cash Transfer programme’s May–June 2026 payment cycle, Permanent Secretary Angela Kawandami says, describing it as the latest in a series of disbursements this year.
Sports/Entertainment
Zambia's Under-17 Women's National Team hosts Ethiopia at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola on Saturday in the first leg of the final round of 2026 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup qualifiers, with kick-off at 15h00.
Business & Economy
The Ministry of Agriculture is preparing to roll out the Farmer Input Support Programme's E-Voucher system across all 116 districts for the 2026/2027 season, requiring agro-dealers to submit full documentation for vetting ahead of provincial training in July.
Politics
The Electoral Commission of Zambia says presidential ballot printing is on track at about 4.7 million of a targeted 9 million papers, and has dismissed allegations that extra, pre-marked ballots are being printed for selected constituencies ahead of the 13 August general election.
Politics
President Hakainde Hichilema urged Zambezi District residents to vote for the UPND in the 13 August election, saying the party's economic record — debt restructuring, a return to growth and a steadier kwacha — is reason to sustain it in government.
Sports/Entertainment
The Copper Queens will camp in Algeria and play two friendlies against the hosts on 19 and 22 July, the Football Association of Zambia said, sharpening Nora Häuptle's squad for a WAFCON 2026 run in Group C that carries a direct 2027 World Cup pathway.
Health
President Hichilema has announced plans for a University Teaching Hospital and a public university in Solwezi, which would be North-Western Province's first tertiary teaching facility. No cost, bed capacity, timeline or funding partner has been disclosed.
Markets
Citi says global investors have regained appetite for Zambia after the country exited default, with fresh interest in copper, energy and agriculture and new buyers arriving from the Middle East.
Politics
The South African public broadcaster Channel Africa reported that two people were killed in separate campaign-period incidents in Zambia, drawing a condemnation from President Hakainde Hichilema and a police pledge to enforce the law without fear or favour.
Politics
President Hakainde Hichilema carried the UPND re-election campaign into Mwinilunga and Solwezi on 1 July 2026, pressing a jobs-and-roads record and warning supporters not to back independent candidates ahead of the 13 August general election.
Business & Economy
The Japan-Zambia Investment Agreement will enter into force on 30 July 2026, extending treaty-level protection to Japanese investors in Zambia's copper and cobalt sectors and adding a de-risking layer as Lusaka races to triple copper output by 2031.