What Could Derail Liuwa Plain, Bangweulu and Community Conservation?
Remoteness is what makes Zambia's wetland destinations valuable, and remoteness is what could sink them. The same distance that keeps Liuwa Plain and Bangweulu wild - far from cities, roads and reliable power - is the distance that makes them expensive to run and hard...
What Could Derail Liuwa Plain, Bangweulu and Community Conservation?
Remoteness is what makes Zambia's wetland destinations valuable, and remoteness is what could sink them. The same distance that keeps Liuwa Plain and Bangweulu wild - far from cities, roads and reliable power - is the distance that makes them expensive to run and hard...
The US$200m Holiday: How Zambia’s Fuel-Tax Relief Burned Through the Treasury
Cutting taxes on fuel is the easiest popular decision a government can make and one of the hardest to unwind. Zambia has just totalled the bill. Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane said suspending VAT and excise duty on petroleum products cost the Treasury about...
The Cobalt Gap: Why Zambia Exported More Than It Mined, 2019–2024
An economy cannot export more of a metal than it digs out of the ground — unless the accounting, the stockpiles or the supply chain are telling more than one story. Zambia appears to have done exactly that. Mines Minister Paul Kabuswe told Parliament the country...
The Governance Test Behind Lower Zambezi: Tourism, Conservation and Development Pressure
Zambia is rarely forced to choose between two forms of prosperity. In the Lower Zambezi, it is. The valley that draws safari operators, anglers, photographers and lodge investors sits on ground that extractive investment would also like to reach. Both routes promise...
What Could Derail Liuwa Plain, Bangweulu and Community Conservation?
Remoteness makes Zambia’s Liuwa and Bangweulu valuable and vulnerable. High operating costs, fragile access, who loses first and the reforms required.
The US$200m Holiday: How Zambia’s Fuel-Tax Relief Burned Through the Treasury
Zambia’s suspension of VAT and excise on fuel cost the Treasury about US$200m, as Musokotwane urged disciplined fiscal policy and warned of an energy-crisis
The Cobalt Gap: Why Zambia Exported More Than It Mined, 2019–2024
Zambia produced 1,401 tonnes of cobalt from 2019 to 2024 but exported about 1,876.7 — a gap rooted in by-product geology, weak copper output and data
The Governance Test Behind Lower Zambezi: Tourism, Conservation and Development Pressure
Zambia’s Lower Zambezi pits short-term extractive investment against a lasting tourism landscape. The trade-off, the excluded and the reforms the valley needs.
Reborn in Kabwe: How a US$140m Bet Links Cotton Farms to Mulungushi’s Looms
Mulungushi Textiles reopened in Kabwe on a US$140m investment, linking 2,500 cotton farmers to 500+ mill jobs and military and health-worker uniform orders.
Lights On: How Zambia’s 24-Hour Economy Unlocks Logistics — and Fuel-Price Risk
Zambia lifted its night-travel ban on trucks and buses on 1 April 2026 to power a 24-hour economy, unlocking logistics gains shadowed by fuel-price risk.
Chinese zones: A modest base for Africa’s export story
Chinese industrial zones are cast as engines of Africa’s export ambitions, but the recorded jobs and investment are modest, and the zones matter more as a template than a triumph.
Industrial parks: Value-chain infrastructure, or just serviced land
Industrial parks are sold as value-chain infrastructure, but a fenced plot with power and a road is only real estate until firms cluster and a supply chain forms inside it.
Trade fairs as pipelines: turning expo handshakes into SME orders
A four-day expo can announce billions in deals. The harder question is how many of those handshakes survive contact with shipping schedules, payment terms and a small firm’s first export.
Made in Africa, sold to China: why zero tariffs are only the doorway
China has thrown the door open to African goods. Walking through it with finished products, rather than raw ore, is the harder task that no tariff schedule can do for the continent.
China’s vanishing factory jobs: Africa’s chance, if it can catch them
The World Bank has floated 85 million manufacturing jobs leaving China as wages rise. Whether Africa captures a meaningful share is a question of readiness, not destiny.
Diamniadio: Senegal’s bet that a Chinese garment line can build an industry
Senegal spent about US$44m on a park outside Dakar and pinned 23,000 jobs on it. The first anchor tenant is a Chinese factory sewing T-shirts for the American market.
Huajian in Ethiopia: A Shoemaker as the Test Case for Industrial Linkage
A Chinese shoe firm exporting Ethiopian-made footwear to the US and Europe is the model linkage story – and the clearest evidence of how hard local sourcing actually is.
Private Chinese Parks: Ethiopia’s Export Bet, Built Largely by Outsiders
Ethiopia’s drive to become Africa’s top manufacturer leans on private, often Chinese-owned zones. They have delivered factories and exports – and a dependence on foreign developers to build them.
Eastern Industrial Zone: A Chinese Park Counted in Jobs, Not Just Square Metres
A Chinese-built park 35km from Addis Ababa was meant to seed 20,000 local jobs. By late 2017 it had created roughly 10,000 – a real number, and a measure of the distance left to travel.
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