Cabanga TV is live: watch how Zambian coffee found a new market
A Boer goat farm, a microloan start-up, local entrepreneurs taking on the chains and a Malawian nurse turned farmer are among the stories now free to watch. LUSAKA, 17 October 2026 - Zambia is only beginning to scale its coffee, and it has already found a fast-growing...
Cabanga TV is live: watch how Zambian coffee found a new market
A Boer goat farm, a microloan start-up, local entrepreneurs taking on the chains and a Malawian nurse turned farmer are among the stories now free to watch. LUSAKA, 17 October 2026 - Zambia is only beginning to scale its coffee, and it has already found a fast-growing...
Fewer Bottlenecks: The Grid Dividends of Zambia’s Energy Swap
A power deal is usually sold on the megawatts it adds. The more telling number is often the losses it removes. Zambia's debt-for-energy swap is being pitched not only on new generation but on the unglamorous gains downstream: stronger distribution networks, fewer...
Ten Systems That Turn a Solo Cleaner Into a Company
A solo cleaner hits a ceiling made of hours. There are only so many houses one pair of hands can clean in a week, and no amount of effort moves that wall. Becoming a company means the work happening without you in the room, and that is a systems problem, not an effort...
African-Owned: Why GreenCo’s Debt-for-Energy Swap Could Spread Across the Continent
Most African energy financing arrives wearing someone else's name. A donor's, a multilateral's, a foreign utility's. Zambia's debt-for-energy swap is built to read differently. Coordinated by GreenCo Power Services and supported by the African Development Bank, the...
Cabanga TV is live: watch how Zambian coffee found a new market
A Boer goat farm, a microloan start-up, local entrepreneurs taking on the chains and a Malawian nurse turned farmer are among the stories now free to watch. LUSAKA, 17 October 2026 - Zambia is only beginning to scale its coffee, and it has already found a fast-growing...
Fewer Bottlenecks: The Grid Dividends of Zambia’s Energy Swap
Beyond new megawatts, Zambia’s debt-for-energy swap promises grid dividends: stronger distribution, fewer technical losses, new connections and drought
Ten Systems That Turn a Solo Cleaner Into a Company
One cleaner can only clean so many houses. A company is built from ten simple systems that let the work happen without the founder in the room. Here is the blueprint.
African-Owned: Why GreenCo’s Debt-for-Energy Swap Could Spread Across the Continent
Coordinated by GreenCo Power Services and backed by the AfDB, Zambia’s debt-for-energy swap is built on African ownership and designed to be copied across the
Six Stages From Buying Chemicals to Your Own Cleaning Line
Making cleaning product is a ladder, not a leap. Here is how a Zambian service operator can move from buying chemicals to a branded line without betting the business on a factory.
Cleaning Is a Supply Chain With a Factory at One End
Cleaning looks like labour, but behind every cloth is a detergent plant and a supply chain. How local manufacturing moves the sector up the value chain in Zambia.
Eight Moves That Make a Cleaning Business One Institutions Will Buy From
Zambia’s formalisation programme calls registration the least of it. Eight moves – records, banking, contracts, market access – build the operating system institutions can buy from.
Register the Cleaning Business for a Reason, Not a Rule
Most Zambian cleaning firms start as one woman with a bucket. When does registering with PACRA, ZRA and NAPSA stop being paperwork and start unlocking growth?
MUSIKA launches a Managed Sourcing Desk for Zambian Businesses
Agricultural, construction and industrial buyers can submit requirements for South African supply and coordinated fulfilment. Musika launches today for Zambian businesses sourcing goods from South Africa. The platform combines a catalogue with a procurement desk that...
The Cobalt Math: How Stock Draw-Downs Outpaced Zambia’s Production
Zambia exported 1,876.7 tonnes of cobalt against 1,401 tonnes produced from 2019-24. The gap exposes by-product dependence, re-exports and the beneficiation
Dr. John Alpha Arufandika: Why Africa Needs AI That Speaks Its Own Languages
Dr John Alpha Arufandika, founder of Aptiva AI and winner of the 2025 LIST Emerging Technologies Impact Award, is building secure, private AI in fourteen Southern African languages. African businesses are adopting artificial intelligence at speed, and most of it is...
US$10 Billion In: How Mining Capital Is Chasing Zambia’s 3 Mt Copper Target
Mines Minister Kabuswe says US$10bn in mining investment flowed into Zambia from 2022–26 toward a 3 Mt copper goal by 2031; 2025 output hit 890,346 tonnes, up
Five Questions Before You Start Selling the Detergent You Clean With
A cleaning firm sells labour; a shop sells stock. Before a cleaning business in Zambia starts selling the products it uses, five questions decide whether the move deepens margins or drains cash.
The cleaning supply chain is far bigger than detergent
Detergent is only one corner of it. Professional cleaning rests on four supply markets, and in Zambia each – chemicals, equipment, consumables, protective wear – is its own opening.
Six cleaning services you can start before buying a single machine
You do not need a truck-mounted extractor to start cleaning for money in Zambia. Six labour-led services that earn before you ever spend on heavy equipment.