Zambia’s domestic tourism faces a hard ceiling: transport costs and thin disposable income. Who wins, who is excluded, and the reforms the trade-off demands.
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Cabanga Africa Launches Musika, a Verified B2B Sourcing Platform for SADC Businesses
Buyers post a requirement and receive one landed price from a verified supplier, with the border, paperwork and carrier carried on a single invoice There is a specific hour that every cross-border trader in Southern Africa knows. You have a buyer. You have a price....
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.