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  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    Zambia says it has signed debt restructuring deal with China and India

    Deals with creditors are crucial to a $1.3bn IMF bailout

  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    Sovereign debt
    Zambia raises hopes it will complete long-delayed debt restructuring

    Finance minister says dispute over bondholder deal could be resolved in the first half of the year

  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Copper
    Bill Gates-backed mining company discovers vast Zambian copper deposit

    KoBold Metals’ discovery comes as US steps up African metals push to rival China’s dominance

    A truck at the Chibuluma copper mine
  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
    Global Economy
    Zambia’s comparability conundrum

    Creditor squabbles show that a rethink is necessary

  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
    Capital markets
    We should all be ‘very disappointed’ and ‘deeply concerned’ about Zambia’s debt predicament

    Bondholders SHOULD offer much more relief

  • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
    Bob Diamond
    Bob Diamond’s Atlas Mara sued over Zambian bank deal

    Lawsuit against lender co-founded by ex-Barclays chief alleges breach of acquisition terms

    Bob Diamond during a TV interview
  • Monday, 20 November, 2023
    Zambia’s debt restructuring derailed after official creditors reject deal

    Bondholders ‘very disappointed and extremely concerned’ over collapse in talks

    Workers in a shaft elevator in a mine in Zambia
  • Monday, 20 November, 2023
    Sovereign bonds
    Zambia’s bondholders are ‘very disappointed’ and ‘deeply concerned’

    CoT strikes back

  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    Zambia debt deal hits fresh hurdle over official sector concerns

    IMF and foreign governments express reservations over deal agreed with private creditors last month

  • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
    Zambia reaches deal for debt relief on $4bn owed to bondholders

    Investors will see 18% cut in face value of their bonds as three-year restructuring nears conclusion

    Traders pass a truck at Zambia’s border with DRC
  • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
    Sovereign debt
    Zambia’s byzantine restructuring ordeal is almost over

    We have a deal!

  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    Sovereign bonds
    Ten lessons from Zambia’s (incomplete) restructuring 

    Unfortunately, they might not apply elsewhere though

  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    Vedanta Resources PLC
    Vedanta to take back ownership of Zambian copper mine

    Indian group to invest $1bn over 5 years to revive KCM after it struggled under state ownership

    A miner using a machine to excavate copper ore
  • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
    The Big Read
    Zambia’s plan to dig its way out of debt with a copper revival

    With its former mining capital in disrepair, the central African nation is seeking new investment to help reverse its past mistakes

  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    Emerging market investing
    Distressed nations lead emerging market bond rally

    Progress in restructuring talks in Zambia and Sri Lanka has fuelled a broader rally in beaten-down assets

  • Friday, 23 June, 2023
    Zambia agrees ‘milestone’ debt relief plan with China and other creditors

    Agreement ends years of fraught talks and tackles roughly half of $13bn of external borrowing

    Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema:
  • Friday, 21 April, 2023
    HTSIThe HTSI wedding special 2023
    Four dreamy destinations for romantic getaways

    From quiet coastal Vietnam to a next-level safari in Zambia

    The plunge pool at KuKaya lodge
  • Monday, 13 February, 2023
    Zambian finance minister criticises creditor delays in debt restructuring

    Beijing’s demand that multilateral lenders should participate adds to delays

    Zambian finance minister Situmbeko Musokotwane
  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    China is ‘barrier’ to ending Zambian debt crisis, says Janet Yellen

    US Treasury secretary wants progress from Beijing on deal that has taken ‘far too long’ to resolve

    US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen is greeted by Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema in Lusaka on Monday
  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    US foreign policy
    Yellen to visit African countries as US steps up overtures

    Washington is seeking to entice nations away from financial and resource ties to China

    Janet Yellen with Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema
  • Saturday, 10 December, 2022
    Peter Hain
    Lead mining pollution in Zambia is an ESG test case

    Investors must decide where they sit in dispute over former Anglo American Kabwe mine

    The lead smelting plant at Kabwe, Zambia, in 1981
  • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
    Glencore
    Zambia questions ex-minister over alleged Glencore political payment

    Anti-Corruption Commission probe in African nation is latest headache for trading house

    A shaft at the Mopani Copper Mines in Zambia
  • Thursday, 6 October, 2022
    Global Economy
    Zambia’s chance to set the global financial architecture

    Where Lusaka leads, others will follow?

  • Wednesday, 7 September, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    EU wants tax to fight ‘astronomic’ electricity bills

    Zambia’s $1.3bn IMF bailout to test how China handles defaults

  • Tuesday, 6 September, 2022
    Zambia seeks $8bn debt relief

    Lusaka’s demand, after it secured an IMF bailout, will test China’s willingness to accept writedowns

    President Hakainde Hichilema’s government secured the $1.3bn IMF loan, two years after Zambia became the first African country to default in the pandemic
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