How Zambia uses trade, investment promotion and diplomacy to reposition itself in the global economy, from the Lobito Corridor to critical minerals.
Vedanta's Konkola grew 367% in 2025. Mopani grew 40%. Kansanshi grew 5%. Mapping the foreign investors behind Zambia's copper recovery and what each is betting on.
Copper futures are near a two-month high as US buyers stockpile ahead of a tariff decision. CIPS Global CEO Ben Farrell says Zambia's three-million-tonne ambition will hinge on…
Outside Zambia, the election is read as a decision about a strategic copper supply. Why that is true, what the export data hides, and what observers watch.
Much of what Zambia counts as diversification is unprocessed minerals under another name. What the numbers actually show, and where diplomacy converts into diversified exports.
Rail carries 0.4 percent of Zambia export value. That single number frames the country strategic position better than any foreign policy statement.
Zambia does not have an access problem. It has a conversion problem. What economic diplomacy is, what machinery Zambia has, and the five reforms that would make it…
