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Zambia: Climate Change to Cost Zambia U.S.$53 Million in Next Five Years - AfDB
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14 March 2014 Times of Zambia by Kennedy Mupeseni CLIMATE change will cost Zambia US$53 million in the next five years if measures are not put in place to minimise the impact, the African Development…
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U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation Takes Action on Zambia, Malawi, Mali
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27 March 2012 US Government IIP Digital - March 26, 2012 Washington — The U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) board of directors has voted to invest $350 million to help improve water infrastructure in Lusaka, Zambia. Describing water system challenges as “one of Zambia’s most binding constraints to economic growth,” the MCC reports that the agreement approved at a March 22 meeting aims to expand Lusaka’s water supply while also extending and improving water and sanitation networks. Decreasing flooding and providing more access to clean water and sanitation services are additional goals.…
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AfDB, others ink US$142m power deal for Zambia
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the 120-megawatt Itezhi Tezhi power project in Zambia. It is the first public-private partnership energy project in Zambia and is being developed jointly by TATA Africa and the Zambia Electricity Supply Company…
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Zambia gets US$80 million for Kazungula Bridge
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13 February 2012 Times of Zambia |February 11, 2012 The African Development Bank (AfDB) has given Zambia US$80 million(about K408 billion) to construct the long-awaited Kazungula Bridge which has been on the drawing board for over 40 years. The project scope is to replace the Zambezi River Pontoon which often inconveniences the public due to regular breakdowns. The total cost for the construction of the bridge is estimated at $ 259.3 billion and is being co financed by AfDB, the Japanese International Corporation Agency (JICA), Government and other donors. The bridge will link Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Read…
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Zambia wants to attract two billion USD of investments for infrastructures
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3 February 2011 Zambia has just announced its intention to attract two billion dollars in direct foreign investment in 2011 in order to develop its infrastructures. The Zambian Development Agency (ZDA) has announced that it will be focusing on the development of roads, railways and energies in order to stimulate economic development, reports the Zambia Daily Mail. Andrew Chipwende, director of the ZDA, told the Xinhua press agency on January 22 that it was crucial for Zambia to obtain the means to ensure that the influx of foreign investments in the construction of infrastructures continues.…
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Formatted brief Zambia RPP
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1 Smallholder farmers’ irrigation project, Zambia Z A M B I A S m a ll h o ld e r fa rm e rs ’ Ir ri g a ti o n p ro je c t Summary This is an irrigation project to serve a joint venture between a commercial farming enterprise and small- scale farmers in the Kafue district of Zambia. Small farmers lack the means to buy capital intensive irrigation equipment, and as a result their yields…
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Zambia: electricity demand could exceed supply by 2012
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22 June 2011 By 2012, energy needs in Zambia may exceed supply, says Hanson Sindowe, chief executive of the mining company Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC). He says the government will have to invest in this sector as a matter of urgency. "Projections show that demand will exceed the available capacity from 2012 until about 2015, when the first series of new-generation power stations come on line, with a bit of luck", Mr. Sindowe told the Xinhua press agency at a conference on mining and energy. He believes that Zambia needs to double its generating capacity over the next seven years…
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African Energy to operate uranium mine in Zambia
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8 September 2009 frican Energy Resources has announced its intention of taking its uranium mine at Chirundu in Zambia into operation as from 2010. Company CEO Frazer Tabeart told a press conference in Perth on Friday 4 September 2009 in Perth that an operating licence was pending. Engineers are currently carrying out a feasibility study. Chirundu may have a potential resource of 33,000 tonnes of uranium, which would allow for an operational period of five to six years. The Chirundu project involves two operational sites, Njame and Gwabe. Plans are for Njame to be taken into operation first,…
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Financing Renewable Energy in Africa Meeting - Lusaka, Zambia
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12 May 2016 The Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) is to support and help drive forward the African Development Bank’s ‘ Light Up and Power Africa ’ initiative at an event in Lusaka, Zambia on 26 May 2016. Timed to coincide with the African Development Bank’s annual meetings, which will take place between 23 and 27 May 2016, the Financing Renewable Energy in Africa meeting will bring together key public and private sector player to discuss the traditional and innovative funding available for financing renewable energy to meet Africa’s extensive energy needs. For more information…
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Angola, DRC and Zambia soon to be linked by railway
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the DRC and Zambia", he explained. This project should enable economic activity in the region to be stimulated by facilitating inter-State trade. In Tunisia, the newspaper La Presse reveals today that 58.7…