Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine that poisoned ...

Unbelievable. Overnight, this river died.” About 60% of Zambia’s 20 million people live in the Kafue River basin and depend on it in some way as a source of fishing, irrigation for agriculture ...

The catastrophic failure of a tailings dam at Sino Metals’ Chambishi mine in Zambia ’s Copperbelt, releasing over 50 million litres of acidic effluent into the Mwambashi River, has reignited concerns ...

About 60% of Zambia’s 20 million people live in the Kafue River basin and depend on it in some way as a source of fishing, irrigation for agriculture, and water for industry. The river supplies ...

Intense Chinese and Western interest in Zambia's copper resources, however, has renewed the promise of using the mineral to lift people out of poverty, free the country from debt and meet its ...

“The Zambian government should be protecting people from highly hazardous activities, not enabling them,” said Kippenberg. Zambia’s economy was built on mining. But more than a century later ...