PRETORIA — The funeral company caught in the escalating legal dispute over former Zambian President Edgar Lungu’s remains has pushed back forcefully, arguing before the Pretoria High Court that the Lungu family created its own legal troubles and should bear the financial consequences. In court papers submitted ahead of Thursday’s highly anticipated hearing involving the Lungu family and the Zambian government, Two Mountains Burial Services (TMBS) dismissed allegations of contempt, instead accusing the family of withholding critical information, distorting the sequence of events, and unnecessarily deepening the crisis. TMBS’s intervention adds a dramatic new layer to an already explosive cross-border…
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On Wednesday, President Hakainde Hichilema officially started the shaft sinking project at Mingomba Mine in Chililabombwe. His government is calling this a historic moment in the country’s decades-long effort to regain its status as a global copper powerhouse. A 1.7-kilometer shaft is the main part of the project. It is an amazing piece of industrial engineering that will drill deep into high-grade copper and cobalt deposits. KoBold Metals, which is backed by Silicon Valley, and ZCCM-IH, which is the state investment arm, worked together to create this project. It is the largest investment of American money in Zambia’s mining sector,…
LUSAKA — Zambia’s Defense Minister has moved the country’s security partnership with the Democratic Republic of Congo from being just a military protocol to being a key part of the region’s economic goals. On Tuesday, during high-level talks in Lusaka with Guy Muadiamvita, DR Congo’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Defense Minister Ambrose Lufuma made that point clear. The two countries were trying to strengthen their partnership, which has been put to the test by instability on their shared border. Lufuma told his Congolese counterpart, “Zambia is ready to work closely with the Democratic Republic of Congo to…