NEWS ANALYSIS: Zambian leader Edgar Lungu repeats past errors with attack on copper miners
Zambia’s Chamber of Mines warns copper output could fall as much as 100,000 tonnes in 2019 as operators ‘cannot afford to continue producing as before’
29 May 2019 - 16:36
London — Relations between the Zambian government and its copper-mining sector have just taken a turn for the worse.
"If it is the will of the Zambian people that we divorce with these mines, then we will do so."..
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