路透社报道称赞比亚铜产量由去年的708000吨增至2015年的711515吨，主要归因于加拿大第一量子矿产的一个新矿，矿业协会周五说到。
由于第一消费国——中国的经济增长速度减慢，导致赞比亚供电不足而且铜价下跌，这给赞比亚的矿业造成了压力，危及南非各国的矿产量，就业机会和经济增长，也使得赞比亚的货币相对美元贬值。
赞比亚这一年来在矿产税收方面的政策也触发了人们对矿业公司的关注，迫使他们暂停在矿业的主要资本投资和一些新项目的开展。
然而，在去年十二月，一个政府官员说到赞比亚会针对矿业税收根据金属价格采用可调整税。
Reuters reports that Zambia’s copper production inched higher to 711,515 tons in 2015 from 708,000 tons the previous year mainly due to a new mine owned by Canada’s First Quantum Minerals, the Chamber of Mines said on Friday.
An electricity shortage and weaker copper prices due to slower growth by top consumer China have piling pressure on Zambia’s mining industry, threatening output, jobs and economic growth in the southern African nation, and put its currency on the back foot against the dollar.
Zambia’s policy flip-flops on royalty taxes during the year also caused concern among mining firms, forcing them to suspended major capital investment in mines or new projects.
However, a government spokesman said in December Zambia would introduce a variable tax on mineral royalties that will be adjusted according to metal prices.
约翰•阿里格昂比 内罗比（肯尼亚首都）报导
肯尼亚政府计划在接下来的六个月里削减1%的国内生产总值，以控制不断膨胀的财政赤字，并缓冲新兴市场的波动。
肯尼亚削减开支的决定与南非试图减少政府开支的决定相互映射。加纳（西非国家）在国际货币基金组织的帮助下也开始减少财政赤字。
与此相反，尼日利亚决定为了促进经发展而增加开销，同时，乌干达和赞比亚的领导者们今年正面临大选，也正增加政府的开销。
John Aglionby in Nairobi
The Kenyan government plans to cut spending by 1 per cent of gross domestic product in the next six months as it seeks to rein in its ballooning budget deficit and create “buffers” to counter emerging market turbulence.
Kenya’s decision to cut its budget mirrors that of South Africa, which is also trying to reduce public sector spending. Ghana, with help from the International Monetary Fund, is seeking to reduce its budget deficit.
In contrast, Nigeria has decided to increase spending in a bid to boost growth while leaders in Uganda and Zambia, which both face elections this year, are also lifting government spending.
2015年3月13日《福布斯》报道
丹格特集团在赞比亚投资的一个价值4亿美元的水泥厂将在三月底之前投入运营，据卢萨卡时报报导。
阿里科•丹格特是非洲最富有的人，也是丹格特集团的所有者，周四在恩多拉市西蒙曼萨开普维普维国际机场的出发口，他对一些记者说，正要试运营的水泥厂位于铜带的马赛蒂区，但因为洪水和尚未得到赞比亚环境管理署（ZEMA）的先决允许而推迟了试运营时间。
一旦开始运营，丹格特水泥厂将达到一百五十万吨的年产量，并且将会创造至少一千个工作机会。
同时，丹格特集团在奇兰嘎建了另外一个水泥厂，奇兰嘎是距赞比亚首都卢萨卡南部20公里的一个小镇。据估计，建造奇兰嘎水泥厂将投入4.2亿美元。
丹格特说，“我们在卢萨卡的工厂运营得不错，而且我们已经获准开采矿产，所以我们很可能在那儿建一个和马赛蒂水泥厂一样的工厂。”
阿里科•丹格特在过去5年里一直是非洲最富有的人。他现有的财富来源于对水泥，糖和面粉的投资，据估计已经达到159亿美元。
MAR 13, 2015 Forbes
A $400 million cement plant in Zambia owned by Dangote Group will be commissioned and commence operations by the end of March, according to a report by the Lusaka Times.
Speaking to a group of Journalists on Thursday at departure at Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport in Ndola, Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man and owner of the Dangote Group, said that the commissioning of the new cement plantwhich is located in Masaiti district in the Copperbelt, had been delayed as a result of flooding and a delay in getting the requisite permits from the Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA).
Once operational, the Dangote Cement Plant will have a production capacity of 1.5 million tonnes annually and will create at least 1,000 jobs.
Meanwhile, Dangote is constructing another Cement Plant in Chilanga, a small town 20 km south of Zambia’s capital city, Lusaka. The cement plant in Chilanga will cost an estimated $420 million.
“We have made good progress on the plant in Lusaka, we have already got permission to get into the land and start mining, so hopefully the same contractor might move there and build an identical plant with the one in Masaiti,” Dangote said.
Aliko Dangote has been Africa’s richest man for the past 5 years. His current fortune is estimated at $15.9 billion derived from investments in cement, sugar and flour.
卢萨卡：赞比亚希望通过这周在约翰尼斯堡举行的中非峰会获得中国十亿的投资和贷款，一个总统发言人在周二说到。
总统发言人阿莫斯•钱达说赞比亚最终有望与中国进行基础设施建设工程方面的贸易，例如公路，铁路，发电和农业。
赞比亚也很可能和中国签订协议建造两家现代化的医院，钱达说。“这些交易加起来总额超过十亿，”他告诉路透社。
在过去十年间，中国公司在南非矿产和其他行业投资甚大，据中国大使馆统计，2014年的投资已经超过30亿。电力短缺和铜价下跌给赞比亚的矿业造成了巨大的压力，这可是非洲第二大铜矿生产国，产量惊人，工作机会和经济增长前景可观。
中国计划接下来的五年在一个免除关税的经济区再投资9亿美元。
LUSAKA: Zambia expects to clinch $1 billion in Chinese investment and loans at this week’s China-Africa summit in Johannesburg, a presidential spokesman said on Tuesday.
Presidential spokesman Amos Chanda said Zambia was expected to conclude deals with China in infrastructure projects such as roads, railways, power generation as well as agriculture.
Zambia and China were also likely to sign an agreement for the construction of two modern hospitals, Chanda said.
” These deals should add up to over $1 billion,” he told Reuters.
Chinese firms have invested heavily in mining and other sectors in the southern African nation over the last 10 years with investment exceeding $3 billion in 2014, according to latest Chinese embassy estimates.
An electricity shortage and weaker copper prices have put pressure on Zambia’s mining industry, threatening output, jobs and economic growth in Africa’s No. 2 copper producer.
China plans to invest a further $900 million over the next five years in an economic zone, where firms would be exempted from some taxes such as customs duties.
国家能源部长多拉• 希利亚说，赞比亚大部分地区因为停电而陷入黑暗之中。
在一条脸书里，她说这次断电是设备故障造成，全国只有南部和西部由维多利亚大瀑布附近的水电站供电的省份没有受到影响。
这次事故是12月11日断电的重演。赞比亚，一个依靠水力发电的国家，降雨量十分不稳定。
而140万住在首都卢萨卡的老百姓现在正遭罪——去年十月的无常雨季一直持续到了今年三月。
Much of Zambia has been plunged into darkness by a power cut, the country’s Energy Minister Dora Siliya has said.
In a message on Facebook she said the blackout was caused by faulty equipment and that only the Southern and Western provinces – supplied by a hydroelectric power plant at the Victoria Falls – were unaffected.
The incident is a repeat of a similar blackout on 11 December. Zambia – a hydroelectric-dependent country – has had erratic rainfall.
The 1.4 million people who live in the capital Lusaka are suffering after an inconsistent rainy season from last October to March this year.