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Chinese Premier Visits Zambia Amid Geopolitical Competition
Chinese Premier Li Qiang is in Zambia, the first high-level Chinese leader to visit the country since 2007. His trip comes as the country emerges from a years-long financial crisis Li’s visit comes as China, Zambia, and Tanzania embark on ...
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Zambia is Very Close to Finalizing Its Debt Restructuring, But There’s Still One More Chinese Obstacle in the Way
Zambia's breakthrough deal on Monday to restructure $3 billion of Eurobond debt helps the southern African country move tantalizingly close to finally ending three years of brutal negotiations with its various creditors. Even though President Haikinde Hichilema's government has already negotiated a ...
Zambia, DRC to Build New Road to Expedite Copper/Cobalt Exports Via Tanzania
Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema and the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Félix Tshisekedi laid the foundation stone for a new 345-meter bridge over the Luapula River that divides their two countries as part of an ambitious new road project that will make it a lot easier to transport copper ...
Zambian President Haikinde Hichilema Does the Rounds of Shenzhen’s Tech Giants
Zambian President Haikinde Hichilema devoted the third day of his week-long China tour to visiting some of the country's largest tech companies headquartered in the southern megacity of Shenzhen. The president visited the headquarters of internet giant Tencent, automaker BYD and ...
Forget About Everything Else, Hichilema’s in China to Resolve Zambia’s Still Unfinished Debt Restructuring Deal
Zambian President Haikinde Hichilema is spending much of this week visiting Chinese business hubs in Shenzhen and Shanghai, but the real focus of this trip will be dealt with later in Beijing, where he will tackle the sensitive issue of debt. ...
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Chinese Premier Visits Zambia Amid Geopolitical Competition
Chinese Premier Li Qiang is in Zambia, the first high-level Chinese leader to visit the country since 2007. His trip comes as the country emerges from a years-long financial crisis Li’s visit comes as China, Zambia, and Tanzania embark on ...
Zambia is Very Close to Finalizing Its Debt Restructuring, But There’s Still One More Chinese Obstacle in the Way
Zambia's breakthrough deal on Monday to restructure $3 billion of Eurobond debt helps the southern African country move tantalizingly close to finally ending three years of brutal negotiations with its various creditors. Even though President Haikinde Hichilema's government has already negotiated a ...
Zambia, DRC to Build New Road to Expedite Copper/Cobalt Exports Via Tanzania
Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema and the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Félix Tshisekedi laid the foundation stone for a new 345-meter bridge over the Luapula River that divides their two countries as part of an ambitious new road project that will make it a lot easier to transport copper ...
Zambian President Haikinde Hichilema Does the Rounds of Shenzhen’s Tech Giants
Zambian President Haikinde Hichilema devoted the third day of his week-long China tour to visiting some of the country's largest tech companies headquartered in the southern megacity of Shenzhen. The president visited the headquarters of internet giant Tencent, automaker BYD and ...
Forget About Everything Else, Hichilema’s in China to Resolve Zambia’s Still Unfinished Debt Restructuring Deal
Zambian President Haikinde Hichilema is spending much of this week visiting Chinese business hubs in Shenzhen and Shanghai, but the real focus of this trip will be dealt with later in Beijing, where he will tackle the sensitive issue of debt. ...
Zambia’s Landmark Debt Deal Highlights China’s Success in Setting New Rules for Development Finance
Zambian President Haikinde Hichilema looked visibly relieved following Friday's announcement that the country's creditor committee had finally reached an agreement to restructure $6.3 billion of bilateral external debt. The deal that took more than two years to finalize was unveiled by ...
Hichilema Refutes Western Accusations China Was to Blame for Delays in Zambia’s Debt Restructuring
Zambian President Haikinde Hichilema rejected longstanding accusations by Western governments and institutions that China was to blame for how long it took to reach a debt restructuring agreement. The president told Bloomberg TV after the deal was announced on Friday in ...
Debt Standoff At IMF, World Bank Spring Meetings
Finance ministers from around the world have descended on Washington DC for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s Spring Meetings. The Chinese government has confirmed that a top-level Chinese delegation will attend in person -- the first time since the COVID pandemic.
Harris Arrives in Zambia Where China Questions Will Loom Much Larger Than in Ghana
U.S. Vice President landed in Zambia on Wednesday for the second leg of a three-nation, week-long Africa tour. During her first stop in Ghana, the Vice President assiduously tried to avoid any reference to China despite persistent questions from the traveling ...
Two-Day China-Zambia Investment Forum Gets Underway in Lusaka
Zambian President Haikinde Hichilema, alongside Chinese ambassador Du Xiaohui opened a two-day investment forum on Wednesday in the capital Lusaka that aims to bring together businesses from both countries and generate more FDI. In all, 300 companies are participating in the ...
Xi, Hichilema Speak Amid New Allegations China’s “Rookie Status” is Slowing Zambia’s Debt Restructuring Process
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema raised the sensitive issue of his country's burgeoning debt crisis during a phone call on Tuesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping. President Hichilema, according to a statement on his official Facebook page, ...