Zambia Seeks US Minerals Deal
Zambia is negotiating a critical minerals agreement with the United States after successfully decoupling it from a separate health funding pact. The foreign minister confirmed the separation during a signing ceremony for the US health funding.
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Zambia is negotiating a critical minerals agreement with the United States after separating the framework from a $1.5B health funding pact, foreign minister Mulambo Haimbe said during an afternoon signing ceremony. The separation removes a linkage that previously stalled talks over American access to domestic resource reserves. Zambia remains the second-largest producer of Copper in Sub-Saharan Africa.
