CHONGWE, Zambia—Benson Chipungu sits in a leather armchair and reaches for the remote to switch off the news. Pieces of fabric hang over the windows, darkening the room against the heat. A gas-powered ...

LUSAKA, Zambia — For a while, it looked like Zambia had achieved a status that almost any nation would envy. Drawing hydropower from the massive Zambezi River and its tributaries, the country could ...

Drying rice seed on a farm near Mongu, Zambia. Credit: Luke Olsen, S.J. In July, a group of farmers gathered in a small mission style chapel about two hours outside Mongu, the capital of Western ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Zambia faces growing challenges from climate-related natural disasters, particularly floods and droughts, which have become ...

Nine out of 10 citizens who have heard of climate change say it is making their lives worse. Key findings More than eight in 10 Zambians say that crop failure (85%) and droughts (82%) have grown more ...