Africa: How a Canadian Mining Giant Infiltrated Zambia’s Democracy

A Global Witness investigation finds evidence that First Quantum Minerals and its associates have run a decades-long covert influence campaign over Zambia’s democracy, bankrolling President Hichilema, with revenues diverted away from the copper-rich nation’s indebted economy and its people

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Since August 2021, when businessman Hakainde Hichilema was elected Zambia’s president, the copper-rich African nation has been…