Zambia
Izwe Loans Zambia Caps Multi-Year Transformation with Profit Growth, Cash Flow Turnaround
Izwe Loans Zambia Plc has successfully completed its transformation into a diversified, digital-first financial services provider, delivering robust audited results for the year ended 31 December 2025
Mar 20, 2026
Zimbabwe
Strong Volumes, Weak Prices: 2026 Tobacco Season Opens With a Divided Report Card
Zimbabwe's 2026 flue-cured virginia tobacco marketing season is ten days old, and the early data presents a picture that requires careful reading. By Day 10 to 17 March, the Tobacco Industry and Mark
Mar 19, 2026
Zimbabwe
TIMB Sets Tobacco Penalties of US$5,000: But Season's Own Numbers Reveal Where Real Challenge Lies
The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board has released a formal penalty schedule for illegal tobacco activities as Zimbabwe's 2026 flue-cured Virginia season gets underway, with merchants caught buying
Mar 19, 2026
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Waives Import Licences for Agricultural Equipment Spare Parts: A Small Reform With Large Practical Consequences
Zimbabwe's Cabinet has approved the waiver of the requirement for import licences for agricultural equipment spare parts imported for a farmer's own use on the 6th Cabinet Briefing held on the 17th of
Mar 18, 2026
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Introduces National Standard Price List: All Payments to Suppliers to Be Made in ZiG
Zimbabwe's Ministry of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion, together with the Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe, has announced on the 13th of March 2026 a National Standa
Mar 16, 2026
Zimbabwe
Government Bans Key Imports: Millers to Source 40% Locally by April 2026, 100% by 2028
imbabwe's Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development has enacted a regulation that, if implemented as written, will fundamentally restructure the country's entire grain and
Mar 16, 2026
Zambia
Airtel Deploys $107Mn in Network Expansion: 406 New Sites Added, Targets 95% Population Coverage
Airtel Networks Zambia, the country's largest mobile operator by revenue and subscriber base’s full year results for 2025 placed it firmly in the upper tier of sub-Saharan African telecommunications p
Mar 16, 2026
Zambia
Growing Faster, Earning Less: Bata's Revenue Surge Masks Profit Warning Hidden in Inventory
Zambia Bata Shoe Company PLC, the country's oldest and most recognisable footwear manufacturer and retailer, has reported full year results for 2025 that present one of the more instructive paradoxes
Mar 16, 2026
Zambia
Revenue Down, Losses Doubled: Puma's Results Expose Hidden Cost of a Stronger Kwacha
Puma Energy Zambia, the country's listed downstream fuel distributor and one of the most recognisable names at the Zambian pump, has reported full year results for 2025 that lay bare a business under
Mar 15, 2026
Zambia
Selling Itself to Survive: Decoding Standard Chartered Zambia's 2025 Performance
Standard Chartered Bank Zambia, the country's oldest international lender and one of the most recognisable names in its corporate banking landscape, has reported full year results for 2025 that tell t
Mar 15, 2026
Companies
More Duty, Less Revenue: How Zambia's Tobacco Crackdown Built a Black Market Instead
BAT Zambia, the country's only listed tobacco manufacturer and the dominant player in Zambia's formal cigarette market, has reported a year in which profit grew but the business shrank, a paradox that
Mar 14, 2026
Top Stories
Dairibord’s Milk Recovery Hinges on Chipinge Restart as Capacity Returns After Disruption
Dairibord now enters a recovery phase where operational constraints have largely been removed. The Chipinge restart is not simply a return to normal production. It is a reset of capacity, cost structu
16 hours agoStrong Profits, Hidden Trap: How One Government Sentence Threatens Proplastics' 2026 Margins
Proplastics Limited, the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed manufacturer of plastic piping systems that underpin water infrastructure, sanitation, irrigation, and construction across Zimbabwe, has report
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